Joseph Haydn spent three decades of his life perfecting his art at the Esterhazy Palace, south of Vienna. Music is still performed at the Palace and The Haydn Trio Eisenstadt is one of the groups that ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. More Bavouzet – and more delights, as the French pianist continues his admirable survey of the 50-plus Haydn piano ...

If it weren’t for Mozart, Franz Joseph Haydn would be the most famous composer of the Classical era. And yet, Haydn and Mozart were friends and mutual admirers, and Beethoven studied composition with ...

The Lysander Piano Trio are Grand Prize winners of the Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition and the Concert Artists Guild ...

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Austrian composer Joseph Haydn. Haydn spent much of his career in service to nobility, situated far away from the musical mainstream. He once said ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the course of 2023 a select number of big recording projects came to fruition, prime among them Jean-Efflam ...

Spirited and virtuosic performances of Haydn's best-known piano concertos. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 15 September 2014. The French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has already won critical acclaim ...

Compare the openings of Brahms’s two piano concertos and you'd be mistaken for thinking they were by different composers. The earlier work begins with the fiercest of orchestral growls, the piano ...

BBC Legends are unstinting where Sviatoslav Richter is concerned and this two­CD set is taken from recitals given between 1967­69 in Aldeburgh‚ London and Manchester. This was a time when Richter was ...

Ekaterina Derzhavina's name was new to me, but this 9-CD set of Haydn's complete piano sonatas should broaden her recognition considerably. Her playing is elegant, stylish, and above all imaginative, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Haydn piano sonatas, a Shostakovich explosion and the fantastical opera “Sweet Land” are among the highlights. Paul Lewis (Harmonia Mundi) Not all ...