Franz Joseph Haydn never gets the attention he deserves. His friend Mozart and his student Beethoven tend to soak up most of the spotlight, but neither of those guys is called the “father” of anything ...

Haydn’s symphonies–104 in all, produced over a four-decade span–chart the growth of a facile compositional mind as well as a genre that would become the foundation of the classical canon. Even the ...

There were many lovely moments in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s concert Thursday night. With music director Fabio Luisi ...

The music of Mozart and Haydn is rarely as simple as it looks, and indeed, much of it is riddled with enough traps to trip up unwary performers. Some try to sidestep the land mines by making ...

Three distinctive Haydn symphonies, all in the key of D, all given taut, bracing, urgently propelled performances. Even the famous tick-tocking slow movement from No 101, the Clock, moves at quite a ...

Throughout the week Classic FM’s presenters bring you the best new recordings, including world exclusives and premiere broadcasts of latest releases. This week: Live in Concert - Haydn and Mozart by ...

For the second week running, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra's (SSO) concert programme did not include a concerto or guest soloist, with German conductor Claus Peter Flor and orchestra choosing ...

Maestro John Mason Hodges leads MSO in Time & Remembrance. - Experience Mendelssohn’s evocative Fingal’s Cave Overture, ...

The symphonies Haydn wrote for his two London visits in the early 1790s were the summation of a long career, bringing him the international celebrity his work for the Esterházy family had denied him.

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