The first of Haydn's Esterhazy symphonies, in Le Matin nothing is taken for granted, and its musical structure is full of startling moments How else should the most productive period of symphonic ...

Prior to this, the earliest effort to lay down a complete recording came early in the 1960s, when Max Goberman managed to issue 45 symphonies with the Vienna State Opera Orchestra on his own Library ...

Acide e Galatea, Movements: Overture (pub 1959) Joseph Haydn, Composer Manfred Huss, Conductor Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta (Lo) Speziale Manfred Huss, Conductor Joseph Haydn, Composer Vienna Haydn ...

Austrian composer Joseph Haydn wrote over 100 symphonies, and almost as many string quartets, more than 50 keyboard sonatas, 14 masses, and 32 ‘pieces for mechanical clock’! Here are his 10 best.

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 ...

Stephen Moss by the Welcome to Eisenstadt (Haydnstadt) sign, Austria. Photograph: David Levene/Guardian Joseph Haydn's problem is that he didn't die young or go deaf. He survived until he was 77 and ...

The easiest way for amateur music lovers to get to know orchestral pieces used to be through piano transcriptions and chamber arrangements. Liszt’s versions of Beethoven symphonies are the genre’s ...