Mozart wrote many concertos, Haydn a mere handful. The reasons are fairly obvious - Haydn was not a virtuoso himself, and his secure gig with the Eszterhazy family meant that he didn't have to compete ...

On period instruments the wind concertos of the classical era take on a different personality. The plush uniformity of modern instruments is replaced by solo playing of quirky charisma. In Mozart’s ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Helmut Müller-Brühl, Conductor Joseph Haydn, Composer Cologne Chamber Orchestra Augustin Hadelich, Violin Concerto for Violin and Strings Helmut Müller-Brühl, ...

Concertos for what? The Lire Organizzate was a hybrid street instrument popular in the late 1700s that pitched up somewhere between a hurdy gurdy and a chamber organ. The instrument was beloved of ...

Joseph Haydn was an Austrian musician who spent most of his career in the service of an aristocratic family in Hungary but became one of the most famous and well-respected composers of his time. As ...

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 ...

Concerto for Keyboard and Orchestra Marc-André Hamelin, Musician, Piano Joseph Haydn, Composer Bernard Labadie, Conductor (Les) Violons du Roy, Québec Concerto for Keyboard and Orchestra Bernard ...

For the lucky few in the audiences at Prince Esterházy’s palace in the mid-18th century every musical evening brought forth new delights from the pen of Haydn, court Kapellmeister. Il Pomo d’Oro, a ...

Haydn's violin concertos are a bit of a puzzle. He composed four in all, of which the Second is lost. The First was written in 1765 for one Luigi Tomasini, an Italian violinist at the Esterháza court.