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 ...

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 ...

Joseph Haydn is every bit the equal of Mozart and Beethoven but loses out in popular appeal because he was so prolific. Very few of his invariably excellent pieces stand out from the crowd the way ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. For most of us a standard diary, or a five-year one at best, is sufficient for booking engagements. Imagine having ...

A complete cycle of Haydn’s 104 symphonies on period instruments has always seemed just out of reach. After two earlier cycles were aborted part way through Decca decided to bring those together and ...

HAYDN: Symphonies Nos. 93-98. George Szell conducting The Cleveland Orchestra. Sony Classical 8869748904-2: two CDs. Certain recordings deserve to remain in the catalogue indefinitely, and these ...

Drive Featured Album, from 21 September 2015 after 6pm. This is the first of two recordings in which Robin Ticciati and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra present an overview of Haydn's symphonies. For ...

A vibrant new recording under the direction of Harry Christophers. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 26 August 2013. In Harry Christophers’ expert hands, Haydn comes to life in this, the first in a ...

Aficionados of Adám Fischer’s revisiting of Haydn’s ‘London’ Symphonies will know what to expect from this final instalment. His nimble chamber band fields a lean string section that nevertheless ...

Joyous, rambunctious, and infectious; pert and alert here, swaggering and swinging there: Thomas Fey and his trusty Heidelberg band deliver Haydn like none other. The unknown L’incontro improvviso ...

Change is brewing in Boston. In his 13th year of effervescent music-making, the 2021-22 season marks the last for Harry Christophers leading the Handel and Haydn Society. Who will be its next artistic ...