Haydn, Violin Concertos, Midori Seiler, violin and conductor with the Concerto Koln. (Berlin Classics). Haydn’s music, though the work of a master, often has to be “sold” in a kind of special way. Our ...

Franz Joseph Haydn was a prolific composer of symphonies, chamber music and vocal works but wrote relatively few concertos. Experts have authenticated only three for keyboard, and they have generally ...

Pianist Marc- Andre Hamelin, who has been praised for his performances of Haydn’s piano sonatas, has recorded the composer’s three most popular concertos. This release, featuring dazzling technique, ...

An important reissue of a recording originally released in the early 1970s is made even more compelling by the booklet, in which pianist Roger Woodward recalls the time he spent working with the ...

Cellphone ringing has become a commonplace annoyance at concerts around the world. But rarely is such a disruption captured on video — and rarer still is the case when a professional orchestra uploads ...

British pianist Clare Hammond selects unfairly neglected piano concertos that deserve to be performed more often ...

John Adams: City Noir, Saxophone Concerto St. Louis Symphony/David Robertson, with Timothy McAllister (saxophone) (Nonesuch) There's a lot going on in John Adams's City Noir. Ideas come thick and fast ...

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 ...

It was a great weekend for Shostakovich and Prokofiev concertos at the Aspen Music Festival, with a fine smattering of other concerto-like pieces to liven up the proceedings. Augustin Hadelich never ...

The Australian Haydn Ensemble stands at the forefront of Australia’s historically informed orchestras. Comprised of world-class musicians on period instruments, AHE is deeply dedicated to historical ...