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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Opp 42, 77 & Seven Last Words The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Haydn's 'Seven Last Words' (heard here in the composer's own arrangement for string quartet) is simply sublime, and a fitting testimonial to the composer's deep, enduring faith. It provides an apt and generous coupling for the two magnificent Op 77... |
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EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: Interpreters on Record, Vol. 1 - Vocal & Dramatic Music Maurice D'Oisly, Clara Butt, Tudor Davies, Peter Dawson, Alice Moxon, Haydn Wood, Kathleen Ferrier, Glasgow Orpheus Choir [ Dutton The Elgar Society / CD - released 1/Jan/1997 ] "This wonderful collection of recordings, made for the most part in Elgar's own lifetime, has not only authenticity of period; for those born into that time it is something to be played and savoured." Gramophone |
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HAYDN
Haydn: Symphony No. 100 & Nelson Mass Handel and Haydn Society, Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] Experience two grand classics, alive with all the excitement and verve of their very first performances. Thrill to one of Haydn's masterful 'London' symphonies that wowed England's capital - the smash hit 'Military', so-called for intense depictions... |
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HAYDN
Haydn: London Symphony No. 99 / Harmoniemesse Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] Four superb soloists join Harry Christophers and the Handel and Haydn Society for Haydn's last great Mass. The Handel and Haydn Society continues its acclaimed Haydn exploration on CORO with one of the composer's last major works - the dramatic... |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: London Symphony No.103 / Theresienmesse Harry Christophers & Handel and Haydn Society [ Coro / CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] The Handel and Haydn Society celebrates Haydn with a dazzling pairing of two of the composer's masterpieces. In one of his final performances as Artistic Director of the Society, Harry Christophers leads the ensemble and a stellar cast of soloists... |
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LOUIS SPOHR
Spohr: String Quintets Vol 3: No 5 & 6 Haydn Quartet, Budapest, with Sandor Papp (viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Mar/2003 ] The Haydn Quartet, which has performed both in Hungary and elsewhere in Europe, was established on the basis of an earlier string trio. |
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JOSEF HAYDN
The Complete Early Divertimenti (5 CDs for the price of 3) Haydn Sinfonietta Wien / Manfred Huss [ BIS / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2011 ] Haydn Sinfonietta Wien and Manfred Huss have possibly done more than any other performers when it comes to spreading the music of Haydn's earliest years, resurrecting scores which for decades and even centuries have been lying forgotten in archives. |
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JOSEF HAYDN
String Quartets, Op. 17 (2 CDs) The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2009 ] The quartets are performed here on period instruments by the dazzling London Haydn Quartet, whose disc of the Op 9 quartets drew the most extravagant praise from the critics. Their second disc has been eagerly awaited, and comes as part of Hyperion's... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op 50 'Prussian' The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 15/Feb/2016 ] The London Haydn Quartet turns to the six Op 50 quartets. More serious-intellectually taut-than the Op 33 'Russian' quartets which they follow in Haydn's output, these six 'Prussian' quartets dazzle in such committed performances as these. |
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JOSEF HAYDN
String Quartets Op 9 (2 CDs) The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 2/Nov/2007 ] 'Without a doubt one of the all-time great Haydn quartet recordings … The original instrument London Haydn Quartet play Op 9 with such deep feeling, dynamic subtlety and phrasal sensitivity that even the simplest of ideas become things of wonder.... |