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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.... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Opp 54 & 55 [performed from the 1789 London edition] The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 27/Jan/2017 ] "I never thought that a HIP (historically-informed performance) quartet such as the London Haydn Quartet would ascend to the level of the greatest quartet of our generation" AudAud Best of the Year 2017 |
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W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart Opera Festival (Le Nozze di Figaro, Die ZauberflAte, CosA fan tutte, etc) (Rec 1971) Lucia Popp (soprano) Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) Werner Krenn (tenor) Tom Krause (baritone) / Wiener Haydn-Orchester / Istvan Kertesz [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 13/Jul/2005 ] In 1971, István Kertész went into the studio with an array of opera singers he enjoyed performing with to make a recording of arias, duets and ensembles from Mozart's most popular operas. |
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ELTON JOHN
John: Billy Elliot - The Musical Haydn Gwynne & Tim Healy / Original Cast Recording [ Universal / CD - released 5/Dec/2005 ] Billy Elliot: The Musical is a coming-of-age stage musical based on the 2000 film of the same name. The music is by Elton John, and the book and lyrics are by Lee Hall, who wrote the film's screenplay. |
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HAYDN / MOZART
Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 26 & 86; Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major Aisslinn Nosky (violin) / Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] Continuing their acclaimed live series on CORO, the Handel and Haydn Society presents one of Haydn's early Sturm und Drang (storm and stress) symphonies - No. 26 in D minor. More commonly known as 'Lamentatione' because of its association with Easter... |
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Violin Concertos Volume II Aisslinn Nosky (violin) / Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Mozart's Violin Concertos need little introduction and are some of his most well-known and best-loved works. Despite being written when the composer was just 19 years old, they feature Mozart at his elegant, witty and beguilingly changeable... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 82 / Violin Concerto in G major Aisslinn Nosky (violin) / Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 20/Sep/2013 ] In Harry Christophers' expert hands, Haydn comes to life in the first in a series of new live recordings from the Handel and Haydn Society. This disc showcases one of Haydn's Paris Symphonies, L'ours ('The Bear'), a festive and jubilant work... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 84 / Violin Concerto in A Aisslinn Nosky (violin) / Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] In the third disc in their acclaimed series, Harry Christophers and the Handel and Haydn Society present a new live recording devoted to the master of the symphony - Joseph Haydn. This disc showcases Haydn's Symphony No. 8 Le soir, which completes... |
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Sir WILLIAM WALTON / ROBERTO MOLINELLI
Walton: Cello Concerto (arr. viola) / Molinelli: Lady Walton's Garden '/ etc Anna Serova (viola) / Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, Roberto Molinelli (conductor/electronics) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Nov/2023 ] With his distinctive blend of incisive drama and lyrical expressiveness, Sir William Walton considered his cello to be the best of his three concertos for string instruments - heard here for the first time in a stunning transcription for viola. |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Symphony No. 97 / Symphony No. 102 A"sterreichisch-Ungarische Haydn-Philharmonie / Adam Fischer [ MDG SACD / SACD - released 1/May/2008 ] "At their best, these performances combine rhythmic guile, pungency of detail and an impressive control of the music's long paragraphs. No 97, last and most flamboyant in Haydn's regal line of C major symphonies, is especially fine, whether in the... |
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LOUIS SPOHR
Spohr: String Quintet No. 7 / String Sextet, Op. 140 / Potpourri Attila Falvay (violin) Sandor Papp (viola) Tamas Varga (cello) / New Haydn Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Feb/2006 ] Louis Spohr was accepted during his lifetime as one of the most important composers of early German Romanticism whose compositions covered all the major genres of that era. |