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HAYDN
Symphony No.50 in C major [Der Götterrat] / Symphony No.12 in E major / Symphony No.60 in C major, ‘Il Distratto’ Haydn Sinfonietta Wien / Manfred Huss [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] By his employer Prince Esterházy Joseph Haydn was expected to provide music, and conduct the almost daily performances of operas and plays at the Prince's own opera house and marionette theatre. He must have been highly disciplined in order to be... |
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HANDEL
Water Music Suites Nos. 1-3, HWV348-350 / Overture to the Occasional Oratorio, HWV62 Haydn Sinfonietta Wien, Manfred Huss [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] It is an intriguing coincidence that in the case of several of the most famous works of music - for instance Haydn's Creation and Mozart's Symphony No.40 in G minor - there are no extant autograph scores. Another example is Georg Frideric Handel's... |
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MOZART
Three Salzburg Symphonies Haydn Sinfonietta Wien (playing on period instruments), Manfred Huss [ BIS / CD - released 10/Jun/2016 ] Mozart spent two thirds of his life in Salzburg - apart from the numerous tours that he undertook from a very early age - and during those years composed some 470 of the 626 works listed in the Köchel catalogue. Nevertheless, with a few exceptions... |
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HAYDN
HAYDN,SYMPHONIES HAYDN,SYMPHONIES [ Hanssler / CD ] |
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Stancul, Jasminka / Kuhn, Gustav / Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento
Mozart, W.A. - 9./27. Klavierkonzert [ Col Legno / CD - released 18/Sep/2017 ] |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Life and Works Narrated biography with extensive musical examples Jeremy Siepmann (narrator) with David Timson as Haydn [ Naxos Educational / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2009 ] No great composer's story is more predominantly happy than Haydn's, though even his has its share of clouds. A classic rags-to-riches tale. |
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Kuhn, Gustav / Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento
Brahms, Johannes - The 4 Symphonies [ Col Legno / 3 CD - released 18/Sep/2017 ] |
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Joseph Haydn
Piano Trios [ CD ] |
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Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento / Kuhn, Gustav / exxj ensemble / Burwik, Peter
Koglmann, Franz / Haydn, Joseph - Nocturnal Walks [ Col Legno / CD - released 18/Sep/2017 ] |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Complete Scottish & Welsh Folksongs Lorna Anderson (soprano) & Jamie MacDougall (tenor) / Ensemble Haydn Trio Eisenstadt [ Brilliant Classics / 18 CD Box Set - released 20/Jan/2010 ] 'Lorna Anderson and Jamie MacDougall are the ideal singers, both with a healthy, natural resonance, intelligent relish for the texts and unfailingly reliable intonation.' Gramophone. |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Complete Scottish & Welsh Folksongs Vol 3 Lorna Anderson (soprano) & Jamie MacDougall (tenor) / Ensemble Haydn Trio Eisenstadt [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Jan/2010 ] |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Scottish Songs Vol 5 (folksong arrangements) Lorna Anderson (soprano) / Jamie MacDougall (tenor) / Haydn Trio Eisenstadt [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] This important and charming set is the fifth of six volumes (totalling 18CDs in all) which gather together Joseph Haydn's arrangements of British folksongs. |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Scottish Songs Vol 6 (folksong arrangements) Lorna Anderson (soprano) / Jamie MacDougall (tenor) / Haydn Trio Eisenstadt [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] 'In the vigorous songs he (MacDougal) is excellent...Equally consistent is the standard of performance. The singers ideally suited to their tasks, the instrumentalists unfailingly lively and stylish in their playing' (Gramophone) |
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ENNIO MORRICONE
Morricone: Cinema Suites for Violin and Orchestra Marco Serino (violin); Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento; Andrea Morricone [ Arcana / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] 'There's an air of great respect and humility in the performances, conducted by Morricone's son, Andrea, while the music bears all the hallmarks of the man himself.' BBC Music Screen Choice April 2022 |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Opera at Eszterhaza Miah Persson (soprano), Kirstin Chávez (mezzo-soprano), Bernard Richter (tenor), Christoph Genz (tenor) / Haydn Sinfonietta Wien / Manfred Huss [ BIS / SACD - released 1/Dec/2009 ] "The likeable Swiss tenor Bernard Richter sings… imaginatively… Baritone Iván Paley is lively in the buffo fun of 'Dice benissimo'… but the finest singing comes from Miah Persson…" BBC Music Magazine, March 2010 **** |
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LOUIS SPOHR
Spohr: String Quintet No 7 / Sextet in C / Potpourri New Haydn Quartet with Sandor Papp (viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jan/2006 ] "Very good performances and first rate recording." Penguin Guide |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
String Quartets Vol 1 New Haydn Quartet, Budapest [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Sep/2001 ] "This release is self-recommending" - Classics Today |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
String Quartets Vol. 2 New Haydn Quartet (Budapest) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Jul/2008 ] Though Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky was a highly prolific and successful composer, he offered only six chamber works for publication. Three of these works are string quartets. This combination of instruments had long fascinated him, and before setting... |
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LOUIS SPOHR
Spohr: String Quintets Nos. 3 and 4 New Haydn Quartet with Sandor Papp (viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 17/Jun/2004 ] Louis Spohr was accepted during his lifetime as one of the most important composers of early German Romanticism whose career encompassed the period from Beethoven's Op. 18 string quartets to Wagner's Tristan and whose compositions covered all the... |
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Carlo Galante, Lowell Liebermann, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piccolo Concertos Nicola Mazzanti (keef piccolo) Alessandro Visintini nagahara mini Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento Marco Angius conductor [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2016 ] On this unique and diverse recording, three contemporary concertante works for piccolo and orchestra are coupled with an arrangement of Mozart's Oboe Quartet with the solo wind part exchanged for its treble cousin. Liebermann (b.1961) has... |