Haydn: The Complete Symphonies. Stuttgarter Kammerorchester; Dennis Russell Davies. (37 CDs; Sony 86974 43312) Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809) is generally recognized as the "father" of both the ...

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 ...

Cobweb Orchestra, which spans from Cumbria to parts of the northeast, completed the project which took nearly five years. The brainchild of local Cumbrian conductor Peter Wood, the scheme was hatched ...

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 ...

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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 ...

To mark the 200th anniversary of his death BBC Radio 3 presents a series of programming on Haydn, an international superstar composer who, in his day, was considered more famous than Mozart. Haydn is ...

ON the face of it, Haydn has never had it so good. After a relentless decline in his fortunes after his death, he has finally regained most of the prestige he enjoyed in his lifetime. Most of his vast ...