Acide e Galatea, Movements: Overture (pub 1959) Joseph Haydn, Composer Manfred Huss, Conductor Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta (Lo) Speziale Manfred Huss, Conductor Joseph Haydn, Composer Vienna Haydn ...

The first of Haydn's Esterhazy symphonies, in Le Matin nothing is taken for granted, and its musical structure is full of startling moments How else should the most productive period of symphonic ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the course of 2023 a select number of big recording projects came to fruition, prime among them Jean-Efflam ...

Austrian composer Joseph Haydn wrote over 100 symphonies, and almost as many string quartets, more than 50 keyboard sonatas, 14 masses, and 32 ‘pieces for mechanical clock’! Here are his 10 best.

Ekaterina Derzhavina's name was new to me, but this 9-CD set of Haydn's complete piano sonatas should broaden her recognition considerably. Her playing is elegant, stylish, and above all imaginative, ...

Debates about "best" composers are silly, but in this year of Haydn, his admirers are seizing the opportunity to right a few wrongs when it comes to their favorite composer. And wronged they feel.

Joyous, rambunctious, and infectious; pert and alert here, swaggering and swinging there: Thomas Fey and his trusty Heidelberg band deliver Haydn like none other. The unknown L’incontro improvviso ...

Stephen Moss by the Welcome to Eisenstadt (Haydnstadt) sign, Austria. Photograph: David Levene/Guardian Joseph Haydn's problem is that he didn't die young or go deaf. He survived until he was 77 and ...