Franz Joseph Haydn never gets the attention he deserves. His friend Mozart and his student Beethoven tend to soak up most of the spotlight, but neither of those guys is called the “father” of anything ...

Recorded live in Symphony Hall in January of 2015, this all-Haydn disc from the Handel and Haydn Society combines the authenticity of period instruments with the interpretive skills of H+H artistic ...

Barefoot Chamber Concerts ("an enterprise noted for both its quality and informality" - San Francisco Classical Voice) presents really good music in the right acoustic and without the formality of ...

HAYDN: Symphonies Nos. 93-98. George Szell conducting The Cleveland Orchestra. Sony Classical 8869748904-2: two CDs. Certain recordings deserve to remain in the catalogue indefinitely, and these ...

This year is the bicentennial of America’s oldest living arts ensemble, the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston. One of the Society’s founders, Gottfried Graupner, had played oboe in the orchestra that ...

A curious gathering of potent spirits has been brewing over the last decade in Boston, Massachusetts. First, in 2008, Harry Christophers replaced Grant Llewellyn as (who, in turn, had replaced Sir ...

Haydn: Symphonies 17-21 The Hanover Band; Roy Goodman, conductor; Hyperion. At present, Goodman has no competition among other period-instrument groups for the first four of these symphonies, and ...