Two ‘London’ Symphony recordings arrive emblazoned with icons of the city: Tower Bridge, largely obscured by Thomas Fey, and Parliament’s Elizabeth Tower, peeping out from behind a red letterbox. This ...

Background In 1790 Haydn, by now the most famous composer in Europe, took up an invitation from the London-based concert producer Johann Peter Salomon to become his in-house composer. That meant ...

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.

Stuttgart is home to a vibrant Haydn symphony performing tradition. To an early ’90s disc of three symphonies connected with Mozart (Nos 47, 62 and 75 in lively if slightly po-faced performances with ...

A vibrant new recording under the direction of Harry Christophers. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 26 August 2013. In Harry Christophers’ expert hands, Haydn comes to life in this, the first in a ...

To mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn, Ted Libbey considers the great composer's final set of symphonies. Joseph Haydn's last 12 symphonies, commissioned by the London impresario ...

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.

We’re often told that music is about “feelings”. But a lot of classical music offers something else entirely. The great writer on music Hans Keller defined it as “the pleasurably delayed gratification ...