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Like many German conductors, Michael Gielen specializes in misery, which is not exactly Haydn’s defining quality. There’s enough of it in the Nelson Mass to
Abbado conducts Haydn like an extremely insecure yet precocious child looking for attention. Never at his best in music of the Classical period, he fusses
There is no finer version available of Haydn’s Op. 74 quartets, and certainly none better recorded. Playing on this level silences criticism, so I’ll just
Back from the wilderness of Sony’s Essential Classics series, and remastered in nice, clear stereo along with Bernstein’s set of Paris Symphonies for this same
These performances by the Vienna Piano Trio are sharply profiled, warm, and exciting. The players really know how to “swing” the German dance finale of
META4 has a cool name, and they play standing up (except, presumably, the cellist), a fact that may in part account for the free, improvisatory
The Jerusalem Quartet’s first disc of Haydn quartets was very good, but as my colleague Dan Davis pointed out, its only defect was a tendency
This is excellent quartet playing. Some listeners might well prefer a touch more rhythmic drive in, say, the first movements of the C major and
Can we really have too much of a good thing in this music? The virtues of Thomas Fey’s Haydn are well known, and are firmly
This set, alongside the Tokyo String Quartet’s Haydn Op. 20 and Op. 76 (both long unavailable), comprises some of the finest Haydn quartet playing in
