Menu
Your guide to classical music online
Menu
Menu
Your guide to classical music online
This warmly recorded, naturally balanced disc is delightful. The Minetti Quartet offers three late Haydn masterpieces, played with plenty of high spirits and, in the
Next to the bland and flat-footed quality of Alain Planès’ previous Haydn releases, the pianist fares relatively well in these four late sonatas. Granted, Planès
As with previous volumes in this series, these almost completely unfamiliar early Haydn works (though very popular in their day) are a constant source of
Granted, there are better individual performances of the various symphonies from conductors as diverse as Eugen Jochum, Leonard Bernstein, Trevor Pinnock, and Thomas Fey; but
If I read one more silly booklet note on the unique suitability of period instruments to music of the classical period, I swear I’m going
Under the work’s title, in small print on the CD slip-case, we find the words “Intermezzi: Ron Ford (2004)”. This made me nervous. For some
There is no other set of Haydn overtures at this level of comprehensiveness, nor does there need to be. This one is sensational. The 22
The more I listen, the more convinced I become that in Classical-era orchestral works, most period-instrument groups are totally clueless, to the point of being
This first volume in a projected series of the complete Haydn piano trios promises many future delights. The performances are, by and large, excellent. The
There is no other collection of the complete Haydn keyboard music that comes anywhere close to this one. Ronald Brautigam plays all of this music,
