
This is Haydn on autopilot: cold, humorless, mannered, formulaic, and crude. It’s impossible to exaggerate just how disappointing Thomas Fey’s Haydn has become, particularly given
If anything, this second volume of Salieri orchestral works is even better than the first. The music is unfailingly colorful, inventive, and wholly winning. Perhaps
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
Given all the buzz surrounding the play and film Amadeus, you would think that someone would have gotten around to a systematic survey of Antonio
Haydn’s 49th and 52nd symphonies rank with the most emotionally tense works of his “Sturm und Drang” period, and you would think that their eruptive
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Boy, is this vile! Thomas Fey, who has done some marvelous work in Haydn and Beethoven, seems to regard Mozart as a sort of musical
This stupendous disc contains simply the best recordings of these symphonies currently available. Thomas Fey’s take-no-prisoners approach pays huge dividends. He cultivates a big, rich
As with his splendid Hänssler release devoted to Haydn keyboard concertos, pianist Gerrit Zitterbart again applies his stylish sensitivity to a trio of early Mozart
More Haydn from Thomas Fey is always a treat, and this disc is no exception. Almost all of Haydn’s symphonies, even the really obscure ones,