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Haydn 2032, Vol. 14: L'impériale

Giovanni Antonini

Classical - Released September 1, 2023 | Alpha Classics

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The Haydn 2032 project of conductor Giovanni Antonini is an ambitious undertaking, with plans to record all of the composer's symphonies by 2032. They are divided by theme rather than being plowed through chronologically, usually with relevant works by other composers added on. Here, the "extra" composer is Haydn himself, who revised a puppet-show overture into an alternate finale for one of the present symphonies. The Symphony No. 53 in D major, Hob. 1/53, was given the nickname "L'Impériale" ("The Imperial") by someone other than Haydn, but it is accurate enough for the imposing, timpani-backed opening. In fact, all three of the works here make unusual use of the brass, and they are well suited to Antonini's high-powered, large-orchestra approach. That approach is all to the good; there is no reason to think Haydn wouldn't have wanted as large an orchestra as he could get. It may diminish some of the humor in the slow movements, but it is not that Antonini is incapable of humor; sample the finale of the Symphony No. 33 in C major, Hob. 1/33, which here is about as riotously deceptive as it has ever been. The works are recorded with all repeats, but they never grow tiring. A strong entry in Antonini's ambitious series, this made classical best-seller lists in the late summer of 2023.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Haydn - 48 Piano Sonatas

Daniel-Ben Pienaar

Classical - Released August 25, 2023 | Avie Records

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Haydn 2032, Vol. 1: La Passione

Giovanni Antonini

Classical - Released October 7, 2014 | Alpha Classics

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Since the 2015-2016 season, Giovanni Antonini has been the "principal guest conductor" of the Basel Chamber Orchestra (Kammerorchester Basel, recreated in 1984 in the spirit of the first Basler Kammerorchester which was founded by the patron and Swiss conductor Paul Sacher). He is working with them on important discographic projects, such as the complete Beethoven symphonies (Sony Classical) which are proving to be a great success with the press; and the "Haydn 2032" project, which is set to comprise the complete hundred and seven symphonies by Joseph Haydn, to mark the latter’s 300th birthday. The first fruit of this vast complete collection, that is, this album, was created by Antonini's historic Italian ensemble and described as a work of "passion" (but how could it be otherwise with a personality as joyful and innovative as Haydn?). The record gets off to a flying start with the Symphony n° 39 in G minor, subtitled "Tempesta di mare" on a 1779 manuscript and which, curiously, no publisher has yet taken up. Although it does not break out of its formal framework, it is a work stirred by tempestuous winds which are scarcely calmed by an Andante that seems to arise out of nowhere. The Finale is all filled with Vivaldian cascades, painting a portrait of natural cataclysm, or of the agitation of a soul struggling with the first jolts of Romanticism. A childhood memory of Giovanni Antonini who had discovered Haydn through his Symphony No. 1, this final piece at the end of this first album was broadly influenced by the style of the Mannheim school which was then flourishing in Europe. The harmonic proximity of the Symphony n° 49 in F Minor "The Passion" to the ballet-pantomime Don Juan or the Feast of Stone which Gluck had composed a few years earlier led Giovanni Antonini to include Gluck in this first volume, a dream opportunity for the conductor to show how Haydn changed the fate of the symphony by introducing a dramatic touch tinged with irony. Antonini sees in the two composers the same turn of mind and a shared use of techniques, who nevertheless bring together very different aspects of life in their music. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Joseph Haydn & Michael Haydn: Overtures and Symphonies

Österreichisch-Ungarische Haydn-Philharmonie

Miscellaneous - Released August 25, 2023 | Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm (MDG)

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Haydn : L'Impatiente

Julien Chauvin

Classical - Released October 4, 2019 | Aparté

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The Haydn series continues with the Paris Symphony No. 87. Julien Chauvin and his orchestra keep shaking us up with historical instruments listening to Haydn’s works and several other forgotten scores from the same period. All of them were commissioned for the Concert de la Loge Olympique - ancestor and model for Julien Chauvin and his musicians – and all of them sank into oblivion during the 19th century, except for Haydn’s symphonies. The record offers an opportunity to experience some rare works of Grétry, Lemoyne and Ragué, and to revive the success that they once knew. © Aparté
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Haydn: Piano Trios, HOB. XV:14, 18, 21, 26 & 31

Trio Wanderer

Classical - Released April 20, 2018 | harmonia mundi

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After celebrating thirty years of life and work together with the Trios by Dvořak, our three wandering companions (Vincent Coq, piano, Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian, violin and Raphaël Pidoux, cello) have brought out another round of Trios, this time by Joseph Haydn, the inventor of this form, which is an inheritor of the baroque trio sonata, with a cello part often providing the basso continuo. There are 39 authentic compositions by Haydn for this instrumental format, which he wrote at various points throughout his life. The music is of very high quality and it unites all the characteristic forms of his style, his vivacity, expression, freedom of tone and form, and the zest of his cheering humour. The Wanderers have judiciously selected their works from three different epochs for this new album which offers the Trios n° 14, 18, 21, 26 & 31 which offer plenty of surprises and rare tonalities from Haydn, like A-flat major, F-sharp minor, or E-flat minor. The performance is both fluent and lucid. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Beethoven : Symphonie No. 7 - Haydn : Symphonie No. 104 "Londres" (Diapason n°596)

Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra

Symphonic Music - Released July 25, 2010 | Les Indispensables de Diapason

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Mozart: String Quartets - Dedicated to Haydn, Vol. 2

Engegård Quartet

Classical - Released September 3, 2021 | Lawo Classics

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With this release, the Engegård Quartet completes its recordings of the six string quartets that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dedicated to his paternal friend Joseph Haydn. Written in Vienna in Mozart’s “mature” years - from age 25 until he died 36 years old in 1791 - they are a gift to a friend that hardly has its equal. He worked on them alongside many other works from 1782 to 1785 and proudly presented them to friends and colleagues, often in his own home. His own son believed he would have become immortal had he written nothing else. Mozart was himself a remarkable violinist and violist. His father Leopold made him aware that being as brilliant a violinist as pianist was simply a matter of the will. There are solo passages in his divertimenti requiring exceptional virtuosity on the part of the concertmaster, passages he very likely performed himself. He played the quartets with some of Vienna’s best musicians. Joseph Haydn, himself an able violinist, was among them. We are left to wonder what it sounded like. The level of sound was weaker than that of the Engegård Quartet. The instruments had sensitive gut strings, and the rather straight bow had fewer horse hairs than today. In addition, with probably less string tension, the instruments had a gentler feel, and playing technique was somewhat different. There is evidence for this in Leopold Mozart’s own violin method from 1756, the year Wolfgang was born. Thus we would expect the sound to differ from what we hear today, and efforts to recreate it can help us in our conceptions. As a matter of fact, Mozart’s own viola can be viewed in Salzburg in the house on Getreidegasse in which he was born. © LAWO Classics
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Mozart: The 6 String Quartets Dedicated to Haydn

Quatuor Cambini-Paris

Chamber Music - Released January 26, 2015 | Ambroisie - naïve

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Joseph Haydn : Concertos pour violoncelle - W.A. Mozart : Symphonie No. 29 K.201

Tatjana Vassiljeva

Classical - Released September 23, 2013 | Mirare

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D'Indy & Gounod

Les Solistes de l'Orchestre de Paris

Classical - Released January 13, 2023 | Indésens

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Brahms : Symphonie No. 1 & Variations sur un thème de Haydn (Diapason n°585)

Orchestre De La NDR De Hambourg

Symphonic Music - Released September 28, 2009 | Les Indispensables de Diapason

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Reger: Variations & Fugue - Haydn: Sonata No. 60 - Bach: 14 Canons

Rudolf Serkin

Classical - Released January 1, 1986 | Sony Classical

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Karol Szymanowski: Piano Works

Krystian Zimerman

Classical - Released September 30, 2022 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Recordings by Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman are a rare event, and eagerly awaited by his many fans. They surely won’t be disappointed with this new opus that brings together Szymanowski, Zimerman and legendary pianist Arthur Rubinstein.Returning to his roots, Krystian Zimerman pays tribute to his compatriot Karol Szymanowski on the 140th anniversary of the composer’s birth. This selection of little-known works testifies to the importance of Szymanowski within the piano repertoire. A long twenty-eight years separate Zimerman's recording of Masques, Op. 34 (made in 1994 in Copenhagen) from the rest of the programme, which was recorded in 2022 in the exceptional acoustics of the Fukuyama Concert Hall near Hiroshima.Nevertheless, the considerable lapse of time between these recordings doesn’t detract from the album's coherence. This is thanks to Zimerman's fluid, clear and readable sound, which—as we know—leaves nothing to chance. This fascinating recording reveals various facets of Szymanowski's compositional genius and features both his mature and early works, all of which were influenced by the great Chopin.Composed during the First World War whilst staying at the family estate in Ukraine, the three parts of Masques evoke Debussy, Scriabin and Stravinsky. However, each movement is overlaid with the orientalist perspective so typical of the Polish composer. A few carefully chosen Préludes and Mazurkas stand alongside the splendid Variations on a Polish Folk Theme for piano, Op. 10, composed by a young Szymanowski still in the process of mastering his mother tongue. © François Hudry/Qobuz