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Haydn, W.F. Bach & C.P.E. Bach: Trios for Oboe, Bassoon & Piano
Sergio Azzolini
Classical - Released July 13, 2018 | Sony Classical - Sony Music
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Yes, yes, the three Trios n° 15, 16 and 17 of 1790 were originally written for flute, piano and cello, and not for the oboe, piano and bassoon; but we know well how in those days, works intended for great amateurs (Londoners, in this case) could easily be adapted for any number of other instruments, whether bass or melodic parts: and so why not this delicious, pastoral combination? As for the Trio by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, its origin is even more unique. Written before 1740, it is written across a number of pages which carry counter-punctual efforts by Johann Sebastian and his son; Wilhelm Friedemann's writing includes a Sonata for Two Flutes and Harpsichord, which is transcribed here for oboe – the pianist's right hand taking on the role of the second flute. The bassoon follows the bass part. The rest of the album, all dedicated to the same son, and also to the better-known Carl Philipp Emanuel, also takes in works written for other arrangements but deftly redistributed here for the trio formed by oboist Maurice Bourgue, the pianist Kimiko Imani and bassoon player Sergio Azzolini – based on the transcription principle which was very much the norm in the 18th century. © SM/Qobuz
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Mozart: String Quartets - Dedicated to Haydn - K. 421, K. 428, K. 465
Engegård Quartet
Classical - Released February 15, 2019 | Lawo Classics
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Joseph Haydn : Messe "Harmoniemesse" - Symphonie n°88 - Sinfonia en ré majeur
Mariss Jansons
Sacred Vocal Music - Released November 17, 2009 | BR-Klassik
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Mozart : Coronation Mass (Messe du Couronnement) - Haydn : Symphonie n° 85 "La Reine"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Classical - Released September 3, 2012 | Coro
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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: Intégrale des Sonates pour Piano et violon
Marie-Claudine Papadopoulos
Classical - Released April 20, 2019 | Les Belles Ecouteuses
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Mozart: The Six Haydn Quartets, Vol. I: String Quartet No. 14 in G Major, K.387 - String Quartet No. 15 in D Minor, K.421
Prazak Quartet
Classical - Released January 1, 2020 | EG Classics
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Haydn 2032, Vol. 10: Les heures du jour
Giovanni Antonini
Classical - Released July 9, 2021 | Alpha Classics
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Entitled "The Times of Day", this programme of the tenth volume in the complete recording of Haydn’s 107 symphonies on Alpha Classics is devoted to Symphonies No. 6, No. 7 and No. 8, whose individual names translate as "Morning", "Noon" and "Evening". Prince Paul Anton Esterházy, who commissioned the work, is said to have wanted to show his guests that his orchestra was of excellent quality and that "his" Haydn was highly inventive. Giovanni Antonini’s orchestra, Il Giardino Armonico, once again rises to the challenge! This triptych following the sun’s course is prolonged into the night by the work of another composer: Mozart’s Serenade in D major, nicknamed "Serenata notturna", probably written for a masked ball at Salzburg Town Hall in February 1776. Jérôme Sessini of the Magnum agency, who has won awards for his work on the cartel wars in Mexico and the opioid crisis in the United States, took the photographs featured in this volume. © Alpha Classics
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Haydn 2032, Vol. 12: Les jeux et les plaisirs
Giovanni Antonini
Classical - Released July 8, 2022 | Alpha Classics
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The twelfth volume in the Haydn2032 series, in which Giovanni Antonini conducts the Kammerorchester Basel, is devoted to "games and pleasures". The symphonies recorded here, Nos. 61, 66 and 69, were composed for the daily theatrical performances held at Eszterháza Palace in the spring of 1776. For Haydn they marked the end of a festive period, before he had to return to the serious business of writing operas. The "Toy Symphony", attributed to Haydn for 200 years before it was discovered that it was in all probability composed by a Benedictine monk, completes the programme in a similarly light and cheerful atmosphere. © Alpha Classics
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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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Haydn 2032, Vol. 7 : Gli impresari
Giovanni Antonini
Classical - Released February 22, 2019 | 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 a great success with the press; and the "Haydn 2032" project, a recording of the complete hundred and seven symphonies by Joseph Haydn, to mark the composer’s 300th birthday. Volume 7 begins with the extraordinary Symphony No. 67 in F major. This astonishing work showcases its author's boundless inventive faculty, bringing together an overpowering joie de vivre with passages of pure chamber music; the evocation of the village fiddlers or, in the wonderful and enchanting Mozartian Adagio, the use of the bows "col legno" (that is, used by striking the wood of the bow against the stands) long before Rossini in his opening to Il Signor Bruschino, remain particularly memorable moments. Mozart, the much-admired friend, is also present in this album dedicated to the impresarios ("gli impresari"), those theatre directors whom Prince Esterházy hired for certain shows that Haydn enriched with compositions which would later be transformed into symphonies – and which are now presented here, in this volume. In addition to the Symphony No. 67 described above, this edition offers an original version of Mozart's Thamos, King of Egypt in an exclusively instrumental form, as well as Haydn's Symphonies No. 9 and No. 65 which were written for use in the theatre. This theatre of passions that runs through Haydn's 107 symphonies must therefore be understood as a perfect match between the natural aspirations of the composer's own genius and the pragmatism that almost always governed the arts of the time. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Haydn 2032, Vol. 2 : Il filosofo
Giovanni Antonini
Symphonies - Released April 20, 2015 | Alpha Classics
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The Alpha label's Haydn 2032 series, produced in collaboration with the Joseph Haydn Stiftung (or Foundation), may be optimistically conceived. It's hard to say in what form Haydn will be absorbed in 2032; a guess could be something like Neal Stephenson's Metaverse. Be that as it may, the series apparently will have a pair of organizing principles. The first is that individual programs will be loosely thematic rather than simply running in numerical sequence. Here, that idea doesn't work out so well. The title "Il Filosofo" or "Der Philosoph" for Haydn's Symphony No. 22 in E flat major, Hob. 1/22, seems not to have been Haydn's own and to have been derived later on from a superficially dialogue-like passage near the beginning. And it's hard to see how the other two Haydn symphonies on the album fit into the plan. But the news is better with the second principle, under which each album will combine several Haydn symphonies with one by another composer. Nobody has done this, and it works brilliantly here: the booklet expands on the notion of "originality," but the listener may well have already deduced that novelty is the reason for the rarely heard Symphony in F major for strings and continuo of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composed in Dresden the 1730s or 1740s. It's an earlier work, but in its spiky melodic lines and experimental treatment of register it's easy to imagine that the young Haydn might have heard it. More broadly, the concept reflects how music might have been heard by audiences in the 18th century, when it wasn't yet clear that Haydn would emerge as the great. One looks forward to the pairings in future releases in the series. The rather old-fashioned silvery sound of the historical-instrument Il Giardino Armonio under Giovanni Antonini is clear and accurate, and generally this promises to be a Haydn series with fresh ideas.© TiVo
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Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 42, 77 & 103
Takács Quartet
Classical - Released September 2, 2022 | Hyperion
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Erdödy, Joseph Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76
Quatuor Akos
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Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 9
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Classical - Released March 1, 2021 | Chandos
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Following his acclaimed recording of Beethoven’s Concertos with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet returns to his exploration of Haydn’s Sonatas, described by the magazine Gramophone as "a major modern recording landmark in the Haydn discography". As in previous instalments, Bavouzet has programmed sonatas from Haydn’s early, middle, and late periods, giving added interest to the recital. Sonatas No. 10 and No. 2, dating from the 1750s and ’60s respectively, share the key of C major, but differ in form. The short No. 2 was almost certainly written for pupils whilst Haydn was working as a teacher. No. 10 is more ambitious and extensive. Sonatas No. 41 and No. 44 date from the early 1770s and show some influence from C.P.E. Bach and the "Sturm und Drang" movement. More virtuosic than the earlier sonatas, in these the trademark humour of Haydn is also more evident. Sonatas No. 52 and No. 53 were composed a decade later and are conspicuously more demanding, technically and musically. As in the case of the previous volumes, this album was recorded at Potton Hall in Suffolk, on a Yamaha CFX Concert Grand Piano. © Chandos
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Haydn: The 6 Paris Symphonies
Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Music - Released April 23, 2009 | Sony Classical
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Haydn: Symphonies No. 95 & 98
Staatskapelle Dresden
Symphonic Music - Released April 15, 1971 | Eterna
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Haydn: Piano Trios
Guarneri Trio Prague
Trios - Released June 2, 2023 | Praga Digitals
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This release marks the 35th anniversary of the Guarneri Trio Prague, and the group members say they picked Haydn for the occasion because of the festive quality of his music. Not everything here is festive; the Piano Trio in F sharp minor, Hob. 15/26, is on the melancholy side, but the idea is generally valid. The Guarneri Trio Prague is not a household name, but chamber groups have rarely lasted so long, and the group has released superb recordings that stand up to rehearings years later. This may well become one of them. The five trios recorded here all come from the late-middle and late periods of Haydn's career and qualify as genuine piano trios. They differ substantially in structure and mood, but they receive a consistent, confident approach from the Guarneri Trio. Hear the opening Piano Trio in G major, Hob. 15/25, known as the "Gypsy" trio with its Hungarian verbunkos finale. This is one of Haydn's most popular chamber works, and it would seem hard to improve on what previous trios have done, but the lithe, confident playing of the group at the very least, comes close. The players take quick tempos and execute them without a hitch, and they have the indefinable grasp of humor and of the unexpected that makes Haydn performances work. A fitting celebration.
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Haydn: The Complete Symphonies
Antal Doráti
Symphonies - Released January 1, 1996 | Decca
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Mozart & Schubert : Quartets Nos. 15
Quatuor Voce
Classical - Released September 6, 2019 | Alpha Classics
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The Quatuor Voce is fifteen years old! To celebrate this anniversary, the four musicians present an album focusing on two composers, Mozart and Schubert, but only one number: 15! This milestone, an age imbued with both ardour and maturity, is therefore embodied in the respective fifteenth quartets of these two geniuses of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Mozart composed his Quartet No. 15 in 1783, as the second in the set of six "Quartets dedicated to Haydn". Schubert wrote his Quartet No. 15, his last work in the genre, in 1826. He composed it in only ten days but did not live to hear its first performance, which took place twenty-three years after his death. © Alpha Classics
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