A complete cycle of Haydn’s 104 symphonies on period instruments has always seemed just out of reach. After two earlier cycles were aborted part way through Decca decided to bring those together and ...

Joseph Haydn is every bit the equal of Mozart and Beethoven but loses out in popular appeal because he was so prolific. Very few of his invariably excellent pieces stand out from the crowd the way ...

Haydn’s symphonies–104 in all, produced over a four-decade span–chart the growth of a facile compositional mind as well as a genre that would become the foundation of the classical canon. Even the ...

You know the trend toward symphony orchestras marketing their own musical products has reached its apogee when the venerable Vienna Philharmonic starts doing it. This three-CD set includes seven Haydn ...

Haydn SymphonyThe Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra plays Haydn's Symphony No. 83, The Hen, one of several symphonies Haydn wrote for Paris. This performance comes to us from the New Jersey Performing Arts ...

Joyous, rambunctious, and infectious; pert and alert here, swaggering and swinging there: Thomas Fey and his trusty Heidelberg band deliver Haydn like none other. The unknown L’incontro improvviso ...

In our daily series Armchair Arts, a Telegraph critic offers expert analysis. Today, Ivan Hewett looks at a playful but majestic work Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an ...