ALEXANDER BORODIN
Borodin: String Quartets, Nos. 1 and 2 Haydn Quartet, Budapest [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2003 ] "The Haydn Quartet of Budapest play both works with a passionate display of Slavonic temperament" - Penguin Guide |
JOSEPH HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn: 12 London Symphonies Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, Adam Fischer [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 24/Jun/2013 ] Joseph Haydn, often referred to as 'The Father of the Symphony', has an enormous 109 of these works to his name. Within his vast oeuvre of symphonies is a group of 12, written between 1781 and 1795, which are known as the 'London' symphonies,... |
EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: Interpreters on Record, Vol. 1 - Vocal & Dramatic Music Maurice D'Oisly, Clara Butt, Tudor Davies, Peter Dawson, Alice Moxon, Haydn Wood, Kathleen Ferrier, Glasgow Orpheus Choir [ Dutton The Elgar Society / CD - released 1/Jan/1997 ] "This wonderful collection of recordings, made for the most part in Elgar's own lifetime, has not only authenticity of period; for those born into that time it is something to be played and savoured." Gramophone |
HAYDN
Haydn: Symphony No. 100 & Nelson Mass Handel and Haydn Society, Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] Experience two grand classics, alive with all the excitement and verve of their very first performances. Thrill to one of Haydn's masterful 'London' symphonies that wowed England's capital - the smash hit 'Military', so-called for intense depictions... |
HAYDN
Haydn: London Symphony No. 99 / Harmoniemesse Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] Four superb soloists join Harry Christophers and the Handel and Haydn Society for Haydn's last great Mass. The Handel and Haydn Society continues its acclaimed Haydn exploration on CORO with one of the composer's last major works - the dramatic... |
ELTON JOHHN
John: Billy Elliot - The Musical Haydn Gwynne & Tim Healy / Original Cast Recording [ Decca / CD - released 17/May/2005 ] Billy Elliot: The Musical is a coming-of-age stage musical based on the 2000 film of the same name. The music is by Elton John, and the book and lyrics are by Lee Hall, who wrote the film's screenplay. |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Opp 42, 77 & Seven Last Words The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Haydn's 'Seven Last Words' (heard here in the composer's own arrangement for string quartet) is simply sublime, and a fitting testimonial to the composer's deep, enduring faith. It provides an apt and generous coupling for the two magnificent Op 77... |
JOSEF HAYDN
String Quartets, Op. 17 (2 CDs) The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2009 ] The quartets are performed here on period instruments by the dazzling London Haydn Quartet, whose disc of the Op 9 quartets drew the most extravagant praise from the critics. Their second disc has been eagerly awaited, and comes as part of Hyperion's... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op 50 'Prussian' The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 15/Feb/2016 ] The London Haydn Quartet turns to the six Op 50 quartets. More serious-intellectually taut-than the Op 33 'Russian' quartets which they follow in Haydn's output, these six 'Prussian' quartets dazzle in such committed performances as these. |
JOSEF HAYDN
String Quartets Op 9 (2 CDs) The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 2/Nov/2007 ] 'Without a doubt one of the all-time great Haydn quartet recordings … The original instrument London Haydn Quartet play Op 9 with such deep feeling, dynamic subtlety and phrasal sensitivity that even the simplest of ideas become things of wonder.... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Opp 54 & 55 [performed from the 1789 London edition] The London Haydn Quartet [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 27/Jan/2017 ] "I never thought that a HIP (historically-informed performance) quartet such as the London Haydn Quartet would ascend to the level of the greatest quartet of our generation" AudAud Best of the Year 2017 |
ELTON JOHN
John: Billy Elliot - The Musical Haydn Gwynne & Tim Healy / Original Cast Recording [ Universal / CD - released 5/Dec/2005 ] Billy Elliot: The Musical is a coming-of-age stage musical based on the 2000 film of the same name. The music is by Elton John, and the book and lyrics are by Lee Hall, who wrote the film's screenplay. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Golden Age Of Light Music: From the Vintage Vaults Various Artists incls Edward Elgar, Haydn Wood, Marek Weber, Arthur Wood, Barnabas von Geczy, Ernst Fischer, etc [ Guild Light Music / CD - released 1/Sep/2016 ] The title of this CD could almost apply to every release in Guild's "Golden Age of Light Music" series so far, because our mission is to make available once again those recordings which have been neglected for far too long, and are no longer... |
JOHN TAVENER
Lamentations and Praises Chanticleer / Handel and Haydn Society of Boston Ensemble / Joseph Jennings [ Teldec / CD - released 13/Jul/2002 ] "Chanticleer's blissful singing is all-consuming; might this be Tavener's greatest work yet?" Gramophone Magazine (Feb 2002) |
HAYDN / MOZART
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) / Wiener Haydn-Orchester / Reinhard Peters [ Decca Classic Recitals / CD - released 1/Mar/2006 ] "A rewarding collection, characterised by some fine singing – but presented in thoroughly unhelpful fashion" (MusicWeb May 2006) |
HANDEL
Concerti grossi Op. 6 Nos. 1-12 HWV319-330 Handel & Haydn Society, Christopher Hogwood [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 22/Oct/2013 ] |
SCHUBERT
Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2 / Nocturno / Sonata Haydn Trio, Wien [ Teldec Warner Apex / 2 CD - released 22/Jun/2009 ] Now reissued at a special price |
HAYDN / MOZART
Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 26 & 86; Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major Aisslinn Nosky (violin) / Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] Continuing their acclaimed live series on CORO, the Handel and Haydn Society presents one of Haydn's early Sturm und Drang (storm and stress) symphonies - No. 26 in D minor. More commonly known as 'Lamentatione' because of its association with Easter... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Violin Concertos Volume II Aisslinn Nosky (violin) / Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Mozart's Violin Concertos need little introduction and are some of his most well-known and best-loved works. Despite being written when the composer was just 19 years old, they feature Mozart at his elegant, witty and beguilingly changeable... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 82 / Violin Concerto in G major Aisslinn Nosky (violin) / Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 20/Sep/2013 ] In Harry Christophers' expert hands, Haydn comes to life in the first in a series of new live recordings from the Handel and Haydn Society. This disc showcases one of Haydn's Paris Symphonies, L'ours ('The Bear'), a festive and jubilant work... |