Mozart wrote many concertos, Haydn a mere handful. The reasons are fairly obvious - Haydn was not a virtuoso himself, and his secure gig with the Eszterhazy family meant that he didn't have to compete ...
On Feb. 20, the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave one of their odder concerts of the season. Featuring guest conductor Alan T. Gilbert ’89 and solo violinist Isabelle Faust, the BSO performed Joseph ...
On period instruments the wind concertos of the classical era take on a different personality. The plush uniformity of modern instruments is replaced by solo playing of quirky charisma. In Mozart’s ...
Concerto for Keyboard and Orchestra Marc-André Hamelin, Musician, Piano Joseph Haydn, Composer Bernard Labadie, Conductor (Les) Violons du Roy, Québec Concerto for Keyboard and Orchestra Bernard ...
The prize-winning cellist joins forces with Camerata Chicago for Haydn's concertos - and a rarity from a Czech composer. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 16 September 2013. Cellist Wendy Warner shot ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. After his successes with Haydn’s piano sonatas the ever-inquisitive Jean-Efflam Bavouzet moves on to the three ...
Joseph Haydn was an Austrian musician who spent most of his career in the service of an aristocratic family in Hungary but became one of the most famous and well-respected composers of his time. As ...
An organ concerto is an odd duck. It doesn't fit into a church service, and most 18th-century theaters didn't have organs. But Haydn probably wrote his Organ Concerto in C to honor an old girlfriend ...