REVIEW Every string quartet worth its rosin plays Haydn. None, though, plays Haydn like the London Haydn Quartet. Where others treat the Classical-period master with deference, these accomplished ...

To mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn, Ted Libbey considers the great composer's final set of symphonies. Joseph Haydn's last 12 symphonies, commissioned by the London impresario ...

In a letter to the composer Zelter in 1829, Goethe described the string quartet as a conversation between four reasonable, intelligent people, and no one fostered that conversation with as much wit ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Conceived by Richard Tognetti, Haydn for Everyone has been an ambitious three-year project from Melbourne Festival to present the ...

Most of the time, when one encounters the term “early music,” it means that the music comes from the period before J.S. Bach. With this term there is often the association of a style of musical ...

As part of Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert this week, Hannah French presents four concerts recorded in September 2021 at LSO St Luke's in London, featuring works by Haydn in song, chamber music and solo ...

The problem with Haydn is where do I begin? Composers come in two categories, frugal and prolific. Arnold Schoenberg never wrote more than one opus a year. Haydn could write three in a week. However, ...

Is Joseph Haydn's music boring? Not at all, say Paavo Järvi and the musicians of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. On their musical journey through Haydn's symphonic works, they discover new and ...

The Haydn season kicked off with the obligatory splurge on Radio 3, and a massed charge led by Andras Schiff at the Wigmore Hall, but the really interesting thing was what musicologist and ...

Haydn’s The Creation begins with a big bang – the big bang, presumably – and if you’re looking to top Handel’s Messiah, as Haydn was, then it was the only place and the only way to start. Haydn was ...