The symphonies Haydn wrote for his two London visits in the early 1790s were the summation of a long career, bringing him the international celebrity his work for the Esterházy family had denied him.

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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 ...

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 ...

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Aficionados of Adám Fischer’s revisiting of Haydn’s ‘London’ Symphonies will know what to expect from this final instalment. His nimble chamber band fields a lean string section that nevertheless ...

The baroque chamber orchestra Camerata Tinta Barocca will feature award-winning South African flautist Liesl Stoltz in a programme of two of Joseph Haydn’s London symphonies on Wednesday 11 November.

Haydn's Last Word on the SymphonyAt a new concert hall called The Sage Gateshead, in the north of England, Frans Bruggen conducts the Northern Sinfonia in Haydn's last symphony: the Symphony No. 104 ...

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, ...

For the second week running, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra's (SSO) concert programme did not include a concerto or guest soloist, with German conductor Claus Peter Flor and orchestra choosing ...