However, the nickname of the Symphony Number 104 “London” is not derived from any musical component, but is instead a rather arbitrary name given to the last of Haydn’s so-called “London Symphonies,” ...

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 ...

Richard Wigmore for Building a Library sifts through some of the available recordings of Haydn Symphony No. 99 in E flat and comes up with a recommendation. By the time Haydn wrote his ninety-ninth ...

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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 ...

“Symphonies 93, 94 & 95” just seems so dull in comparison, more suggestive of a tradesman meeting an order for a set of pots and pans than an inspired genius. And yet the miracle is that almost every ...

Frances Fyfield is in the British Library to look at the handwritten manuscript of one of Josef Haydn's London Symphonies, the Drum Roll. Show more Josef Haydn's two visits to London produced the ...

Jeremy Nicholas introduces a piano transcription of Haydn’s Largo cantabile from Symphony No 93 by Julius Schulhoff. The sheet music for the work appears in our Spring 2025 issue Spina, the Viennese ...

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