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HAYDN EDITION
150 CD SET
The supreme, voluptuary realist of French painting, Jean Ingres, exclaimed that Haydn was music’s alpha and omega: ‘Whoever studies music, let his daily bread be Haydn...the first who created everything, discovered everything, taught everything to the rest!’ While an intervening century or two of musicology might tell us that if Haydn was father to the symphony and string quartet, there were some interesting midwives among his contemporaries, Haydn’s sheer industry remains unequalled; but so too his creative facility and fertility in returning to the well time and time again, and never returning empty. In this first volume of Brilliant Classics’s survey of Haydn’s music, issued to mark the 200th anniversary of his death in 1809, are many of his most famous works: all 104 symphonies, his two oratorios of imperishable power and beauty, The Creation and The Seasons, as well as another with much no less striking music, The Return of Tobit. There are several of the operas he wrote for the court at Eszterhaza, where he was more or less a servant-prisoner for most of his adult life, and - a first on disc - a complete recording of the 126 trios written at the behest of the court’s prince for an obsolete string instrument, the baryton, in which the prince had himself attained a modest accomplishment. Most of the string quartets are here too, in recordings made especially for Brilliant by the Buchberger Quartet, and historically informed interpretations of the complete piano sonatas on instruments of Haydn’s day. This is a significant contribution to the anniversary of one of the great composers, with much new material, and at an unbeatable price.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Bonus CD-ROM contains song texts and a specially commissioned essay
exploring Haydn’s music, genre by genre, by the renowned Haydn authority, Richard Wigmore
New recordings of bayton fios and other chamber works made especially for this set and not previously released
( Brilliant Classics )
SYMPHONIES (Complete) 33-CD
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, Adam Fischer
PIANO CONCERTOS (complete) 1-CD
Jolanda Violante, pianoforte; L’Arte dell’Arco, Federico Guglielmo
VIOLIN CONCERTOS (complete) 1-CD
L’Arte dell’Arco, Fedrico Guglielmo
ORGAN CONCERTOS (complete) 2-CD
Anton Holzapfel, organ; Dolce Risonanza
TRUMPET CONCERTO/HORN CONCERTOS (complete) 1-CD
Alan Stringer, trumpet; Hermann Baumann, horn
Academy of St-Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
CELLO CONCERTOS (complete) 1-CD
Christine Walevska, cello
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
LIRA CONCERTOS (complete) 1-CD
Hugo Ruf, lira; Susanne Lautenbacher Ensemble
MASSES/STABAT MATER 6-CD
Wiener Kammerchor und - Orchester, Hans Gillesberger
DIE JAHRESZEITEN/DIE SCHOPFUNG 4-CD
Donath, Widmer, Kraus, Scherr
Orchester der Ludwigsburger Festspiele, Wolfgang Gonnenwein
OPERAS:
La Vera Costanza 2-CD
Der Feuerbrunst 1-CD
La Fedelta Premiata 2-CD
Zomeropera Orchestra, Frank van Koten
L’Infedelta Delusa 2-CD
Kalmar, Paszty, Gregor
Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra, Frigyes Sandor
ORATORIUM:
Il Ritorno Di Tobia 3-CD
Kalmar, Kincses, Takacs
Hungarian State Orchestra, Ferenc Szekeres
Die Sieben Letzte Worte 1-CD
Chamber Choir of Europe, Nicol Matt
SCOTTISH SONGS (complete) 18-CD
Lorna Anderson, Jamie McDougall; Haydn-Trio Eisenstadt
SONGS (complete) 2-CD
Elly Ameling, Joerg Demus
ENGLISH CANZONETTAS 1-CD
Adrienne Csengery, Malcolm Bilson
STRING QUARTETS 20-CD
Buchberger Quartet
PIANO TRIOS (complete) 10-CD
Van Swieten Trio
BARYTON TRIOS (complete) 20-CD
Esterhazy Ensemble
WORKS FOR LUTE & STRINGS (complete) 1`-CD
Jakob Lindberg, lute; Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
Concertini & Divertimenti for piano trio. 2-CD
Haydn-Trio Eisenstadt
PIANO SONATAS (complete) 10-CD
Bart van Oort, Riko Fukuda, Ursula Dutschler, Stanley Hoogland, Yoshiko Kojima, fortepiano
KLAVIERSTUCKE (complete) 5-CD
Bart van Oort, fortepiano
