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 ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Il Pomo d'Oro Joseph Haydn, Composer Riccardo Minasi, Director, Violin Concerto for Horn and Orchestra No. 1 Riccardo Minasi, Conductor Joseph Haydn, Composer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Concertos for what? The Lire Organizzate was a hybrid street instrument popular in the late 1700s that pitched up somewhere between a hurdy gurdy and a chamber organ. The instrument was beloved of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Haydn's violin concertos are a bit of a puzzle. He composed four in all, of which the Second is lost. The First was written in 1765 for one Luigi Tomasini, an Italian violinist at the Esterháza court.

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 ...

A Haydn Concerto, A Virtuosic Teenage Cellist, and an Homage to Bach : From the Top A brilliant young trumpeter performs the music of Haydn. He's joined by a 15-year-old cellist performing a classic ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Helmut Müller-Brühl, Conductor Joseph Haydn, Composer Cologne Chamber Orchestra Augustin Hadelich, Violin Concerto for Violin and Strings Helmut Müller-Brühl, ...