Over the last five decades, the period-instrument movement has steadily colonised more and more of the orchestral repertory. The process has been very fully documented on disc, so that there are now ...

In our daily series Armchair Arts, a Telegraph critic offers expert analysis. Today, Ivan Hewett looks at a playful but majestic work Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an ...

Symphony No. 1 Joseph Haydn, Composer Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor Symphony No. 37 Joseph Haydn, Composer Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor ...

Debates about "best" composers are silly, but in this year of Haydn, his admirers are seizing the opportunity to right a few wrongs when it comes to their favorite composer. And wronged they feel.

Symphony No. 96, 'Miracle' Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble Marc Minkowski, Conductor Joseph Haydn, Composer Symphony No. 95 Joseph Haydn, Composer Marc Minkowski, Conductor Les Musiciens du ...

A vibrant new recording under the direction of Harry Christophers. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 26 August 2013. In Harry Christophers’ expert hands, Haydn comes to life in this, the first in a ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. For most of us a standard diary, or a five-year one at best, is sufficient for booking engagements. Imagine having ...

The 13-year-old schoolboy wanted to know why no score was available for Haydn’s Symphony No. 58. His teacher told him that “forty years ago a German publisher [Breitkopf & Härtel] started out to ...

Austrian composer Joseph Haydn wrote over 100 symphonies, and almost as many string quartets, more than 50 keyboard sonatas, 14 masses, and 32 ‘pieces for mechanical clock’! Here are his 10 best.