Cobweb Orchestra, which spans from Cumbria to parts of the northeast, completed the project which took nearly five years. The brainchild of local Cumbrian conductor Peter Wood, the scheme was hatched ...

A complete cycle of Haydn’s 104 symphonies on period instruments has always seemed just out of reach. After two earlier cycles were aborted part way through Decca decided to bring those together and ...

Joseph Haydn is every bit the equal of Mozart and Beethoven but loses out in popular appeal because he was so prolific. Very few of his invariably excellent pieces stand out from the crowd the way ...

Haydn’s symphonies–104 in all, produced over a four-decade span–chart the growth of a facile compositional mind as well as a genre that would become the foundation of the classical canon. Even the ...

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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.

To mark the 200th anniversary of his death BBC Radio 3 presents a series of programming on Haydn, an international superstar composer who, in his day, was considered more famous than Mozart. Haydn is ...

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Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The American Classical Orchestra has unveiled its 41st season in 2025-26, ...