Joseph Haydn deserves credit as the composer who significantly developed the symphony (and equally the string quartet) in terms of it's musical content, scoring and form and who ultimately canonised...
This mammoth, 33-CD set of all 104 symphonies by Haydn marks one of the most ambitious recording projects of the last ten years; they were recorded in the Haydnsaal of the Esterhazy Palace in...
All the recordings presented here were made 'off-air' using a state-of-the-art tape machine. Subsequently they were archived on disc acetates - the tapes themselves being erased and reused. The...