Browse: Haydn (composer), Symphonies

A superb achievement. It's nigh-on impossible to imagine better 'big-band' Haydn than you encounter here on Colin Davis's four well-filled CDs. His direction has exemplary sparkle and sensitivity.... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The Basel Chamber Orchestra present a sound that is a touch sweeter than Il Giardino Armonico’s, although that familiar period-instrument ‘spit’ is still never absent...That sweetness suits these... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2018 More…

The performance is notably warmer and more personal [than his earlier accounts], it glows with affection for this life-enhancing music...[the Adagio of No. 99] unfolds with a sublime serenity... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The knowledge that Grisey himself died unexpectedly himself died unexpectedly at only 52 shortly before the work’s premiere only heightens the impact of this mesmeric recording. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

As in the previous volumes, the orchestral playing is breathtaking in its accuracy -the sort of Haydn playing you dream of…this may well become the period-instrument Haydn cycle by which all... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2017 More…

A superb achievement. It's nigh-on impossible to imagine better 'big-band' Haydn than you encounter here on Colin Davis's four well-filled CDs. His direction has exemplary sparkle and sensitivity.... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Christophers and the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston present a neatly turned-out Military Symphony, closer to the urbanity of Colin Davis than the rawer edges of Eugen Jochum or, on original... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2020 More…

The performances, though on modern instruments, pay attention to matters of period style - every repeat observed, careful balance between parts…the SCO is everywhere on wonderfully characterful... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…