Claudio Abbado's 2-CD set of late Mozart symphonies was a highlight of 2008, with sales of 15,000 worldwide. What better way to celebrate one of the important anniversaries of 2009 than to restore to the catalogue Abbado's survey of late Haydn Symphonies from the late Eighties / early Nineties with one of his favourite ensembles, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe? Although he never completed his "London" Symphonies cycle, the four CDs offer "a paradigm of modern-instrument Haydn fully attuned to the 18th-century spirit as well as to the composer's wit and mastery of the orchestra" (Fanfare, 2008)

Includes the Sinfonia Concertante Hob. I: 105 (the 105th "symphony") and the Overture to "Il mondo della luna"