While having been written over 200 years ago, Haydn’s music is still popular today. His innovative approach to composition has meant his work has stood the test of time. Haydn’s compositions are ...

Three distinctive Haydn symphonies, all in the key of D, all given taut, bracing, urgently propelled performances. Even the famous tick-tocking slow movement from No 101, the Clock, moves at quite a ...

Two ‘London’ Symphony recordings arrive emblazoned with icons of the city: Tower Bridge, largely obscured by Thomas Fey, and Parliament’s Elizabeth Tower, peeping out from behind a red letterbox. This ...

Nicholas McGegan is a conductor whose platform manner and music-making often manifest an unusually infectious bonhomie. It's a hugely attractive trait to bring to the late symphonies of Haydn, works ...

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.

Later in the Classical period, society and audiences began to change. As the middle-class grew wealthier, there was a growing demand for entertainment and more public concert halls had to be built. It ...