As a job application, it didn't go so well for J.S. Bach. In 1721 he dedicated six concertos to Christian Ludwig, the Margrave (Marquess) of Brandenburg and the younger brother of King Frederick I of ...

Spirited and virtuosic performances of Haydn's best-known piano concertos. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 15 September 2014. The French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has already won critical acclaim ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. After his successes with Haydn’s piano sonatas the ever-inquisitive Jean-Efflam Bavouzet moves on to the three ...

Though Haydn was one of the greatest masters of good cheer in music, these three keyboard concertos (Nos 3, 4, and 11) straddle the transition from the harpsichord to the piano and often sound ...

Whenever Handel and Haydn Society concertmaster Aisslinn Nosky leads the ensemble through a full performance of J.S. Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos, audience members often comment something to the ...

At this stage of her career, every new recording by Martha Argerich is welcome. This is not the first time she has committed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1 to disc, but the partnership with conductor ...

Ekaterina Derzhavina's name was new to me, but this 9-CD set of Haydn's complete piano sonatas should broaden her recognition considerably. Her playing is elegant, stylish, and above all imaginative, ...

What’s a little less Lang Lang and a little less Haydn in the over-the-top final weeks of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s exceedingly generous centennial season? Gustavo Dudamel had planned a ...

Joseph Haydn was an Austrian musician who spent most of his career in the service of an aristocratic family in Hungary but became one of the most famous and well-respected composers of his time. As ...

Joseph Haydn was an Austrian musician who spent most of his career in the service of an aristocratic family in Hungary but became one of the most famous and well-respected composers of his time. As ...