Joseph Haydn died 200 years ago Sunday. He was, by any measure, a prolific composer. In addition to the five dozen or so string quartets, he wrote hundreds of trios, piano sonatas, oratorios, masses, ...

Sometimes a composer becomes so well known for a particular genre of music that other pieces go unrecognized. The following are three examples of composers who are famous for one thing but who ...

The easiest way for amateur music lovers to get to know orchestral pieces used to be through piano transcriptions and chamber arrangements. Liszt’s versions of Beethoven symphonies are the genre’s ...

Amazon mp3: NA | Amazon CD: $15 | ArkivMusic: $17 | Qobuz download: £11.5 - 15.5 (Hi-Res) | iTunes mp3: $12 The idea of combining the music of Joseph Haydn with that of György Ligeti is an inspired ...

Germany's top classical music prize, the Opus Klassik, goes to a recording of Joseph Haydn's music by the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. The making of the album is featured in a new DW ...

The American Classical Orchestra has unveiled its 41st season in 2025-26, with performances spanning four orchestral concerts led by Founder and Artistic Director Thomas Crawford at Alice Tully Hall, ...

Soaring beauty, spectacular, vocal fireworks and delicately coloured musical pictures: soprano arias from Haydn’s greatest operas and oratorios, including The Creation and The Seasons. This album is ...

The reason we play string quartet is that we want to share the heart of music with our audience. Music is communication, and the string quartet is the ultimate form of communication. We communicate ...

They are the Holy Trinity of Classical-era music, all of them synonymous in one way or another with Vienna. But what was the relationship between Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven? Did they even know each ...

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has released a rare, 11-volume collection of the composer’s 62 piano sonatas. By David Allen After opening its season at Alice Tully Hall, the orchestra found more congenial ...