Mozart wrote many concertos, Haydn a mere handful. The reasons are fairly obvious - Haydn was not a virtuoso himself, and his secure gig with the Eszterhazy family meant that he didn't have to compete ...

On period instruments the wind concertos of the classical era take on a different personality. The plush uniformity of modern instruments is replaced by solo playing of quirky charisma. In Mozart’s ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Il Pomo d'Oro Joseph Haydn, Composer Riccardo Minasi, Director, Violin Concerto for Horn and Orchestra No. 1 Riccardo Minasi, Conductor Joseph Haydn, Composer ...

An organ concerto is an odd duck. It doesn't fit into a church service, and most 18th-century theaters didn't have organs. But Haydn probably wrote his Organ Concerto in C to honor an old girlfriend ...

Concertos for what? The Lire Organizzate was a hybrid street instrument popular in the late 1700s that pitched up somewhere between a hurdy gurdy and a chamber organ. The instrument was beloved of ...

The prize-winning cellist joins forces with Camerata Chicago for Haydn's concertos - and a rarity from a Czech composer. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 16 September 2013. Cellist Wendy Warner shot ...

Valery Saul, the the Arkansas Symphony's associate conductor, takes over the podium, in lieu of a guest conductor this season ...

Haydn's violin concertos are a bit of a puzzle. He composed four in all, of which the Second is lost. The First was written in 1765 for one Luigi Tomasini, an Italian violinist at the Esterháza court.

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 ...

Concerto for Keyboard and Orchestra Ronald Brautigam, Fortepiano Concerto Copenhagen Joseph Haydn, Composer Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Conductor Concerto for Keyboard and Orchestra Concerto Copenhagen ...