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 ...

Demonstrating the many facets of the cello - from growling low chords to tripping semiquaver scales in the instrument's sweet high register - Haydn redefined orchestral playing with his fantastic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite having his own highly virtuosic orchestra, Haydn wrote his Trumpet Concerto for an old friend called Anton Weidinger, who was a member of the Imperial Court Orchestra in Vienna. Weidinger was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the lucky few in the audiences at Prince Esterházy’s palace in the mid-18th century every musical evening brought forth new delights from the pen of Haydn, court Kapellmeister. Il Pomo d’Oro, a ...