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.
Haydn: Symphony No. 93, 94 and 95 (Hanover Band; Roy Goodman, conductor; Hyperion). Sabotaged by cavernous sound, Goodman’s cycles of Beethoven and Schubert symphonies nonetheless contained a good ...