The first thing one notices about this disc is the attractive sound, rounded yet detailed; the second is that the playing of the orchestra is stylish; last but not least, the soloist's first entry ...

Italian violinist Giuliano Carmignola takes a gritty, muscular approach to period-instrument performance, one that favors urgency and tonal sinew over finesse. After a series of first-rate recordings ...

A vibrant new recording under the direction of Harry Christophers. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 26 August 2013. In Harry Christophers’ expert hands, Haydn comes to life in this, the first in a ...

Haydn, Violin Concertos, Midori Seiler, violin and conductor with the Concerto Koln. (Berlin Classics). Haydn’s music, though the work of a master, often has to be “sold” in a kind of special way. Our ...

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, in concert in St. Paul, Minn. We're used to thinking of the 20th century as the high point of technological and cultural change. The case is easy to make: A ...

When I studied composition with the late Leonard Stein, one of my regular assignments was to compose minuets for string quartet “in the style of Mozart and Haydn.” It was no accident that Stein ...

Tchaikovsky's powerful Violin Concerto forms the stunning centerpiece of this live concert recording from the Auckland ...

Bavarian-Japanese violinist, Midori Seiler has been a long-term concertmaster of Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Anima Eterna Brugge. Seiler makes her Australian debut with the Australian Haydn ...

Stefano Montanari (violin), Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone (harpsichord) L'Oiseau Lyre 478 2243 *** The three concertos recorded here on period instruments are for keyboard (the Concerto in D, ...