The host of Now Hear This and Mexico City Philharmonic music director shares the pieces by Joseph Haydn, also known as “the king of strings,” that mean the most to him. A playlist is available where ...

I had the pleasure and privilege of conducting Haydn's Symphony No 80 in D minor in Salzburg recently. It's an astonishing work, full of surprises, and almost completely unknown. The first movement is ...

To mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn, Ted Libbey considers the great composer's final set of symphonies. Joseph Haydn's last 12 symphonies, commissioned by the London impresario ...

The String Quartet version op. 51 Hob XX/1B is the most often performed and recorded. But it is not the original and only presumably (though not certainly) a transcription of his own – as opposed to ...

The 53rd season for Chamber Singers of Iowa City concludes our journey from darkness to light with a performance of Joseph Haydn’s masterpiece, The Creation. Completed in 1798, this oratorio remains ...

Is Joseph Haydn's music boring? Not at all, say Paavo Järvi and the musicians of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. On their musical journey through Haydn's symphonic works, they discover new and ...

Twenty outstanding Haydn recordings, featuring René Jacobs, Claudio Abbado, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Alison Balsom, Alfred Brendel and many more Joseph Haydn's works have inspired some of the greatest ...

Haydn was among the most prolific of all great composers and he wrote in every form: 104 symphonies, nearly 90 string quartets, 62 piano sonatas, dozens of concertos, oratorios, masses and choral ...