If it weren’t for Mozart, Franz Joseph Haydn would be the most famous composer of the Classical era. And yet, Haydn and Mozart were friends and mutual admirers, and Beethoven studied composition with ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- "Having a beer with Haydn" was the title of one of a number of casual sketches by pianist Roman Rabinovich, projected on a screen in Glick Recital Hall at the Music Settlement last ...

Ekaterina Derzhavina's name was new to me, but this 9-CD set of Haydn's complete piano sonatas should broaden her recognition considerably. Her playing is elegant, stylish, and above all imaginative, ...

Joseph Haydn spent three decades of his life perfecting his art at the Esterhazy Palace, south of Vienna. Music is still performed at the Palace and The Haydn Trio Eisenstadt is one of the groups that ...

There’s my next Christmas present sorted, then: the box of all 11 volumes of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s complete Haydn survey, please (surely Chandos must be planning it?). And that’s saying a lot, from ...

Hailed for his musical originality and innovation, Russian composer and pianist Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) was considered so avant-garde in his early days that he hardly seemed influenced by the ...

The first volume of Naxos’s new series of Haydn piano trios includes the most famous Haydn trio of all, the one nicknamed the Gypsy Rondo Trio, after its Rondo all’ Ongarese finale. It’s one of a set ...

If you like to hear Haydn sonatas crisply delivered, i's dotted, t's crossed, with good fingerwork, and in a clean recording, then the Chandos cycle by French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet should have ...

Keyboard Trio No. 18 (Sonata) Joseph Haydn, Composer Trio Wanderer Keyboard Trio No. 21 (Sonata) Joseph Haydn, Composer Trio Wanderer Keyboard Trio No. 26 (Sonata) Joseph Haydn, Composer Trio Wanderer ...