COMPOSERS: Haydn
LABELS: Decca
WORKS: 24 Minuets Hob. IX: 16
PERFORMER: Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati
CATALOGUE NO: 436 220-2 ADD (1976)
These splendid, richly orchestrated minuets were only published in 1972. They contain delicate, robust, dramatic, sad – even wistful – music from Haydn’s post-London period of The Creation, played with great panache by the Hungarians and conducted by the man who has recorded the most Haydn in our century. HC Robbins Landon
Haydn: 24 Minuets Hob. IX: 16
These splendid, richly orchestrated minuets were only published in 1972. They contain delicate, robust, dramatic, sad – even wistful – music from Haydn’s post-London period of The Creation, played with great panache by the Hungarians and conducted by the man who has recorded the most Haydn in our century. HC Robbins Landon
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Published: January 20, 2012 at 2:36 pm