Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the course of 2023 a select number of big recording projects came to fruition, prime among them Jean-Efflam ...

To mark the 200th anniversary of his death BBC Radio 3 presents a series of programming on Haydn, an international superstar composer who, in his day, was considered more famous than Mozart. Haydn is ...

In our latest introduction to the history and recordings of a less familiar work, David Threasher explores a choral gem that remains off many people’s radar: Michael Haydn's Requiem in C minor Michael ...

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Haydn composed 60 sonatas for the piano between the 1750s and 1795. Though six are lost, it represents a significant body of work and, having fallen rather out of fashion in recent years, is now being ...

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This year marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Austrian composer Joseph Haydn. Haydn spent much of his career in service to nobility, situated far away from the musical mainstream. He once said ...