BaL 26.04.14 - Haydn Symphony no. 101 "Clock"

[BBMmk2]

I have the Concertgebouw/Sir Colin Davis complete cycle of these 'Kondon Symphonies'. They did rather well the last time, one had a BaL. So hoping for the winner this time round?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

There is I think a Hamilton Harty recording from 1927, so nearly 90, but I'm not sure if that one will be included in the review.

http://www.operapassion.com/cdhasyinhire.html

[Thropplenoggin]

I was going to post a link to the British Library's sound archive of pre-1957 Haydn symphony recordings (if anyone is interested in such things) but the relevant BL server appears to be down at the moment.

I'd say that's a safe affirmative on this forum, HD.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Still have my first purchase, VPO/Monteux, for which I have a sentimental fondness despite adding (at least) Dorati and Davis

[richardfinegold]

Still have my first purchase, VPO/Monteux, for which I have a sentimental fondness despite adding (at least) Dorati and Davis

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I have only Dorati (twice).

[Don Petter]

I have only Dorati (twice).

Adoratus non satis est?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I just had a single CD version, but then bought the full box set.

[verismissimo]

I have only Dorati (twice).

I have two Doratis, but my other one is with the LSO from 1968 (nla, I guess). Was this the recording that persuaded Decca to do a whole cycle with him and his Hungarians, I wonder?

[EdgeleyRob]

I only have the Dorati Hungarica as part of the complete box set.

Don't forget there are two free to listen to complete sets in the reference library (three versions of many of the Symphonies)

http://www.haydn107.com/index.php?id=1&lng=2

[HighlandDougie]

The technology has recovered. Here's the BL link:

http://sounds.bl.uk/Classical-music/Haydn

[reinerfan]

I don't know whether you would consider this readily available, but the Leslie Jones version, together with all his other Haydn Symphony recordings, is available from Haydn House in USA. Leslie Jones has always been one of my favourite Haydn conductors and it is such a pity that the set was not completed.

[aeolium]

I don't know whether you would consider this readily available, but the Leslie Jones version, together with all his other Haydn Symphony recordings, is available from Haydn House in USA. Leslie Jones has always been one of my favourite Haydn conductors and it is such a pity that the set was not completed.

Yes, I remember some of those recordings from way back in the LP era (were they on Nonesuch?) I also have a couple of enjoyable discs of Max Goberman and the Vienna State Orchestra from Haydn House, though this set was also unfinished and I think there is no recording of no 101.

[Tony Halstead]

I don't know whether you would consider this readily available, but the Leslie Jones version, together with all his other Haydn Symphony recordings, is available from Haydn House in USA. Leslie Jones has always been one of my favourite Haydn conductors and it is such a pity that the set was not completed.

I could equally well say / write:

Max Goberman has always been one of my favourite Haydn conductors and it is such a pity that the set was not completed.

Derek Solomons has always been one of my favourite Haydn conductors and it is such a pity that the set was not completed.

Roy Goodman has always been one of my favourite Haydn conductors and it is such a pity that the set was not completed.

Christopher Hogwood has always been one of my favourite Haydn conductors and it is such a pity that the set was not completed.

Trevor Pinnock has always been one of my favourite Haydn conductors and it is such a pity that the set was not completed.

Although we know that Haydn was a great composer of symphonies, and justly famous especially in the latter part of his long life, could it be that - unlike Mozart or Beethoven - he simply isn't, now, in our day and age, a 'box-office composer'?

[rauschwerk]

Although we know that Haydn was a great composer of symphonies, and justly famous especially in the latter part of his long life, could it be that - unlike Mozart or Beethoven - he simply isn't, now, in our day and age, a 'box-office composer'?

That's absolutely true, I think. As a Haydn enthusiast, I often try and persuade people (not with much success) that in his different way he was just as fine a composer as Mozart.