Recordings planned but never made

[MickyD]

Lucky you! I suppose the ensemble no longer exists. Many of the members also featured in other period bands. Indeed, the personnel of rhe Academy of Ancient Music at that time was virtually a roll-call of the period instrument movement, some of them becoming leaders of their own bands. So its' all history already, and it's fortunate they recorded as much as they did then.

Indeed it is. Hogwood's cycle nearly got to the number 80s, but he did at least give us four London symphonies as well. I have filled in the gaps with Kuijken and Dantone's discs to make up my complete cycle.

I do remember being so excited when Derek Solomons and his band brought out their first two boxes of symphonies on Saga - a real breath of fresh air.

[smittims]

Yes, micky, as I found recently when I discovered mint-condition copies in a favourite shop.

I was sorry that Decca chose to omit Hogwood's 'Sturm und Drang' symphonies from their big box in favour of Bruggen's recordings, but I came to admire Bruggen in time. And the name of his orchestra reminds me of John Postman's splendid book on how our 'distracted times' can learn form the Eighteenth century.

[Bryn]

Yes, micky, as I found recently when I discovered mint-condition copies in a favourite shop.

I was sorry that Decca chose to omit Hogwood's 'Sturm und Drang' symphonies from their big box in favour of Bruggen's recordings, but I came to admire Bruggen in time. And the name of his orchestra reminds me of John Postman's splendid book on how our 'distracted times' can learn form the Eighteenth century.

The way Decca behaved re the Hogwwod Haydn recordings was rather bizarre, issuing all bar 76 and 77 as a boxed set (the missing 76 and 77 had been separately issued as a BBC Music Magazine cover disc) then, shortly after, releasing the Hogwood, Bruggen and Dantone complete Haydn Symphonies box. I ended up getting both boxes.