In place of the usual jumbled compilation discs, Harmonia Mundi has collected some of its recent Haydn releases into something entirely new: a survey of Haydn's career, in Spanish and English, contained in a hardbound 80-page booket with numerous full-color artworks from Haydn's time and other illustrations. The writing by Charles Johnston is engaging, and the illustrations, many of them archtectural images, are beautifully chosen to give a real sense of Haydn's surroundings. As with any artificially generated compilation, ...
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In place of the usual jumbled compilation discs, Harmonia Mundi has collected some of its recent Haydn releases into something entirely new: a survey of Haydn's career, in Spanish and English, contained in a hardbound 80-page booket with numerous full-color artworks from Haydn's time and other illustrations. The writing by Charles Johnston is engaging, and the illustrations, many of them archtectural images, are beautifully chosen to give a real sense of Haydn's surroundings. As with any artificially generated compilation, the musical contents are something of a mixed bag, but this two-disc set has the virtue of being state-of-the-art: many of the individual recordings had not yet been released when this album appeared. As a collection of recordings showing new musical thinking about Haydn it works quite well, with vivid natural brasses in the Summer section of Haydn's Die Jahreszeiten and several fortepiano performances, including a fine reading of the Keyboard Concerto in D major, Hob. 18/11, by...
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