There is much to like in this group of Haydn orchestral pieces as rendered by the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and its violinist-leader Gordan Nikolic. The varied program is one -- a symphony, for most of the stretch from Haydn's time to our own, was regarded as the culmination of a sequence of events that would also include shorter works and would display the talents of a variety of soloists, and the mixture of an overture, the Sinfonia Concertante in B flat major, Op. 84, and a late symphony is intelligent and effective. ...
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There is much to like in this group of Haydn orchestral pieces as rendered by the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and its violinist-leader Gordan Nikolic. The varied program is one -- a symphony, for most of the stretch from Haydn's time to our own, was regarded as the culmination of a sequence of events that would also include shorter works and would display the talents of a variety of soloists, and the mixture of an overture, the Sinfonia Concertante in B flat major, Op. 84, and a late symphony is intelligent and effective. The rarely heard overture to the opera L'isola disabitata is another; the piece called forth from Haydn a slightly different outlook on orchestral-music structure than did the symphonic idiom. It's a colorful, fascinating little work that looks back to the three-movement Italian operatic sinfonia but, as usual with Haydn, gives it several interesting twists. Also noteworthy is the concluding performance of the Symphony No. 100 in G major, "Military." Nikolic plays up the prominent...
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