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Jacket EX / LP NM German pressing - white circle label - DDD stereo Wrote the wonderful critic and writer David Hurwitz for ClassicsToday.com: "Haydn's symphonies remain the step-children of the record catalog, particularly the early and middle-period works. Why this should be so remains a mystery. Listen to these two pieces, so different in character. No. 48 is all pomp and festivity, with wild horn parts (this performance omits the later addition of timpani); No. 49 is Haydn's greatest (and last) piece in "church sonata" form, with an opening slow movement, and it's grounded in his personal key for expressing loneliness, desolation, and tragic emotion--F minor. No other composer of the period, and few since--not even Mozart--had as wide an emotional range at his command as Haydn shows in these two masterpieces. "Fortunately, they are wonderfully played here by
Haydn Symphonies where to start?
Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 48 'Maria Theresia' & 49 'La Passione' - Deutsche Grammophon: 4196072 - Presto CD or download
Franz Joseph Haydn, Derek Solomons, L'Estro Armonico - Haydn: Symphonies 35, 38, 39, 49, 58, 59 'Fire' (Sturm und Drang Symphonies, Vol. 7)
Haydn: Symphonies 35, 38, 39, 49, 58, 59 'Fire' Sturm und Drang Symphonies, Vol. 7
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Franz Joseph Haydn, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Polish Chamber Orchestra - Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 44- 49, H. 1: 44-49 - Music
Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 44- 49, H. 1: 44-49