Haydn Edition

The supreme, voluptuary realist of French painting, Jean Ingres, exclaimed that Haydn was music’s alpha and omega: ‘Whoever studies music, let his daily bread be Haydn...the first who created everything, discovered everything, taught everything to the rest!’ While an intervening century or two of musicology might tell us that if Haydn was father to the symphony and string quartet, there were some interesting midwives among his contemporaries, Haydn’s sheer industry remains unequalled; but so too his creative facility and fertility in returning to the well time and time again, and never returning empty.

In this first volume of Brilliant Classics’s survey of Haydn’s music, issued to mark the 200th anniversary of his death in 1809, are many of his most famous works: all 104 symphonies, his two oratorios of imperishable power and beauty, The Creation and The Seasons, as well as another with much no less striking music, The Return of Tobit. There are several of the operas he wrote for the court at Eszterhaza, where he was more or less a servant-prisoner for most of his adult life, and – a first on disc – a complete recording of the 126 trios written at the behest of the court’s prince for an obsolete string instrument, the baryton, in which the prince had himself attained a modest accomplishment.

Most of the string quartets are here too, in recordings made especially for Brilliant by the Buchberger Quartet, and historically informed interpretations of the complete piano sonatas on instruments of Haydn’s day. This is a significant contribution to the anniversary of one of the great composers, with much new material, and at an unbeatable price.

Bonus CD-ROM contains song texts and a specially commissioned essay
exploring Haydn’s music, genre by genre, by the renowned Haydn authority, Richard Wigmore

New recordings of bayton fios and other chamber works made especially for this set and not previously released.

Include:

• Symphonies Nos. 1 - 104 (complete)
  Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, Adam Fischer
• Violin Concerto No. 1 in C major, Hob.VIIa:1
  Federico Guglielmo (violin)
  L’Arte dell’Arco (on period instruments)
• Violin Concerto No. 4 in G major, Hob.VIIa:4
  Federico Guglielmo (violin)
  L’Arte dell’Arco (on period instruments)
• Violin Concerto No. 3 in A major, Hob.VIIa:3 'Melker Konzert'
  Federico Guglielmo (violin)
  L’Arte dell’Arco (on period instruments)
• Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, Hob. VIIb:1
  Christine Walevska (cello)
  English Chamber Orchestra, Edo de Waart
• Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, Hob. VIIb:2 (Op. 101)
  Christine Walevska (cello)
  English Chamber Orchestra, Edo de Waart
• Keyboard Concerto No. 11 in D major, HobXVIII:11
• Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in G major, Hob.XVIII:4
• Keyboard Concerto No. 3 in F major with French horns and strings, Hob.XVIII:3
• Organ Concerto, Hob. XIV:11 in C major
• Organ Concerto, Hob. XIV:12 in C major
• Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, Hob. VIIe:1
• Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major, Hob.VIId:3
• Horn Concerto No. 2 in D major, Hob.VIId:4
• Concerti A Due Lire for The King of Naples, Nos. 1-5
• Mass, Hob. XXII: 9 in C major 'Paukenmesse'
• Mass, Hob. XXII: 6 in G major 'Nicolaimesse'
• Mass, Hob. XXII:14 in B flat major 'Harmoniemesse'
• Mass, Hob. XXII: 8 in C major - Missa Cellensis 'Mariazellermesse'
• Mass, Hob. XXII: 5 in C major 'Cäcilienmesse'
• Mass, Hob. XXII: 4 in E flat major 'Große Orgelmesse'
• Stabat Mater
• The Seasons
• The Creation
• La vera constanza
• Die Feuersbrunst oder das abgebrannte Haus Marionetten, Hob.XXIXb:A
• La fedeltà premiata
• L'infedeltà delusa
• Il ritorno di Tobia
• String Quartets (complete)
• String Quartet, Op. 51 'Seven Last Words'
• Piano Trios (complete)
• Baryton Trios Nos. 1-126 (complete)
• Divertimento
• Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-62 (complete)
• The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross, Hob XX/2 (Choral version)

The Creation