Haydn

Sunday Classics snapshots: Swinging Haydn with Vilmos Tatrai playing and conducting

Down With Tyranny - 2015-09-06 - Original post - Cached copy

Violinist and conductor Tátrai (1912-1999)Symphony No. 31 in D (Horn Signal) (1765):i. AllegroSymphony No. 73 in D (La chasse) (The Hunt) (1782)iv. PrestoHungarian Chamber Orchestra, Vilmos Tátrai, cond. Hungaroton, recorded 1965by KenSo I noticed this CD lying atop one of the millions of piles of CDs I've finally been trying to organize, and it didn't instantly ring a bell: a pair of D major sort of hunt-themed Haydn symphonies -- the Horn Signal, No.

Sunday Classics report: The Schneider Quartet's legendary Haydn recordings finally make it to CD!

Down With Tyranny - 2014-11-16 - Original post - Cached copy

The cover of the booklet accompanying the indispensable Music and Arts CD reissue of the legendary not-quite-complete 1951-53 Haydn Society cycle of the Haydn string quartets by the Schneider Quartetby KenFor decades now it has been one of the gaps in the ranks of available recordings, through much of the LP era and, until now, the whole of the CD era.

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