Debates about "best" composers are silly, but in this year of Haydn, his admirers are seizing the opportunity to right a few wrongs when it comes to their favorite composer. And wronged they feel.

Throughout the week Classic FM’s presenters bring you the best new recordings, including world exclusives and premiere broadcasts of latest releases. Picture: Classic FM John Suchet plays a track from ...

Throughout the week Classic FM’s presenters bring you the best new recordings, including world exclusives and premiere broadcasts of latest releases. This week: Beethoven’s World – Clement: Violin ...

A well-known pianist colleague confessed a dislike of Haydn because “his music is like playing parlour games in Latin.” So let’s play some parlour games: In what year did Mozartkugeln (chocolate balls ...

Orchestra London’s principal trumpet Shawn Spicer is probably the last man to toot his own horn. So Spicer laughed with self-mocking merriment when an admirer suggested his performance of Haydn’s ...

We’re often told that music is about “feelings”. But a lot of classical music offers something else entirely. The great writer on music Hans Keller defined it as “the pleasurably delayed gratification ...

They are the Holy Trinity of Classical-era music, all of them synonymous in one way or another with Vienna. But what was the relationship between Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven? Did they even know each ...

Joseph Haydn died 200 years ago Sunday. He was, by any measure, a prolific composer. In addition to the five dozen or so string quartets, he wrote hundreds of trios, piano sonatas, oratorios, masses, ...