If it weren’t for Mozart, Franz Joseph Haydn would be the most famous composer of the Classical era. And yet, Haydn and Mozart were friends and mutual admirers, and Beethoven studied composition with ...

Ticket seller: Here are your tickets, enjoy the show. Usher: Your tickets, please. Follow me. Jeff Spurgeon: In New York City, there are lots of ways to get to Carnegie Hall, a subway, a taxi, a walk ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the course of 2023 a select number of big recording projects came to fruition, prime among them Jean-Efflam ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Haydn piano sonatas, a Shostakovich explosion and the fantastical opera “Sweet Land” are among the highlights. Paul Lewis (Harmonia Mundi) Not all ...

These days, the string quartet as an ensemble is a tried and true form of chamber music, but it’s only within the past three ...

Ekaterina Derzhavina's name was new to me, but this 9-CD set of Haydn's complete piano sonatas should broaden her recognition considerably. Her playing is elegant, stylish, and above all imaginative, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. After his successes with Haydn’s piano sonatas the ever-inquisitive Jean-Efflam Bavouzet moves on to the three ...

The young Beethoven - just over a week past his 20th birthday - first met the renowned Joseph Haydn on 26 December 1790 in Bonn, when Haydn and the impresario Johann Peter Salomon stopped off on their ...

10-year-old pianist Sum received the surprise of a lifetime when he performed a Haydn piano sonata for his hero in Edinburgh, for Channel 4’s ‘The Piano’. With The Piano back on television screens for ...

Roman Rabinovich – born in Uzbekistan and raised in Israel, and an alumnus of both Juilliard and Curtis – has started a Haydn piano sonata cycle for First Hand Records. The first volume has been ...

Jeremy Nicholas introduces a piano transcription of Haydn’s Largo cantabile from Symphony No 93 by Julius Schulhoff. The sheet music for the work appears in our Spring 2025 issue Spina, the Viennese ...