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      This morning: Elgar's 4 Dances for Winds

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        The Haydn recordings by Manfred Huss and the Haydn Sinfonietta Wien have been being steadily re-released on BIS for the last few years. Finally they have gotten to the Complete Early Divertimenti. I've been looking forward to this for a while, and that's what I'm listening to for the next few days.

        Hob. II:1-3, 7-9, 11, 14-17, 20-24, 46 D22, G1
        Hob. IV:5
        Hob. XIV:1
        Hob. VIIa:1 (Why they decided to throw the first violin concerto in there, I'm not sure)
        Hob. VIII:3, 3bis

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          Originally posted by Chris View Post
          The Haydn recordings by Manfred Huss and the Haydn Sinfonietta Wien have been being steadily re-released on BIS for the last few years. Finally they have gotten to the Complete Early Divertimenti. I've been looking forward to this for a while, and that's what I'm listening to for the next few days.

          Hob. II:1-3, 7-9, 11, 14-17, 20-24, 46 D22, G1
          Hob. IV:5
          Hob. XIV:1
          Hob. VIIa:1 (Why they decided to throw the first violin concerto in there, I'm not sure)
          Hob. VIII:3, 3bis
          Chris, Really lovely music that is.
          You've got, or at least know, the Notturni H.II-24-30 and the scherzandi H.II:31-38? "Later" Haydn, but these are as fresh as the (much) earlier ones you've planned to listen to now (and also with some surprises in terms of recycled material)

          It is a pity that the Hoboken catalogue is not easy to use regarding different versions of works, the 7 Last words being a good case, or of attributed works.
          IIRC the violin concerto in C H.VIIa:1 is one of those attributed ones, Tomasini being the likely composer of the work, of which AFAIK a score for smaller forces in Haydn's hand exists as well, the latter explaining why it is attributed to Haydn, as well as why Schwann/Bis considers this to be a Divertimento concertante.

          I guess the asterisked Hoboken-numbers (*) in your post 163 allude to works attributed to Haydn, or at least of doubtful authorship?

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            Originally posted by Roehre View Post
            Chris, Really lovely music that is.
            You've got, or at least know, the Notturni H.II-24-30 and the scherzandi H.II:31-38? "Later" Haydn, but these are as fresh as the (much) earlier ones you've planned to listen to now (and also with some surprises in terms of recycled material)
            Yes indeed. I have the Notturni performed by the Slovak Chamber Orchestra/Warchal and the Scherzandi by the Berlin Haydn-Ensemble/Hartog with Hansjorg Schellenberger and Emmanuel Pahud. Huss's group also recorded these, but I passed on that in favor of these recordings. Maybe I'll pick those up at some point just to have all of his Haydn recordings.

            It is a pity that the Hoboken catalogue is not easy to use regarding different versions of works, the 7 Last words being a good case, or of attributed works.
            Yes, there is some difficulty there. Actually, the most annoying thing about it is that the only online version I have found is in French! I have tried to use it to see what Haydn composed that I don't have recordings of, and from what I can tell, there are some works which still have not been recorded, such as some of the dances.

            IIRC the violin concerto in C H.VIIa:1 is one of those attributed ones, Tomasini being the likely composer of the work, of which AFAIK a score for smaller forces in Haydn's hand exists as well, the latter explaining why it is attributed to Haydn, as well as why Schwann/Bis considers this to be a Divertimento concertante.
            Interesting. I have never heard that the work was of doubtful authenticity. The liner notes on this recording just say it was written by Haydn for Tomasini. Another recording I have of it makes no mention of this in the notes either.

            I guess the asterisked Hoboken-numbers (*) in your post 163 allude to works attributed to Haydn, or at least of doubtful authorship?
            Yes. I didn't think anyone would bother to read it that closely!

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              Today:

              Julian Philips:
              Ricochets Between (2010) (R3: lunchtime concert)

              Mahler:
              Symphony no.1 (Mitropoulos / MinneapolisSO 1940)

              Searle:
              Symphony nr.3 op.36 (1959/’60)

              Sweelinck:
              Mein junges Leben hat ein End

              Höller:
              Sweelinck-variations op.56 (1951)

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