Some days, it really seems like everybody who came after him was just sort of thrashing about, maybe doing great stuff sometimes, sure, but never with the grace and elegance and economy and style of the guy who can lay claim to the "Father of the Symphony" title. Today is one of those days for me. Everybody show love to Franz Josef, because he is that dude.
― Just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter (J0hn D.), Thursday, 16 April 2009 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
"The Creation": badass
― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Thursday, 16 April 2009 15:34 (fourteen years ago) link
dan otm
― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 April 2009 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
http://cover6.cduniverse.com/CDUCoverArt/Music/36/7363836.jpg
― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 April 2009 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i go back and forth on fjh, but when he hits the spot, and it'll usually be with a string quartet or a symphony, yeah, he seems like the only thing. the fact he recognised mozart was greater than him is to his credit too.
Haydn died at the end of May in 1809, shortly after an attack on Vienna by the French army under Napoleon. He was 77. Among his last words was his attempt to calm and reassure his servants when cannon shot fell in the neighborhood (Geiringer 1982, p. 189). "My children, have no fear, for where Haydn is, no harm can fall." Two weeks later, a memorial service was held in the Schottenkirche on June 15, 1809, at which Mozart's Requiem was performed.
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm a fan. John D. otm: His music rarely seems Great in the accepted grandiose, lapel-grabbing sense, but it's consistently wonderful.
― DLee, Friday, 17 April 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Bam - bam - bam - bam - bam - bam - bamBam - bam - bam - bam - bam - bam - bamBam - bam - bam - bam - bam - bam - bamTa - ta - ta - ta - ta - taa BAAAAAM!!!
Classic for that one alone. And great trumpet concerto too :)
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 18 April 2009 01:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Looks like Mostly Mozart is doing The Creation this year.
― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
is this Hayden or Westbam
― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I have definitely had similar thoughts about classical music after Haydn. Chopin, though, was a profound exception to any negative general perceptions that one might make about Romantic music. And I do think that Chopin's respect for some of his contemporaries and immediate precursors (Beethoven, Weber, Mendelssohn) is, at the very least on a structural and theoretical basis, notable.
― timellison, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
It's Haydn, his 94th symphony, more known as "Surprise". :)
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
This is incredible:
http://harmoniamundi.com/Publish/album/1362/2961994_G.jpg
― worm? lol (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 13:19 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL WikiAnswers:
Q: was joseph haydn black?A: No. He was born in Austria.
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahaha
― worm? lol (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 13:28 (fourteen years ago) link
according to the documentary i watched over the weekend, haydn and mozart both used fortepianos made with wood from the same tree
― a somnambulist in an ambulance (r1o natsume), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
And that tree was Goethe's beloved Gingko tree.
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 14:22 (fourteen years ago) link
please to identify said documentary by name! thx
― worm? lol (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
stream here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kfqgq
they talk about the fortepiano at around 38 minutes
― a somnambulist in an ambulance (r1o natsume), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
(you'll need to skip forward to episode 3)
― a somnambulist in an ambulance (r1o natsume), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
He would own that "preposterously Prolific" poll.
― M.V., Tuesday, 26 May 2009 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
if you start your day with the Alain Planes Sonatas Vol. 2 pictured above, you will feel instantly great about how your day is goin'
just so you know
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link
i've been listening to his piano stuff all week. well, him and chopin. in the mood for some piano, i guess.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 12:50 (fourteen years ago) link
On March 27th went to see the Belcea Quartet at Lincoln Center-- main impetus for my attendance was Beethoven's op. 130 quartet with the Great Fugue in its proper place as its finale. But the opening Haydn quartet-- Op. 77 no. 1 -- stole the show. Absolutely killed me. Kicked off a week of nonstop Haydn listening which is now turning into 2 weeks. Highlights:
Florestan Trio performing FJH's piano Trios on Hyperion -- kick ass.
Bernstein/NYPO's set of the "Paris" symphonies-- yes, finally a version of these that hits me the way it always seemed thay should (Kuijken didn't do it, Sanderling didn't do it, Marriner didn't do it).
Live radio recital by Deszo Ranki from Hungary 2009 of four Piano Sonatas-- effortlessly, mysteriously dead on target. My late friend Manuel was right about Ranki. His radio recitals will be passed around 30 years from now the way Richter's are today.
Quartets, quartets, quartets. Quatuor Mosaiques, the Leipzig String Quartet, the Tatrai Quartet, the Lindsays. Have to try not to imbibe too many of these but really digest them instead. Focussing on Op. 77, 50, and 76 for starters.
The Belcea Quartet, to my annoyance, have not recorded Op. 77 no. 1. But the concert I saw on the 27th was recorded for broadcast, so hopefully one of my webcast-capturing CM friends will record it.
FJH is seriously getting me through some of the worst weeks within memory.
― how do I Mothman a ho? (Jon Lewis), Monday, 4 April 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
i still like the aeolian quartets from the 70s. which are amazing. and will take me 20 years to hear all of.
― j., Tuesday, 5 April 2011 07:41 (twelve years ago) link
everybody who came after him was just sort of thrashing about, maybe doing great stuff sometimes, sure, but never with the grace and elegance and economy and style
― j., Sunday, 11 May 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
huh, i didn't realize derek simpson from the aeolian quartet was also part of the 'eleanor rigby' octet
― j., Sunday, 11 May 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
http://www.haydn107.com/index.php?id=1&lng=2
this is some v. nice work
― i have measured out my life in Goffey, Coombes (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 16 January 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
god
― example (crüt), Friday, 3 February 2017 00:33 (seven years ago) link
i can't express how amazing his string quartets are 2 me
otm
― though the tempest rages, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 16 March 2017 12:16 (seven years ago) link
For the string quartets, I alternate between the Alban Berg Quartett on modern instruments and the Quatuor Mosaïques when I'm in the mood for a more historicist sound.
The piano sonatas merit attention as well. I got acquainted with them via Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's remarkably thorough interpretations. The Variations in F minor, although not a sonata, strike me as the highlight.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 16 March 2017 14:06 (seven years ago) link
My local HMV has the Takacs Quartet recording for a few quid (string quartets) - can anyone recommend?
― millmeister, Thursday, 16 March 2017 14:59 (seven years ago) link
Their second recording of Bartók's quartets is a desert island disc as far as I'm concerned, but I'm not too fond of their forays into pre-20th century material, so I'd check out Mosaïques or the ABQ first if I were you.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 16 March 2017 16:46 (seven years ago) link
Jerusalem Quartet's couple of Haydn discs on Harmonia Mundi are wonderful, too
― chip n dale recuse rangers (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 16 March 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
Thanks both, will investigate. On a separate note, I've been enjoying the Piano Trios a lot - very melodic. The disk I have is performed by the Bayeux Arts Trio.
― millmeister, Friday, 17 March 2017 11:50 (seven years ago) link
listening to his trumpet concerto in E-flat -- the economical beauty of this piece is impressive, i don't know how else to describe it. i mean it's more than impressive: it's otherworldly.
― omar little, Friday, 16 August 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
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― j., Friday, 16 August 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
still true
― Vape Store (crüt), Saturday, 17 August 2019 01:24 (four years ago) link
you've had two and a half years, have you even been trying to express it
― j., Saturday, 17 August 2019 01:38 (four years ago) link
maybe you'll do it someday