Our Summer BAL: Haydn Symphony in G No 92

[verismissimo]

Love Haydn. Always ready to try different approaches.

What are YOUR preferences?

[aeolium]

D--n you, verismissimo, I wanted to start a BaL on Haydn's Sturm und Drang symphonies.

But I love no 92 too. I have the recording by Davis and the Concertgebouw, which is very good. I would like to hear the Kuijken/Petite Bande version as I very much enjoyed his performances of the Paris symphonies with the OAE.

[tony yyy]

I asked for recommendations for no 89 on the old R3 boards and, as a result, I bought both the Kuijken set and the Boehm/Vienna CD on ebay, both of which include the marvellous No 92. The latter recording is the one I listen to most often. It comes from the 1970s, a time when that orchestra made some exceptional recordings. I'm less keen on the Kuijken but it's undoubtedly musical and well played and has many admirers.

[vinteuil]

René Jacobs / Freiburg Barockorchester

Frans Brüggen / Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century

Sigiswald Kuijken / la Petite Bande

[barber olly]

I asked for recommendations for no 89 on the old R3 boards and, as a result, I bought both the Kuijken set and the Boehm/Vienna CD on ebay, both of which include the marvellous No 92. The latter recording is the one I listen to most often. It comes from the 1970s, a time when that orchestra made some exceptional recordings. I'm less keen on the Kuijken but it's undoubtedly musical and well played and has many admirers.

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Looks like my shelves favour the heavier end of the spectrum Celibidache, Dorati, Groves, Klemperer, Krips, Malko, Rosbaud, Szell
Thanks for reminder above of the Bohm ordered from an Amazon seller £1.29.

[vinteuil]

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Looks like my shelves favour the heavier end of the spectrum .

You mean, you wish Haydn was more like Brahms??

[gurnemanz]

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Looks like my shelves favour the heavier end of the spectrum Celibidache, Dorati, Groves, Klemperer, Krips, Malko, Rosbaud, Szell
Thanks for reminder above of the Bohm ordered from an Amazon seller £1.29.

From this "heavy end" list I only have the Szell which I like very much - well played with customary Szell precision and vivid recording. It's on a Sony Essential Classics CD with 94 and 96, but I note that they've brought out a quite attractive-loooking box :

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Sony/88697687792

[verismissimo]

D--n you, verismissimo, I wanted to start a BaL on Haydn's Sturm und Drang symphonies. But I love no 92 too.

I was going to do No 39, aeolium, but then I remembered that, judging by the lack of response to the Sturm und Drang symphonies on the old boards, I'd better go for one with a broader appeal.

Where was No 92 performed in Oxford in July 1791, celebrating his honorary doctorate?

[aeolium]

I was going to do No 39, aeolium, but then I remembered that, judging by the lack of response to the Sturm und Drang symphonies on the old boards, I'd better go for one with a broader appeal.

Where was No 92 performed in Oxford in July 1791, celebrating his honorary doctorate?

Fair enough, verismissimo

No 92 was first performed at the Sheldonian on July 7, 1791 with Haydn conducting.

[verismissimo]

No 92 was first performed at the Sheldonian on July 7, 1791 with Haydn conducting.

I wonder if people who were there told their grand-children. (Of course, the response might well have been, "Oh, that old stuff," just as it would likely be in similar circumstances today.

I appear to have Dorati with his Hungarians, Szell with his Clevelanders and Bernstein with the VPO. Thought I had Kuijken/Petite Bande, but apparently not. May invest in that.