J. Haydn: Symphony No. 70 | Giovanni Antonini | Il Giardino Armonico (Haydn2032 live) 

In mine, too!

@@gnanathasanebenezer2915 Ditto. 🎵💛 🎵.

I could have written your comment. But perhaps not as eloquently. I discovered the first (!) sixty symphonies in the 70's. There were glorious recordings by Leppard and the ECO and Marriner and the ASMTF. A most regrettably underrated composer to this day.

Pier Paderni Sono d’accordo al 100% - davvero fantastico. Inoltre, suonano la musica con conoscenza, comprensione ed amore. Questi esecuzioni d’Antonini ed i suoi due orchestre mi piacciono più di tutti. Viva lo spirito italiano nella musica!

Thanks for the listening guide!

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Antonini.

Jacob Opper Outside of the Baroque composers, I feel that Haydn has benefitted perhaps more than any other composer from the impact of hearing his symphonies - and other works - played by specialist period orchestras.

@@elaineblackhurst1509 I totally agree. It's pure joy to listen to these enthusiastic musicians play. Crisp sound not smothered by dozens of strings. Antonini is so much fun to watch.

Jacob Opper You’re right, and it’s not just the fact it’s period instruments, but that Antonini and his two orchestras are time after time giving us such fantastic, committed and stylish performances - they are playing the music, not just the notes. The single most important feature of this series for me is that I feel I am hearing each symphony with the same sort of impact it would have have had on Haydn’s contemporaries. This whole series, even after the work of Bruggen, Goodman, Harnoncourt, Hogwood, Kuiken, Pinnock, Solomons, Weil, et al, is a revelation.

@@elaineblackhurst1509 You know your stuff. Thank you.

You are quite right, however this magnificent symphony simply illustrates the huge differences between Haydn and Mozart, and why it is better not to weigh the two composers in any qualitative scales; barely a single note from first to last could be mistaken for Mozart - it is quintessentially Haydnesque. As for Il Giardino Armonico, spot-on again, what a fantastic performance - and indeed, bravi, bravissimi tutti.

The only composer Mozart looked up to was Haydn. Mozart even dedicated six string quartets to Haydn. I read somewhere that Haydn was considering becoming a priest in his early days. I am sure glad he decided against it.

@@1janak362 I am not sure that Haydn ever seriously considered becoming a priest, though his mother possibly would have liked that to happen. Additionally, Haydn was rather too fond of women; besides being married - probably the worst marriage of any composer - he maintained a mistress at Eszterhaza (Luigia Polzelli) from 1779 until 1790, and almost certainly had other women in England, and possibly Vienna as well. I don’t therefore think a celibate priesthood would have appealed to him, especially as he explicitly spoke about the charms of women more than once. The only alternative career that I think was a possibility for Haydn was that of a singer, but fortunately, prompt action from his father prevented him around 1747 falling victim to the knife which was poised to preserve his fine singing voice for the rest of his life by making him a castrato.

During Haydn’s visit to Oxford during his first trip to England in July 1791, he received the rarely awarded honorary Oxford D. Mus. from the University (which astonishingly, Handel never received). Haydn became extremely proud of this Doctorate, and it became normal to refer to him as Dr Haydn. Haydn continued to use the title sometimes back in Austria, and he would have raised an eyebrow over you referring to him as Mr Haydn!

@@elaineblackhurst1509 But the title that best suits him is neither "Mr." nor "Dr." but "Papa'"

@@1janak362 I think not; whilst the term might have been used in the 18th century as a term of endearment by a tiny number of people, its original sense is not properly understood today, and even amongst Beethoven’s circle, Papa was already being used as a term of ridicule, even contempt, and usually with the addition of the word - used pejoratively - ‘old’. My objection to the use of this silly, meaningless, and demeaning nickname is actually clearer if you put it into English, and into context, such as the story recounted by Ries about Beethoven’s friends laughing at the trick they had played on ‘…old Father Haydn’ about who had completed some of Beethoven’s counterpoint exercises. The term ‘Papà’ was an early 19th century invention, a caricature of the historical person that bore no relation to the complex musical personality of a very great composer. It is odd that Haydn is almost the only great composer stuck with such a silly, patronising, and condescending nickname that obscures his true stature. As I mentioned in my earlier post, Haydn was extremely proud of the Oxford Doctorate precisely because it did acknowledge and reflect his status and abilities. Whilst he would have accepted Papà from a very small number of people with whom he had a close relationship, he would never have accepted it in connection with his music; he would not appreciate the name being used casually today by people not entitled to use it.

@@elaineblackhurst1509 You take everything too seriously! It was only meant to be a joke.

@@1janak362 You’re probably right; the problem is that it’s not funny anymore because it’s been repeated thousands of times on RU-vid. I must lighten up x100!

God bless you praying for you and your country.

Greeting from Masha, she coming from Kiev and pianist (19 years old) and was 14 months with us and lives now near the Amsterdam conservatory.

There is no harpsichord continuo used in this series of Haydn symphonies.

Sì! - Timpani: Michael Juen

I timpani sono stati distrutti in un grave incendio a Eszterhaza nel 18 novembre 1779, circa un mese prima della prima esecuzione di questa sinfonia (18 dicembre). Haydn ha aggiunto le parti timpani un po’ più tardi.

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