Your excitement is infectious‼️ I'm ordering this right away. Thank you, as always, for your good taste and quality recommendations. 🙂 I rarely listened to Haydn before discovering this channel during the early portion of the pandemic. I'm completely hooked on him now.
Symphony # 54 has been a favorite of mine ever since I got an LP by Leslie Jones and the Little Orchestra of London on Nonesuch, back in the late 60's. Jones recorded about 20 LP's in all, with a representative sample of early, middle and late symphonies. It was a very good option if you wanted some Haydn but didn't want to put out the money (or have the space) for the complete Dorati recordings when they eventually came out. Of course, I eventually opted to collect both.
Hah! Leslie Jones and the Little Orchestra of London. These Haydn performances were the treasure of my early teenage years in the 1960s, mostly on Pye Golden Guinea Collector. They created a sensation in their day. Then he moved to Nonesuch where, amongst others he did a complete set of The London Symphonies. His whole Haydn oeuvre is crying out for reissue. EMI/Warner presumably has all of the Pye recordings in their vaults - who owns the copyright for the Nonesuch Haydn performance?
@@robertpullin5830 Nonesuch is also part of the Warner group, so if they can get their Nonesuch division and their EMI-PYE division to collaborate, a Leslie Jones Haydn box should be possible. I collected quite a number of those LPs back in the day, and I would love to see them reissued.
One thing I realised thanks to your amazing videos is that most Haydn symphonies are mature works, even if the number is low. Since the most popular ones have a number over 80, I thought that 54 may have been a youth composition, but he was already in his forties!
@@DavesClassicalGuide Maybe you could talk about one day about why some Haydn symphonies are very popular and many others neglected. Are they popular because they have a nickname, or is the other way around?
