Serenade No. 1 Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor (The) Hague Residentie Orchestra Johannes Brahms, Composer Variations on a Theme by Haydn, 'St Antoni Chorale Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor (The) Hague ...

Johannes Brahms thought he was embellishing music by Haydn when he devised his "Variations on a Theme by Haydn" for two pianos. History has proved that the theme is by someone else, but that hasn't ...

Brahms does Haydn: Pianist Emmanuel Ax and conductor Robert Spano had an interesting idea for a concert program. They decided to perform both the two piano version, and the orchestral version of ...

Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' Nizhny Novgorod Soloists Chamber Orchestra Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor Variations on a Theme by Haydn, 'St Antoni Chorale Nizhny Novgorod ...

(Toscanini, NBC Symphony; RCA Victrola VIC-6400). If anything, Brahms benefits even more than Beethoven from a Toscanini tightening-up. This is a four-record album.

Accordo, the crème de la crème of two venerable music organizations (SPCO and Minnesota Orchestra), team with guest artists for this intimate performance of Brahms’ gorgeously dramatic Clarinet ...

Critic Larry Lapidus’ recommendations of essential recordings of the works performed this past weekend: • Brahms, Variations on a Theme of Haydn Op. 56A: Arturo Toscanini/NBC Symphony ...

Before he died at 77, Franz Joseph Haydn composed more than 500 works, including at least 104 symphonies. Last week the Haydn Society, which has been busying itself preparing a catalogue of Haydn ...