Italian violinist Giuliano Carmignola takes a gritty, muscular approach to period-instrument performance, one that favors urgency and tonal sinew over finesse. After a series of first-rate recordings ...

Haydn, Violin Concertos, Midori Seiler, violin and conductor with the Concerto Koln. (Berlin Classics). Haydn’s music, though the work of a master, often has to be “sold” in a kind of special way. Our ...

A vibrant new recording under the direction of Harry Christophers. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 26 August 2013. In Harry Christophers’ expert hands, Haydn comes to life in this, the first in a ...

Stefano Montanari (violin), Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone (harpsichord) L'Oiseau Lyre 478 2243 *** The three concertos recorded here on period instruments are for keyboard (the Concerto in D, ...

Shaham has emerged as a beacon not just of soloistic musicianship but of collaborative spirit. Here he plays pied piper, leading the (slightly straight-laced) Sejong Soloists in a programme ...

Mozart wrote many concertos, Haydn a mere handful. The reasons are fairly obvious - Haydn was not a virtuoso himself, and his secure gig with the Eszterhazy family meant that he didn't have to compete ...

Podger, one of the UK’s most inspirational violinists and an influential teacher, would be better known if it weren’t for the fact that she works only with period orchestras, keeping her off the star ...

Bavarian-Japanese violinist, Midori Seiler has been a long-term concertmaster of Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Anima Eterna Brugge. Seiler makes her Australian debut with the Australian Haydn ...

From Feb. 21 to Feb. 23, the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) presented a masterful performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s complete “Brandenburg Concertos” at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre and New England ...