On Feb. 20, the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave one of their odder concerts of the season. Featuring guest conductor Alan T. Gilbert ’89 and solo violinist Isabelle Faust, the BSO performed Joseph ...
A listener who knows a bit about Haydn might assume that the “Lord Nelson” Mass was written on one of the composer’s sojourns in London and celebrates some heroic naval action. In actuality, however, ...
In 1958, rummaging through the Hungarian National Library in Budapest, a young U.S. musicologist named H. C. Robbins Landon unearthed a treasure-trove of eight operas by Franz Joseph Haydn. The scores ...