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21-year-old Philipp Schupelius plays the virtuosic finale of Haydn’s Cello Concerto No.1 in C major at Classic FM’s Rising ...

Ivan Hewett explains why the Austrian’s humour and common touch make his music ideal for a crisis Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing ...

A small step in the evolution of the trumpet. “Ear Trumpet 1”. Photo by Eknath Gomphotherium, used with permission. We’re back with a new episode! Whooo! How did the trumpet morph from a simple horn ...

The conductor’s final ever concert was at Sage Gateshead with the Royal Northern Sinfonia playing an all-Haydn programme. He leaves classical music changed emphatically for the better – and with less ...

Joseph Haydn died 200 years ago Sunday. He was, by any measure, a prolific composer. In addition to the five dozen or so string quartets, he wrote hundreds of trios, piano sonatas, oratorios, masses, ...

The easiest way for amateur music lovers to get to know orchestral pieces used to be through piano transcriptions and chamber arrangements. Liszt’s versions of Beethoven symphonies are the genre’s ...

When discussing Haydn’s music it's difficult to avoid using words like ‘elegant’, ‘witty’ and ‘brio’, but I'll do my best. The writer E.T.A Hoffman should shoulder much of the blame for Haydn's ...

Brother Weinman has an article in this week’s print edition about the mighty river that is Joseph Haydn, to help mark the 200th anniversary of the great man’s death. I am here to sing Haydn’s praises ...

The Emerson String Quartet cultivates the full range of the quartet repertoire, right up to the most contemporary offerings. But every quartet needs to revisit the source periodically, and that means ...

Boston’s H+H shine in a live recording of Haydn’s Theresienmesse; and WNO, Stephen McNeff and Gruff Rhys do Hedd Wyn proud The Gloria from Haydn’s Theresienmesse (Mass in B flat, Hob XXII:12, 1799), ...