Exploring Haydn: a listener's guide to music's boldest innovator

Inventing music as we know it (and why this turned out to be a mixed blessing)

How to listen to complete works

Haydn in his own words

Movement types in Haydn's instrumental music

Overview

First movements

Slow movements

Minuets/scherzos

Finales (grand and otherwise)

A topical view

Vocal works, sacred and secular

Solitary masterworks

From tragedy to comedy : Haydn's war on blandness

Conclusion : the road forward.

CD 1. Orchestral works: 1. Symphony no. 88, first movement (6:40)

2. Symphony no. 88, second movement (5:34)

3. Symphony no. 88, third movement (4:13)

4. Symphony no. 88, fourth movement (3:53)

5. Symphony no. 90, first movement (7:02)

6. Symphony no. 80, first movement (5:37)

7. Symphony no. 45 ("Farewell"), first movement (5:40)

8. Symphony no. 94 ("Surprise"), second movement (5:33)

9. Symphony no. 100 ("Military"), second movement (6:18)

10. Symphony no. 86, second movement (7:23)

11. Symphony no. 77, third movement (2:07)

12. Symphony no. 68, fourth movement (5:14)

13. Symphony no. 13, fourth movement (3:14)

14. Symphony no. 8 ("Le Soir"), fourth movement (3:34)

15. Symphony no. 44 ("Mourning"), fourth movement (3:48)

16. Symphony no. 70, fourth movement (3:08).

CD 2. Chamber and vocal works: 1. String quartet op. 74, no. 2, first movement (5:46)

2. String quartet op. 64, no. 5 ("Lark"), first movement (6:34)

3. String quartet op. 33, no. 5, second movement (4:50)

4. String quartet op. 54, no. 2, fourth movement (7:07)

5. String quartet op. 76, no. 1, third movement (2:37)

6. String quartet op. 74, no. 1, fourth movement (5:37)

7. String quartet op. 33, no. 2 ("Joke"), fourth movement (3:43)

8. String quartet op. 20, no. 5, fourth movement (3:05)

9. Piano trio no. 28 in E, second movement (2:48)

10. Piano trio no. 25 in G, third movement (3:29)

11. Piano trio no. 26 in F-sharp minor, third movement (5:28)

12. Piano sonata no. 33 in C minor, third movement (3:57)

13. Piano sonata no. 60 in C, third movement (2:09)

14. The creation: representation of chaos, no. 1 (sung in German) (6:33)

15. The creation: the heavens are telling, no. 13 (sung in German) (3:44)

16. The seasons: recitative and hunting chorus, nos. 25, 26 (sung in German) (5:25)

17. Lord Nelson Mass: Kyrie (4:25).