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Exploring Haydn: a listener's guide to music's boldest innovator
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Amadeus Press
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the CD
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).
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9781574671162
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