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with Haydn threads scattered like the limbs of Osiris, perhaps this can contain most, if not all, the great man's music... which hasn't lacked attention but has been marked by interesting, problematic questions of performance practice etc... these can be "discussed" (sometimes w/ disgust). to wit-- on one level the Marriner cond. masses w/ Leipzig + top soloists are very good, sometimes better... on other hand, great as Leipzig's sound is... it's too much... enjoyable as itself, the extended historical echoes but period lacking pungency, color too... super-"bargain" Dennis Rusell Davies neither great nor dire btw-- it's better than you'd think an Arvo Part / Philip Glass etc modern specialist could do but also w/ some questionable choices-- excluding C-alto horns in score (meaning parts trascribed down an octave, why?!?!?), applause after EVERY symphony?!?!-- & one hopes it's not anyone's only Haydn symphonies... Still, it's probably more valuable overall, more potential for "revelation," elucidation than, say, the ponderous Jochum London Haydn set that's longtime bargain mainstay-- mine too, thankfully I heard other / better. Haydn quartets HIP thread Haydn Creation / Seasons oratorio thread Haydn keyboard thread stillborn Strurm & Drang thread, notable for Mike Weil mention of Haydn continuo issue *** One of the great great lesser known Haydn series' is that of Manfred Huss & Haydn Sinfonietta Wien the divertimenti or cassations, originally Koch Schwann, now wonderfully boxed on BIS for discount price. Huss' sound world & alertness extraordinary, vast improvement sensually, sensibly on vast majority H. symphony recordings per se. Here's a Haydn / Huss overture also