There is so much to like about this gorgeous video. But I'd just like to say thank you for this exquisitely beautiful and spirited performance of one of my favourite Haydn symphonies. The standing ovation at the end was so very well deserved.
OK, Audio Tech, I give up. I absolutely KNOW it’s a single overhead AB stereo because you’ve caught the orchestra’s own balance, warmth, delicacy and beauty perfectly. But I CAN’T FIND THE MIC(s).! Well done indeed. (Rtd., senior studio audio tech for 40 years.)
Unfortunately, Google Translate has referred to this symphony as a ‘song’ which is one of the most ridiculed mutations of the English language today. Haydn did not request the slow movement at his funeral, and due to circumstances (very hot weather and the French invasion of Vienna) Haydn was buried very quickly and simply, though at a memorial service a couple of weeks later, they played Mozart’s Requiem. The story linking the Adagio from Symphony 44 to Haydn’s funeral is entirely apocryphal, fictitious, and it 100% never happened. Why of all composers does Haydn carry such a baggage of spurious nonsense ?
I enjoyed much about this performance, including the perfectly judged tempi in all four movements, but have to say I found the orchestral layout very strange, the 1st and 2nd violins bunched to the left did nothing for the antiphonal passages in the first movement from about bar 20 for example (and elsewhere). It is widely accepted nowadays that in the music of this period (Mozart and Haydn into Beethoven) the violins should be split; I would be interested to hear the reasoning behind what we see and hear here which for myself has flawed *a very fine performance* of one of the greatest of sturm und drang symphonies.
![[NYCP] Haydn - Symphony No. 45 in F# minor, “Farewell”](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/tq1nc4Gyp0c/mqdefault.jpg)
![[NYCP] Haydn - Symphony No. 45 in F# minor, “Farewell”](/img/tr.png)
![[NYCP] Mozart - Eine kleine Nachtmusik K. 525](/img/1.gif)
There is so much to like about this gorgeous video. But I'd just like to say thank you for this exquisitely beautiful and spirited performance of one of my favourite Haydn symphonies.
The standing ovation at the end was so very well deserved.
Wow, thank you so much! :)
this is a BEAUTIFUL performance!
Many thanks!
THANK YOU FOR THIS GREAT PERFORMANCE !!
Many thanks!
Как всегда - отлично!
Большое спасибо!
A NYCP é inspiradora! Linda performance!
OK, Audio Tech, I give up. I absolutely KNOW it’s a single overhead AB stereo because you’ve caught the orchestra’s own balance, warmth, delicacy and beauty perfectly. But I CAN’T FIND THE MIC(s).! Well done indeed. (Rtd., senior studio audio tech for 40 years.)
하이든이 사후에 연주되기를 바랬던곡ㅡ너무 감동적인 연주 감사합니다
그래서 더 깊이가 느껴지는 곡입니다. 감사합니다.
Unfortunately, Google Translate has referred to this symphony as a ‘song’ which is one of the most ridiculed mutations of the English language today.
Haydn did not request the slow movement at his funeral, and due to circumstances (very hot weather and the French invasion of Vienna) Haydn was buried very quickly and simply, though at a memorial service a couple of weeks later, they played Mozart’s Requiem.
The story linking the Adagio from Symphony 44 to Haydn’s funeral is entirely apocryphal, fictitious, and it 100% never happened.
Why of all composers does Haydn carry such a baggage of spurious nonsense ?
I enjoyed much about this performance, including the perfectly judged tempi in all four movements, but have to say I found the orchestral layout very strange, the 1st and 2nd violins bunched to the left did nothing for the antiphonal passages in the first movement from about bar 20 for example (and elsewhere).
It is widely accepted nowadays that in the music of this period (Mozart and Haydn into Beethoven) the violins should be split; I would be interested to hear the reasoning behind what we see and hear here which for myself has flawed *a very fine performance* of one of the greatest of sturm und drang symphonies.