Haydn: An Imaginary Orchestral Journey (Live)

Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra celebrate the majesty, humor, and outlandishness of Haydn, a composer with an infinite palette of colours at his fingertips. Haydn’s genius is evident throughout this glorious recording, from his fragmented, searching depiction of the creation of heaven and earth to the bizarre, disrupted cadences of Symphony No. 64 and the finale of Symphony No. 90, whose false ending catches out the London audience. Marvel, too, at the daring discordance in the finale of Symphony No. 60 and wallow in the irreverently performed “Music for Musical Clocks.” A delight from start to finish.