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Strong string playing here!

Joseph Amante Zapata | Rhode Island, USA | 06/17/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"There just aren't enough recordings of Michael Haydn's compositions, choral or orchestral, and this one appears to be the best of these particular symphonies. There are too many favorite movements to list but Michael, like his brother, had a flair for expressive slow movements. In fact, some call to mind the second movement of Franz Josef's D Major keyboard concerto with its many expressive ornamentations that often surpassed Herr Mozart's! I particularly enjoyed Goritzki's lively tempi (he could have easily fallen back on the too cautious and predictable interpretations of late). AND, of particular note, is the violin solo by Charys Schuler Tepel. One wishes her sympathetic interpretation would go on. ;) I'm definitely planning on using this one for my college music examples!Amazon music lovers--get out there and buy this one!"

Amazing these aren't better known

Alonso del Arte | Detroit, MI United States | 03/15/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"These Symphonies are full of memorable melodies; the first and third movements are lively and energetic, the slow movements are relaxing and never longwinded. It's simply amazing these Symphonies aren't better known. The C major has been recorded by others before, but the possibility that it may have influenced Mozart's "Jupiter" hasn't been enough to put it on concerts more often (and I personally prefer this "pre-Jupiter" to the "Jupiter"). Though the F major has gotten a lot of play on Detroit's WRCJ-FM lately; I call it Michael's "Pastoral" Symphony. The D major is my favorite of the set, its momentum in the outer movements is unflagging, and a flute joins in the slow movement (a nice visitor in the otherwise oboe-dominated wind texture). The B-flat major foreshadows Beethoven's Fourth, I'd put them on the same programme. Goritzki and his players deliver an interpretation that sounds absolutely right at all times, though admittedly only for the C major Symphony do I have a basis for comparison."