The numbers game
Post categories: Denis McCaldin
| 11:22 UK time, Tuesday, 3 February 2009
This week's quota of Haydn symphonies began with a leap out of sequence to No 92 (The Oxford) played on Monday afternoon by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Nicholas Kraemer. Actually written for performance in Paris, No 92 takes its name from a performance Haydn gave in Oxford in the course of a visit to receive an honorary degree in 1791.
I found the performance a bit rough & ready, with the slow movement definitely pushed slightly too hard. The engineers gave us a nice forward presence for the wind players and the natural hornists {in G!] were splendid. Do catch this on the iPlayer (follow this link) if you can.
On Wednesday at 10am we return to the early works with Symphony No 10 and Sinfonia Finlandia [new to me] followed by No 11 at 10.32 on Friday.
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