Favorite Haydn Symphonies Cycle (incomplete)

[DavidW]

Did I miss any?  You can only choose 1.

[Gurn Blanston]

Goodman & Hogwood in a tie. Voted for Goodman but could have voted for Hogwood easily enough. Rather a difficult question, really.

[TheGSMoeller]

Goodman's performances are wonderful, features some of my favorites (No.86 being one of them), I also really love Fischer's, (only one of these three to have recorded two of my absolute Haydn tops, No.80 and 98) and I have to give a huge nod to Fey, this forum seems to be quite split on his accounts, but I get more chills down my spine from these discs (No.39 and 44 first come to mind) than others, it's really difficult for me to pick one out of these three.

Rather a difficult question, really.

This.

But I voted Goodman, as an overall summation I think this is the way to go. I would miss Fey's intensity and Fischer's romantic qualities. But I'll play along and just pick one.

[Bogey]

Hogwood.

[Leo K.]

Since I heard one album from Hogwood's cycle, I guess it's Goodman!

[Daverz]

Did I miss any?

Marzendorfer!

[Wakefield]

Hogwood, hands down. Kuijken when "completism" isn't a concern.

[Opus106]

Voted for Goodman but could have voted for Hogwood easily enough.

I'm fairly certain that you must have gone over the reason once before (or more) in the forum, but could you please tell us, one more time, why you have chosen Goodman over Hogwood?



With the release of Lyre-bird box, I think it's a good opportunity for Hyperion (and us!) if they also release a box of Goodman's Haydn.

[marvinbrown]

  Am I going to be the only person here to cast a vote for the Fischer cycle?? 

  Seriously for someone who has had a slight aversion to Haydn (I avoided him for many years!!) I can honestly say that ever since buying the Fischer Cycle I can not stop listening to it.  For that alone it deserves my vote......and what's to not to like:

  1) the set is COMPLETE
  2) sound quality is EXCELLENT
  3) fischer's interpretation emphasizes the LYRICAL (this suites me just fine)
 

  marvin

[DavidW]

Marzendorfer!

I thought you were swearing at me for a second!

[DavidW]

  Am I going to be the only person here to cast a vote for the Fischer cycle?? 

I'm surprised too, I thought the forum would vote for Fischer.  Now I know what I'm preordering from jpc... Hogwood!  Well I'll let more people vote in.

[springrite]

Fey

[Sergeant Rock]

Fischer for completeness (and price). Fey for interpretive uniqueness and fire (and, fingers crossed, eventual completion)--gets my vote. I really like Hogwood too but there is no Stumbling Goat or Cat, and never will be 

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

This thread is reminding me that I have yet to finish listening to the Fischer cycle . . . .

[Sergeant Rock]

This thread is reminding me that I have yet to finish listening to the Fischer cycle . . . .

Not surprising...there is a lot to listen to 

Sarge

[Gurn Blanston]

I'm fairly certain that you must have gone over the reason once before (or more) in the forum, but could you please tell us, one more time, why you have chosen Goodman over Hogwood?



With the release of Lyre-bird box, I think it's a good opportunity for Hyperion (and us!) if they also release a box of Goodman's Haydn.

I picked individual performances when I was choosing symphonies, not cycles. I like that the Hogwood has more music in it, the more the merrier for MY money! In the early symphonies, where the band isn't but a dozen players or so, Hogwood's eschewing of continuo shows up as a negative for me. That's why most of my early choices are Goodman and Solomons. Later on, of course this matters far less as you can scarcely hear it anyway. But there is a lot more competition then too. So, in sum, mainly because of the super job Goodman does with the early works.

[DavidRoss]

I don't have one and don't know any well enough to offer a meaningful opinion. As a fan of HIP period instrument performance, I'm partial to the late symphonies recordings I have by Kuijken, Minkowski, and Brüggen, but none are close to complete. Guess I need to hear some Goodman & Hogwood, neither of whom usually appeal much to me (where's the 'ugh' emoticon?).

[Scarpia]

Fey!  (Then Harnoncourt, although I do not know if he reached the 50% level with his Concertgebouw and CMW recordings).

[Karl Henning]

Not surprising...there is a lot to listen to 

Aye, Sarge, which is one of the Good Things.  Probably take me a little bit of researching even to find out where I left off in my chronological survey . . . of I could just start from the beginning again . . . .

[Sergeant Rock]

So, in sum, mainly because of the super job Goodman does with the early works.

I could do some research and find the answer....but you probably have it readily at hand: how many symphonies did Goodman complete before they pulled the plug on his cycle? I own 25 (1-5, 17-21, 45-47, 70-78, 90-92) but I know there are more.

Sarge