Haydn's Haus

[jwinter]

Ok, I was poking around the Kobo store, looking to see if there are any decent books on Papa in ebook format. I didn't find any, but I did find the first several installments of the Joseph Haydn Mysteries, by Nupur Tustin.  They appear to be just what they sound like, mysteries with Haydn serving as the detective.

Anybody familiar with these?  Worth checking out for a chuckle?

[Gurn Blanston]

Ok, I was poking around the Kobo store, looking to see if there are any decent books on Papa in ebook format. I didn't find any, but I did find the first several installments of the Joseph Haydn Mysteries, by Nupur Tustin.  They appear to be just what they sound like, mysteries with Haydn serving as the detective.

Anybody familiar with these?  Worth checking out for a chuckle?

I've got one on my wishlist at Amazon, but haven't pulled the trigger because I don't have any reading time right now. They look like a hoot though...

[Brian]

Last weekend, I was in my car, and the dashboard said that the temperature was 97...while Haydn's 97th was playing on my car stereo.

Now, pretty much ALL the time the Fahrenheit temperature is a Haydn symphony, but I don't like it when it's the London symphonies!

[Sergeant Rock]

Now, pretty much ALL the time the Fahrenheit temperature is a Haydn symphony, but I don't like it when it's the London symphonies!

Coincidentally, in my neck of the woods it was a Haydn 97 today too.

Sarge

[Gurn Blanston]

Last weekend, I was in my car, and the dashboard said that the temperature was 97...while Haydn's 97th was playing on my car stereo.

Now, pretty much ALL the time the Fahrenheit temperature is a Haydn symphony, but I don't like it when it's the London symphonies!

We had a cool front come through last night: I could have really happy with an 'Oxford'!   

[Alek Hidell]

We had a cool front come through last night: I could have really happy with an 'Oxford'!   

Us, too - probably the same front, since we're relatively near each other. We went from the London symphonies (even the triple-digit ones) to the Paris symphonies - quite a relief to cross the Channel that way!

[Madiel]

Well, if we're talking Fahrenheit I should be able to listen to no.28 early in the morning...

[Gurn Blanston]

Us, too - probably the same front, since we're relatively near each other. We went from the London symphonies (even the triple-digit ones) to the Paris symphonies - quite a relief to cross the Channel that way!

  Well, it was the wonderful D major #62 for me this morning, can you even imagine that in July in East Texas??  Brilliant!

[Karl Henning]

Cross-post:

I am boldly going where our Gurn has gone long before, reading Haydn: His Life and Music by H.C.Robbins Landon and David Wyn Jones.

[Gurn Blanston]

Cross-post:

I am boldly going where our Gurn has gone long before, reading Haydn: His Life and Music by H.C.Robbins Landon and David Wyn Jones.

Interesting book. The combination of their P'sOV is an interesting contrast. IMO, the much younger Wyn-Jones is by far the more conservative of the two. Nice pictures too.

[Brian]

Just popping the shrink wrap off this new acquisition, a rare and cheap new copy from Berkshire Record Outlet:

Haydn - Symphonies 6, 7, 8, 30, 73, 94
Orchester Wiener Akademie, Martin Haselbock / Novalis Classics

I'd never heard of Novalis before but it appears to be a "super budget" line - there are no recording dates or info, no copyright info, and a 1-page booklet with an "essay" that's just two paragraphs long. Still, searching the board reveals a few GMGers are very much in the fan club for this, and I've enjoyed some previous OWA/Haselbock releases!

[Florestan]

Just popping the shrink wrap off this new acquisition, a rare and cheap new copy from Berkshire Record Outlet:

Haydn - Symphonies 6, 7, 8, 30, 73, 94
Orchester Wiener Akademie, Martin Haselbock / Novalis Classics

I'd never heard of Novalis before but it appears to be a "super budget" line - there are no recording dates or info, no copyright info, and a 1-page booklet with an "essay" that's just two paragraphs long. Still, searching the board reveals a few GMGers are very much in the fan club for this, and I've enjoyed some previous OWA/Haselbock releases!

I just love their complete Liszt symphonic poems --- featuring possibly the best Les preludes ever recorded. If their Haydn is just as good then it should really be something else.

[JBS]

Just popping the shrink wrap off this new acquisition, a rare and cheap new copy from Berkshire Record Outlet:

Haydn - Symphonies 6, 7, 8, 30, 73, 94
Orchester Wiener Akademie, Martin Haselbock / Novalis Classics

I'd never heard of Novalis before but it appears to be a "super budget" line - there are no recording dates or info, no copyright info, and a 1-page booklet with an "essay" that's just two paragraphs long. Still, searching the board reveals a few GMGers are very much in the fan club for this, and I've enjoyed some previous OWA/Haselbock releases!

I only see Symphonies 6-8 on Amazon

But also

As well as a bunch of Mozart and some CPE Bach.

[Sergeant Rock]

I just love their complete Liszt symphonic poems --- featuring possibly the best Les preludes ever recorded.

Granted, it's very good. But Frübeck de Burgos conducting the RSO Berlin is definitely the best 





Sarge

[Florestan]

Granted, it's very good. But Frübeck de Burgos conducting the RSO Berlin is definitely the best 





Sarge

Thanks for the tip, will check it out asap.

[Gurn Blanston]

Just popping the shrink wrap off this new acquisition, a rare and cheap new copy from Berkshire Record Outlet:

Haydn - Symphonies 6, 7, 8, 30, 73, 94
Orchester Wiener Akademie, Martin Haselbock / Novalis Classics

I'd never heard of Novalis before but it appears to be a "super budget" line - there are no recording dates or info, no copyright info, and a 1-page booklet with an "essay" that's just two paragraphs long. Still, searching the board reveals a few GMGers are very much in the fan club for this, and I've enjoyed some previous OWA/Haselbock releases!

You should quite like those. I have all of their Haydn and really enjoy them (They also have a disk with Symphonies 101 & 102).  If they are 'super budget', it's news to me. They are a Swiss label, IIRC, and the half dozen or so disks I have on that label were all premium price. If you got them super budget (well, it's BRO!), you did well. Their 6-8 was originally on Novalis, but I only saw it once, not for sale. I have it on "Arts" too.

Really like that Masses disk that Jeffrey pictured, too.

[Brian]

You should quite like those. I have all of their Haydn and really enjoy them (They also have a disk with Symphonies 101 & 102).  If they are 'super budget', it's news to me. They are a Swiss label, IIRC, and the half dozen or so disks I have on that label were all premium price. If you got them super budget (well, it's BRO!), you did well. Their 6-8 was originally on Novalis, but I only saw it once, not for sale. I have it on "Arts" too.

Really like that Masses disk that Jeffrey pictured, too.

If I'd paid premium price and gotten a two-paragraph booklet note with no copyright date, I would have probably been pretty grumpy! Looks like BRO doesn't stock it anymore, so, counting myself very lucky indeed. Tried 6 and 7 but not 8 due to it being soir and me needing to cook dinner. The orchestra sounds absolutely wonderful. (Great flute players.) Time to hunt down that 101/102 disc...wherever it may be...

[aukhawk]

IME Novalis have been a budget label going way back, and specialising in the 18thC - comparable prices to Naxos or lower, and probably been around just as long.  And yes, again like Naxos, some of the artists/recordings are really good, what you pay is no guide to what you get.

[Gurn Blanston]

If I'd paid premium price and gotten a two-paragraph booklet note with no copyright date, I would have probably been pretty grumpy! Looks like BRO doesn't stock it anymore, so, counting myself very lucky indeed. Tried 6 and 7 but not 8 due to it being soir and me needing to cook dinner. The orchestra sounds absolutely wonderful. (Great flute players.) Time to hunt down that 101/102 disc...wherever it may be...

1989 in mine. 2 pages in English. The 101-102 has 9 pages in English. I got it at AMP, but that was, like 2012 or 13...

Searching "Haselböck Haydn" on Amazon turned up a few, including that original Novalis Times of Day disk for $82. I'll keep the one I have, I guess. There is also this one, which I had forgotten, but which is a real peach:

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If you run down the list, those 2 disks on Orfeo are some of my favorites of his early music. Wonderful performances of music you don't hear every day.

[Karl Henning]

This week, I'm revisiting the first recordings of the quartets I listened to, with the Amadeus Quartet.