Welcome, great Master! to our favour'd Isle,
Already partial to thy name and style;
Long may thy fountain of invention run
In streams as rapid as first begun!
(Charles Burney , On the Arrival of Haydn in England,
January 1791)
Presented by Susan Sharpe , with Denys Hawthorne as Haydn. Arianna a Naxos
Catherine Bott (soprano) Melvyn Tan (fortepiano) Symphony No 96 in D (Miracle)
Academy of Ancient Music, conductor
Christopher Hogwood
In un mar d'acerbe pene (L'anima del Filosofo)
Christoph Pregardien (tenor) La Stagione, conductor Michael Schneider
March for the Prince of Wales Netherlands Wind Ensemble
Producer Susan Kenyon. Discs