HAYDN EDITION (160 CDs)

The renowned French painter Jean Ingres proclaimed Haydn’s music to be the alpha and omega: ‘Whoever studies music, let his daily bread be Haydn … the first, who created everything, discovered everything, taught everything to the rest!’ Hailed as the father of both the symphony and the string quartet, Haydn was both pioneering and prolific.This box is an update of Brilliant Classics’ acclaimed Haydn Edition, with an additional 10 CDs of content including classic performances of the Trumpet and Horn concertos (Philharmonia Orchestra) and the Cello Concertos (Jan Vogler). The set of Haydn’s Masses is now complete, with renditions of the ‘Nelson’, ‘Creation’ and ‘Little Organ’ Masses and the Heilig- and Theresienmessen by New York’s Trinity Church Choir and Rebel Baroque Orchestra. Also new in this edition is Haydn’s final opera, L’anima del filosofo, performed by the Bavarian Radio Choir and Munich Radio Orchestra, along with world-famous sopranos Arleen Auger and Emma Kirkby in Haydn’s