Conductor: György Vashegyi Joseph Haydn: Te Deum for Empress Maria Theresa, Hob. XXIIIc:2 Symphony in B flat major (“London”), Hob. I:102 Schöpfungsmesse, Hob. XXII:13 Joseph Haydn’s final productive decade produced three masterpieces. Of these, the Te Deum was written in 1800 at the request of Maria Theresa who was an enthusiastic amateur singer. (According to Haydn, the Empress “had a pleasant but weak voice”.) The work was premiered in the presence of the winner of the Battle of Ab...ukir, Admiral Nelson at Kismarton. This was where Haydn’s six late masses were first performed, including the Schöpfungsmesse (“Creation Mass”) in B flat major. The scoring is rich but for a later Viennese performance, Haydn augmented it by adding trombones and it is this version that we will hear today. The Symphony in B flat major No. 102, one of the second cycle of “London” symphonies, is one of the finest works in Haydn’s entire oeuvre. In many places, it anticipates the style of German romanticism, Mendelssohn and particularly the style of Brahms.
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