Veteran Dutch historical-instrument conductor and keyboardist Ton Koopman was once the enfant terrible of Baroque music, scandalizing big-orchestra traditionalists with his historically informed performance of Baroque music. By 2010 or so he had actually become something of a conservative, and perhaps he wanted to feel the bracing breezes of controversy when he embarked on a series of Haydn's "London" symphonies, of which this disc represents the first installment. This is certainly unusual late Haydn, and it's going to ...
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Veteran Dutch historical-instrument conductor and keyboardist Ton Koopman was once the enfant terrible of Baroque music, scandalizing big-orchestra traditionalists with his historically informed performance of Baroque music. By 2010 or so he had actually become something of a conservative, and perhaps he wanted to feel the bracing breezes of controversy when he embarked on a series of Haydn's "London" symphonies, of which this disc represents the first installment. This is certainly unusual late Haydn, and it's going to give not only traditionalists but even Koopman fans something to think about. The issue is that this really isn't a historically accurate performance. Haydn's symphonies in London (and Paris before that) were performed by notably large orchestras, with perhaps 75 players, but here Koopman's Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra weighs in at the two dozen he could count on at Esterháza for a special event. Perhaps Koopman's argument is that these were the symphonic terms in which Haydn was...
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