Compiled by our Classical Music-desk.
Stubborn Student is a new programme series in which we examine what Haydn and Beethoven have meant to each other. Beethoven, for example, played as a 16-year-old viola player in the premiere of Haydn’s Sieben letzten Worte. A rock-solid religious top hit that survived all transcriptions.
1.Joseph Haydn: part from Stabat Mater H XXbis
conducted by Trevor Pinnock
2.Joseph Haydn: parts from Die Sieben letzten Worte H XX:1a
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
Frans Brüggen
3.Joseph Haydn: parts from Die Sieben letzten Worte H XX:1b
Cuarteto Casals
4.Joseph Haydn: part from Die Sieben letzten Worte H XX:1c
Bart van Oort, fortepiano