Christopher Hogwood

Like so many of his compatriots, the Czech-born Vaclav Pichl spent much of his working life in Vienna (where the Empress Maria Theresa, preferred him to Mozart), but with a period working for Dittersd...

This second volume in the series of his Op. 13 quartets exploits each instrument equally - even the viola is allocated elaborate solo passages - and offers an attractive alternative (as Haydn realised...

Haydn's first set of Lieder, adapted for the English market by William Shield, who was to become his close friend, were an instant commercial success, with the most popular of them re-issued separatel...

Muzio Clementi, who was rather more magnanimous in his praise of Mozart than Mozart was of him - 'Until then I had never heard anyone perform with such grace and elegance' - towards the end of his lif...

From the start, the size and nature of the scoring of Mozart's Serenade for 12 Winds and Contrabass K. 361 (conventionally called either Serenade for 13 Winds or Gran Partita) and the unusual length o...

Includes two 'mystery' pieces - the last discovery this Mozart year! In the short period between Mozart's death and the end of the 18th century, it was quickly discovered that he had not left enough s...

Anton Eberl, nine years younger than Mozart, also began life as a prodigy, and became a friend of Mozart and probably also a pupil; his compositions show such an acquaintance with Mozart's style that...

The Grande Sonate Charactéristique in F minor was published between Eberl's visits to Russia, and dedicated to Haydn, possibly in gratitude for his reported praise of Eberl's opera Die Königin der sch...

The Anhang of Köchel's catalogue is full of pieces that for more than a century after his death were thought to be his work; the Müller sonata, a very effective piece on both fortepiano and clavichord...

The second volume of the complete keyboard music from the reclusive Carl Fasch contains two unpublished sonatas (one unusually in the key of B flat minor) and his considerable output of 'character pie...

The third and final volume of keyboard music from the reclusive Carl Fasch contains his four sets of extended keyboard variations, including some impressive displays of virtuosity, and a variety of sh...