![]() Mozart's Symphony No 40 – A deep dive into the best recordings: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s penultimate symphony is perhaps his most popular.The 50 best Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart recordings: 50 of the finest Mozart recordings in history, plus extracts from the original Gramophone reviews. ![]() Enshrined herein is a rare order of musicianship.' (Read the album review) Cuarteto Casals shatter a glass ceiling of historic inhibitions and camouflage nothing. 'Most arresting of all is the slow movement, for these musicians a sequence of pain and abraded nerve-ends behind a smokescreen of Andante cantabile. Mozart String Quartet No 19, K465, 'Dissonance' Haydn and humour – it's time to rethink the boundary-breaking composer: Pianist Paul Lewis explains why Haydn is the composer he'd most like to have dinner with.Haydn - the poor man’s Mozart?: In the two centuries since his death Joseph Haydn has been scandalously underrated, argues Richard Wigmore.Top 10 Haydn recordings: Ten of the finest Haydn recordings, from Steven Isserlis, John Eliot Gardiner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Leif Ove Andsnes and more.They are consistently a degree more refined in texture and control of dynamic, while the ensemble is more polished.' (Read the album review) 'These are among the finest Haydn quartet recordings I have heard in years, performances which I am sure will quickly establish themselves as classics of the genre. Haydn String Quartet, Op 76 No 3, 'Emperor' Of course, one person’s idea of something obvious will be another’s off-the-beaten-track, but the 10 below, we can be fairly sure, will have a special place in the hearts of most classical music collectors. It incorporates great recordings of some of the most-performed masterpieces. It’s almost impossible to come up with a credible 'top 10' list for the best string quartets, so this is more of a newcomer's starter-pack.
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