Franz Joseph Haydn: O Sing with Joyful Pleasure: SAB: Vocal Score

Six Psalms (Hob.XXIII: Appendix) for three-part mixed Chorus (SAB)During his second visit to England in 1794 Joseph Haydn made the acquaintance of the Rector of Westbourne the Reverend William Dechair Tattersall. He tried to interest Haydn in his plan to improve congregational singing more particularly the singing of psalms in the Anglican Church. Haydn's fame in England had been well founded durng his first visit in 1791/1792 and now at the height of his celebrity he was warmly welcomed on all sides. The Reverend Tattersall was more than delighted therefore when Haydn consented to help him and he expressed his thanks with the gift of a silver bowl. Inthese six English Psalms Haydn's feeling for accessible and easily remembered melody partwritingwhich is satisfying to sing interesting harmony well balanced form and a reasonable setting of the textis fully in evidence.Mixed choir SAB

Stabat Mater Hob.XX bisOratorio (funeral music) versions from 1767 and 1803The new scholarly critical edition of Joseph Haydn's Stabat Mater (1767) is published in Henle's complete edition of Haydn's works. This edition is the first to come as close as possible to the lost original and has been compiled using all currently available sources. The score has been fully amended in its original orchestration for two oboes or English horn strings and organ.At a later performance of this work probably in 1803 Haydn attempted to accommodate the intervening changes in musical taste. According to the composer's request and under his supervision SigismundNeukomm enlarged the wind orchestration by adding a flute two clarinets two bassoons two French horns trumpets and timpani.Urtext from the Haydn Complete EditionHaydn’s Stabat Mater in both its original scoring as well as Neukomm's scoring.Full score performance material (BA4642) vocal score (BA4642-90) available for sale

Oratorio-Joseph Haydn’s oratorio ‘The Seasons’ was composed directly after the first successful performances of ‘The Creation’.‘The Seasons’ has however been greatly overshadowed by ‘The Creation’ for a long time and yet this work has far greater changes of style between popular Singspiel and great oratorio than ‘The Creation’. ‘The Seasons’ continues to impress and remains part of the core repertoire to the present with its overwhelming richness of musical character and its immense formal variety. Scarcely another oratorio is able to so captivate an audience with such variety.- Urtext edition from theComplete Edition ‘ Joseph Haydn Works’ published by G. Henle Verlag Munich.- Duration: approx. 140 minutes.- Full score & parts (BA4647) & vocal score (BA4647-90) available for sale.

Among the Piano sonatas by Joseph Haydn the Sonata in E flat Hob. XVI:49 is probably the piece we know most about in terms of genesis. It is one of the few sonatas that have survived in Haydn's own handwriting and the correspondence between Haydn and his 18 years younger admirer Marianne von Genzinger refers to the work several times. That alone was reason enough for Christa Landon the renowned editor of Haydn's Piano sonatas in the Wiener Urtext Edition to present an edition of this work with a facsimile of Haydn's autograph many years ago. The new edition now publishes the facsimile with the musicaltext newly revised by Ulrich Leisinger.