From the stage of the freshly spiffed-up Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, S.C., Geoff Nuttall, the newly minted chamber music director at the Spoleto Festival, hosts a concert that exposes the ...

The first volume of Naxos’s new series of Haydn piano trios includes the most famous Haydn trio of all, the one nicknamed the Gypsy Rondo Trio, after its Rondo all’ Ongarese finale. It’s one of a set ...

If gypsies haven't gotten much respect over the centuries as a people, their music has certainly had a big influence on classical music. A good case in point is Haydn's Trio in G, the so-called "Gypsy ...

Haydn is known as ‘the father of the string quartet’ because he was the first to compose four-part music for two violins, a viola and a cello on a regular basis. Beethoven was so overawed by Haydn’s ...

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