Orchestra: Danish Chamber Orchestra

Conductor: Fischer, Adam

Composer: Haydn, Franz Joseph

Symphony No. 104 in D Major, Hob.I:104, "London"

Date of Concert: 10-2023

Playing Time: 00:26:22

Catalogue Number: NVF1474

UPC: 730099647410

An event on 30 March 1795 was downright irritating: the Freemasons were to entertain with 'one of my great symphonies' in their banquet hall. "But the orchestra did not want any rehearsals" he writes. "So I refused to participate. I was actually completely absent."

The demand for quality reflects not only his care for the works as such. His demand also expresses a new era. Pieces for orchestra are on their way to winning the same status as operas. Something as simple as a symphony can henceforth have artistic weight. Joseph Haydn's symphonies from his second visit to London thus stand as a milestone in the transition from Viennese Classicism to Romanticism.

Symphony No. 104, sometimes designated The London Symphony, finally gathers the experiences through its pompous expression, its inspiration from folk music, and its general pre-Romantic sentiments.