Seán wrote:Jared wrote:^^ I might (finally bite the bullet and) invest in that set in the New Year, Sean... I'll see how things go.
I think that it is a splendid set Jared. While the individual recordings might not prove to be my favourite performances of these works they are very fine indeed and gives one the opportunity to listen to all of Haydn's symphonies and that can only be a good thing, definitely recommended by yours truly.
Sean, I'm completely sold on the concept of owning this set. It's a question of the initial financial outlay, but mainly the time required to give a body of work of this magnitude, the serious listening time, which it would deserve. Most of July and August was given over to the String Quartets, which I thoroughly enjoyed, but exhausted by the end... and the Symphonies are about 50% again in length!
One day my friend... one day.
