Joseph Haydn was famous for his pranks! When he was a choirboy at St. Stephen’s cathedral in Vienna in 1749, he decided to test the sharpness of a new pair of scissors by snipping off the pigtail of one of

My Love she’s but a lassie yet From Haydn: Scottish Airs (2014) Released by Harmonia Mundi Haydn: My Love she’s but a lassie yetThe arrangements of Scottish ‘national melodies’ (nearly 400 in all) are among the little-known gems of Haydn’s

We all know that the first successful manned landing on the moon occurred on 20 July 1969, when Apollo 11 delivered Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the surface of Earth’s lone satellite. The first robotic moon landing happened a

Sonata I Ensemble OPUS POSTH, Grindenko From Joseph Haydn The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross extended string quartet version (2006) Released by CCnC Haydn: Sonata IThe Seven Last Words of Our Saviour On the Cross (German:

Around the turn of the 19th century, Schädellehre (doctrine of the skull) — better know as phrenology — was considered on the cutting edge of medical theory. Developed by the renowned Viennese neuroanatomist and physiologist Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, the

Jian Wang, cello   Haydn: Cello Concerto in C, H.VIIb, No.1 – 1. Moderato Gulbenkian Orchestra From Haydn: Cello Concertos (1999) Released by Deutsche Grammophon Haydn: Cello Concerto in C What can I say? If you have read my blog