8/21/2023 The Classic Review

Review: Haydn – Late Symphonies, Vol. 1 – Ádám Fischer

David A. McConnell

Ádám Fischer is no stranger to the Haydn symphonies, having recorded a complete cycle with Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra on Nimbus three decades ago. Excepting a DVD recording of Haydn’s Creation, Fischer has not released any Haydn since then, but now,

The Nimbus recordings, made in the Haydnsaal, Esterházy Palace, Austria, were some of the first productions, and the engineers had not yet mastered the overly reverberant room, making the music’s many contrapuntal passages cloudy. Fisher had not yet fully