Edition HH Limited

Francois Devienne's music has long been highly rated for its grace and balance. One of the first professors of flute at the new Conservatoire in 1795, Devienne's Flute Concertos played by the composer...

Seyfried uses the same key as the Requiem, its distinctive orchestral sonority and quotes two passages from Mozart's work prompted by clauses in the liturgical text. The 'Libera me' was widely used in...

On the morning of Friday 8 July 1791, at the University of Oxford, Haydn was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Music. That same evening his Symphony No. 92 was performed at the Sheldonian Theat...

Haydn's Symphony No. 48 was long thought to have been written for, and performed in honour of the state visit of Empress Maria Theresia to Eszterháza in 1773. However, research by Robbins Landon has s...

Haydn's Symphony No. 96 acquired its nickname through an unfortunate misunderstanding, originating in a colourful story reported by a contemporary biographer of the composer. The circumstances concern...

Symphony No. 44 in E minor is one of a number of Haydn's mid-period works representing the Sturm und Drang (‘Storm and Stress') style of melodramatic realism taken over from contemporary German litera...

Symphony No. 63 'La Roxelane' the first movement of which re-employs (with reduced instrumentation and some structural adjustment to conform to its new symphonic setting) the overture to Haydn's opera...

Among Vienna's many composers and pianists of the time, Anton Eberl (1765-1807) was the one considered most worthy of comparison with Beethoven. His Sonata in B flat major, Op. 10 No. 2, is the first...

A pastorella (the Latin pastores means shepherds) had evolved during the eighteenth century as a work to be incorporated into midnight Mass that dramatised the role of the sheperds in the Nativity sto...

This set of four works, all in minor keys, is unique for the energy of the fugal writing, the passionate chromaticism of the slow movements and the playful, asymmetrical phrasing of the final Minuets....

John Sheeles (1695-1765) published two books of harpsichord suites, in 1724 and c.1730 respectively. These basically follow in the tradition of Restoration composers such as Purcell and Croft, but mor...

John Sheeles (1695-1765) published two books of harpsichord suites, in 1724 and c.1730 respectively. These basically follow in the tradition of Restoration composers such as Purcell and Croft, but mor...

Hummel's arrangement of the Piano Concerto in D minor, K466, the first of the series to appear, dates from 1827. This concerto was certainly the most popular of all Mozart's piano concertos, both duri...

These exceptionally beautiful quartets (HH67, HH68 and HH69) are both elegantly and skilfully written with musically-interesting parts for all the players. They thus provide an essential core to the f...

Bayo's way is really a miniature tuba concerto in one movement. The composer wanted the soloist to be the provider of pulse, a protagonist, a melodist and a magician. With this in mind, I set out to u...