Under recent directorships, it and other “heritage” art-form programs frequently have felt like tick-box afterthoughts to schedules dominated by ostensibly contemporary, genre-­shattering items.

The String Quartet version op. 51 Hob XX/1B is the most often performed and recorded. But it is not the original and only presumably (though not certainly) a transcription of his own – as opposed to ...

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The host of Now Hear This and Mexico City Philharmonic music director shares the pieces by Joseph Haydn, also known as “the king of strings,” that mean the most to him. A playlist is available where ...