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For your Haydn string quartet nickname suggestions, see the bottom of the page.
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4/4. Louise Fryer presents Act 3 of Handel's Ezio. Plus music from international orchestras.
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Louise Fryer presents a performance of Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's forgotten masterpiece Ezio
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3/4. Louise Fryer presents Respighi's The Birds, plus music by Haydn and Tippett.
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2/4. Louise Fryer presents music by Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Vaughan Williams, Berg and Sibelius.
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International Orchestras
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1/4. Louise Fryer presents music by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Rachmaninov.
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This week's theme: Orchestras with international personnel
Louise Fryer showcases performances from international orchestras, including Shostakovich's 15th Symphony with the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra at Lubeck (pictured).
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Haydn string quartets - your suggested nicknames
Poor papa Haydn. He wrote dozens of great string quartets but, unless they've got nicknames, they're hardly ever performed.
So we've been asking you to come up with nicknames for those quartets which don't have them.
Your suggestions:
As I listened to the first quartet you played this afternoon, it struck me that the "slow" movement reminded me of tears flowing copiously, and that it was followed by gleeful laughter.
I suppose I'd call it "Tears and Laughter". (String Quartet No.1 in E flat major, op.20)
Dafydd from Denbighshire
What about "The Sudden" for String Quartet [Op.50] No 2?
Steven from Hampshire
I have pencilled names for Haydn's Quartets into my ancient 1975 Gramophone Record Catalogue, some of which are 'unofficial', namely 'Banshee' op54/2, 'Scotch' op64/4, 'Military' op74/2 and 'Palindrome' op76/5.
I also believe op33/5 is sometimes known as the 'How do you do?' quartet.
Rob from Hull
Here are three suggested nicknames for Haydn Op.50 Nos 1, 2 and 3:
1 Royal jeopardy
2 King's cross
3 His Majesty's pleasure.
Keith Harvey
Nickname for Haydn String Quartet in C could be “butterfly” - or better,perhaps,in German “schmetterling”
Beryl Wilkins from Lewes
Jonathan Swain, from Broadcasting House, London suggested "False Ending" for Op.50 No.1
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