Discovering Music

Joseph Haydn and the Classical Style

Saturday 13 May 2006 14:00-15:00 (Radio 3)

In this workshop session designed to complement A-Level and Scottish Highers studies, Charles Hazlewood and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra explore the key ingredients of the classical symphony. They use as their exemplar Haydn's Symphony No 60 in C, Il Distratto - a six movement work from 1774, fashioned from incidental music which he had composed for an adaptation of a French play, Le Distrait, by Francois Regnard.

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