Haydn: Symphony No. 43 in E-Flat Major, Hob. I:43 -Mercury- & Symphony No. 49 in F Minor, Hob. I:49 -La passione- Tafelmusik & Rachel Podger

• Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809): Symphony No. 43 in E-Flat Major, Hob. I:43 "Mercury":
• 1 Haydn: Symphony No. 43 in E-Flat Major, Hob. I:43 "Mercury": I. Allegro 06:56
• 2 Haydn: Symphony No. 43 in E-Flat Major, Hob. I:43 "Mercury": II. Adagio 11:45
• 3 Haydn: Symphony No. 43 in E-Flat Major, Hob. I:43 "Mercury": III. Minuet - Trio 02:36
• 4 Haydn: Symphony No. 43 in E-Flat Major, Hob. I:43 "Mercury": IV. Finale. Allegro 06:05
• Symphony No. 49 in F Minor, Hob. I:49 "La passione":
• 5 Haydn: Symphony No. 49 in F Minor, Hob. I:49 "La passione": I. Adagio 10:00
• 6 Haydn: Symphony No. 49 in F Minor, Hob. I:49 "La passione": II. Allegro di molto 07:02
• 7 Haydn: Symphony No. 49 in F Minor, Hob. I:49 "La passione": III. Minuet - Trio 04:21
• 8 Haydn: Symphony No. 49 in F Minor, Hob. I:49 "La passione": IV. Finale. Presto 03:12
• Total Runtime 51:57

Info for Haydn: Symphony No. 43 in E-Flat Major, Hob. I:43 -Mercury- & Symphony No. 49 in F Minor, Hob. I:49 -La passione-

Tafelmusik is delighted to announce the release of Haydn Symphonies 43 & 49: Mercury & La Passione, its first recording with Principal Guest Director Rachel Podger. The album was recorded live in concert at Jeanne Lamon Hall and features two dynamic and contrasting symphonies performed on period instruments. Haydn Symphonies 43 & 49 will be released on all major digital platforms starting October 11. Rachel Podger will sign a number of limited-edition CDs, which will be available for purchase at Tafelmusik’s opening concerts of the 2024/25 season, Sept 27, 28 & 29 at Koerner Hall.

Led from the first violin by Rachel Podger, Tafelmusik revisits these Haydn symphonies with its signature nimbleness and spontaneity. This new album offers a fascinating pairing with Tafelmusik’s acclaimed 1990s Haydn symphonies recordings for SONY Classical, conducted by Bruno Weil.

"We are thrilled to release Tafelmusik's first album since 2019, featuring Haydn's scintillating, charming, and visceral symphonies 43 and 49, directed by newly appointed Principal Guest Director and British baroque violin superstar Rachel Podger,” says Cristina Zacharias on behalf of Tafelmusik’s Artistic Co-Directors.“This recording captures our live concerts together, filled with passion and infectious vitality—performances that ignited the idea of a larger partnership between Tafelmusik and Rachel, and we are very proud to be able to share them on this album."

Hailed as “the British goddess of the gut-stringed violin” by The Times, Podger begins her two-year tenure with Tafelmusik in September. Her latest recording, The Muses Restor'd, received international acclaim including a Diapason d'Or award, “Disc of the Day” from Radio France, and “Record of the Week” from CBC Radio.

“The live concerts with Tafelmusik felt like a homecoming—exciting yet easy, like a team of friends that had always belonged together,” says Podger. “There is this shared musical language, a desire to create and go on an adventure together which we hope can be felt in this recording.”

Tafelmusik has been praised by Gramophone for “determined beauty to their sweetly rich, gently vibrating sound … precision and poetry come wonderfully together,” and the combination of Tafelmusik and Pod

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
Rachel Podger, principal guest director

Rachel Podger
“the unsurpassed British glory of the baroque violin” (The Times), has established herself as a leading interpreter of the Baroque and Classical music periods. She was the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Prize in October 2015, Gramophone Artist of the Year 2018, and Ambassador for REMA’s Early Music Day 2020. A creative programmer, she is the founder and Artistic Director of Brecon Baroque Festival and her ensemble Brecon Baroque. Rachel is Patron for the Continuo Foundation.

Following an exciting and innovative new collaboration, A Guardian Angel, with the ‘impeccable’ (Gramophone) vocal ensemble VOCES8, Rachel was thrilled to be one of the Artists in Residence at the renowned Wigmore Hall throughout the 2019/2020 season. The series features Rachel in all-Bach performances as a soloist and with Brecon Baroque. Alongside this, Rachel and Christopher Glynn recorded the world premiere of three previously unfinished Mozart sonatas which were completed by Royal Academy of Music Professor Timothy Jones for release in March 2021.

Rachel featured in The VOCES8 Foundation’s LIVE From London festival in a new advent version of A Guardian Angel. She performed solo Bach for Gramophone Magazine’s Winners’ Digital Gala, appeared in Bitesize Proms, BOZAR at Home, Living Room Live, Baroque at the Edge, and a collaborative disc by Musicians For Musicians Many Voices on a Theme of Isolation. Rachel presented BBC Radio 3’s Inside Music and directed a new arrangement by Chad Kelly, The Goldberg Variations Reimagined. Upcoming engagements include recording a selection of Beethoven sonatas and performances of Mozart and Beethoven with Christopher Glynn, a return to Philharmonia Baroque and San Francisco Early Music, a Four Seasons collaboration with Academy of Ancient Music, and further performances of Bach Cello Suites, The Goldberg Variations Reimagined, and A Guardian Angel.

Rachel is a dedicated educator and holds an honorary position at both the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She also has a relationship with The Juilliard School in New York.

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