HAYDN: 33 SYMPHONIES - Neville Marriner, The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields (15 CDs)

BONUS OFFER: BUY THIS SET AND GET A 10 CD BOXED SET OF HAYDN: A PORTRAIT, which includes "The Creation", and numerous string quartets and piano sonatas. Click here for more information on this box.  With the delightful original LP cover illustrations, this ‘original jackets’ presentation collects together for the first time the 33 Haydn Symphonies recorded by Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields over a twenty-year period, from 1970–1990. Both the polish and refinement of these performances, as well as the recording quality “of exceptional vividness and presence” (Gramophone), received widespread critical acclaim.Begun in 1970 with an album of Symphonies Nos 52 & 53, this series of Haydn recordings soon concentrated on symphonies with nicknames (none of them supplied by the composer). They attracted widespread praise for the precision of their playing, the excellence of the Philips engineering and the unassuming polish and refinement of the readings, the