Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra/Bolton: Haydn Symphonies Nos 60 'Il Distratto', 88 & 96 'The Miracle' | CD review

Like its British principal conductor, Ivor Bolton, this versatile Austrian orchestra can tackle any repertoire, but naturally it prides itself on a particular affinity with the Viennese classical canon. These fresh accounts of three popular Haydn works have punchy woodwind and nimble, muscular strings. The "father of the symphony", here sounding properly subversive, is displayed at his most contrapuntally invigorating and harmonically dense. Textures remain bright and transparent. One of Haydn's...

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