Aaron Rabushka wrote: >Dorati's recordings of these symphonies are very fine, and I would >recommend them over Bernstein. Collegium Aureum (semi-HIP) has some >very good recordings of 82 (they leave out the trumpets), 83, 85, & 87. Dispensing with trumpets in 82 is an option, as the score indicates horns in C *alto* or trumpets, but there seems to be evidence that Haydn really preferred only horns. Alto horns with, or in place of trumpets in C has a long precendence in Haydn's symphonic writing, perhaps most spectacularly in #48, the oft-purported "Maria Theresia". >Colin Davis does a great job on #86, possibly on the rest as well. If >your search for Paris symphonies extends through #88 don't miss Reiner. I believe that if one looks at the circumstances involving their commission, symphonies Nos. 88-92 could also be considered "Paris" symphonies. And yes, that includes the "Oxford", which FJH didn't compose for the occasion of receiving his doctorate from that institution--rather, it was something he had "at hand". Bill H.