Tom Connor wrote:

>My collection is missing Haydn string quartets and I've been listening to
>a local radio station play a number of the Kodaly performances on Naxos.
>Are these as good as they're sounding to me on a car radio? ...

Quite a coincidence.  Today I used the annual Tower clearance sale to pick
up the three last but one discs of this cycle.  That's 22 down, one to go.
I think this is an excellent series.

>Who else for Haydn chamber music?

As far as I'm concerned, this is all that's needed.

>My collection of Haydn symphonies had been well served with Naxos
>performances setting a baseline from which I can leisurely expand into
>other performances.  ...

Be sure to check out the piano sonata series played by Jando, also on Naxos.

Mitch Friedfeld