Stuart Sinclair at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Well, this in my opinion is the find of the year. Before this came out I
>had never heard of vanhal. In fact today I have also bought disc 1 of his
>symphonies on Naxos.
An eighteenth century singer named Frank Kelly wrote a memoir in which he
recalled a pickup string quartet, consisting of Haydn, Mozart, van Hals and
Ditters von Dittersdorf. They played, according to Kelly, "with no little
art."
Bernard Chasan