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