Haydn / Solomons - Symphonies - Derek Solomons & L'estro Armonico [CD]

"In the 1980s, as the movement for historically informed performance was booming, there was a sudden flurry of attempts by period-instrument ensembles to record all of Haydn's 106 symphonies. It was perhaps inevitable that none of them would reach the summit of this musical Everest - most made it about halfway up to this ambitious and costly undertaking.