Haydn - Symphony 84 [Goodman-The Hanover Band] Naturally this isn't the booklet / back insert for this recording, it's another one of my amalgamation jobs, i put the Paris Symphonies [82-87] from Goodman in the back of this fatbox, now it's a 4 disc set instead of 2, these discs sit at No83 in my all time top list.
Roy Goodman is an English Conductor, born in 1951, he turned 60 last month, he recorded this Symphony in the mid Nineties, of a planned complete cycle, but i think Hyperion ran out of funds for it, and it never got completed.
I really enjoyed this Symphony so much, and it was especially the opening movement which so caught my ears, it's very repetitive indeed, and very catchy too!, there's a slow Largo introduction that starts the Symphony, so when the Allegro finally explodes [1:14], it really makes a very lively impact, very contagious, and like some nice disease it spreads rapidly, this Allegro opening comes back roughly 4 more times, also almost after the Allegro start, an extra level of exuberance is reached [1:40], and of course this is reprised too, not much more to say about this symphonic movement, as it's a constant merry-go-round of regurgitation, maybe a discord variation here, and a false ending there, but the reprises make the movement, very memorable and catchy!.
Here's Thomas Carroll conducting the First movement on YouTube.
