Die Symphonien zeigen einen unverwechselbaren und lebendigen Einfallsreichtum, reizvoll wie bei seinem Bruder Joseph, jedoch in ganz anderer Weise. Vergleiche sind unvermeidlich. Michaels zehn erste Symphonien (c. 1761-c. 1765) sind konzentrierter in der Sprache und zeigen eine größere Formvielfalt als die Josephs (1757-60) und sind weit interessanter als Mozarts von 1764-68. Die erste Symphonie ist ein glanzvolles Stück mit Oboen, Trompeten, Hörnern & Schlagzeug. Der treibende erste Satz zeigt unerwartete harmonische Wendungen, während das Andante wunderbar melodisch ist über einem rhythmischem Puls, was geradezu ein Markenzeichen der Musik Michael Haydns ist. Das Menuett kommt kraftvoll und lebhaft, das Finale hat wunderbaren Schwung.

Antonio Rossetti (ca. 1750 - 1792) was born Franz Anton Rossler in Bohemia. Like many other central European composers with operatic ambitions (Johann Stich, Johann Christian Bach, and even Mozart), he Italianized his Christian and surnames, and studied the craft of masters such as Pergolesi, Vivaldi, Geminiani, Albinoni. Rossetti's internalization of the fluent Italian style was as thorough-going as Giovanni Cristiano Bach's before him, but Rossetti was able to personalize it, to give it his stamp, in small demonstrations of formal and textural originality.

Since the beginning of it’s existence in 1960, the Slovak Chamber Orchestra has developed into one of the most popular ensembles in the field of classical music in Slovakia, and into one of the principal representatives of the Slovak interpretation art abroad. The idea of founding a string orchestra has risen in the mind of Prof. Bohdan Warchal in the late 50-s, while still a member of the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra.

This is a very nice recording of bassoon concertos by the Mozart of Paris, Francois Devienne. Eckart Huebner is a masterful player with a nice sound, good interpretation, great intonation, and brings out the musicality which occasionally lacks or is absent in Devienne recordings. His notes are well written and provide background with thoughts and conjecture concerning each of the concertos and the mysterious 2nd bassoon concerto of Mozart which has been attributed to Devienne.

The Water Music and the Music for the Royal Fireworks mark two chronological extremes of Handel's career in London. The first was written in his earlier years in England, presumably by 1717, to entertain a royal party sailing up the Thames, while the second was commissioned to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1749. Both occasions called for outdoor music, a form in which Handel was to demonstrate a particular skill during the years that he provided music for the gardens at Vauxhall.