This adagio sounds almost more romantic than Classical. I personally think this symphony gets quite overlooked especially bc of the adagio in movement 1, and the fugue recapitulation in Movement 4.

My favorite part of this symphony is the Horns and Trumpets at 1:58 alternating between the V (A) and I (D) chords while playing over the arpeggiated string parts. This is perhaps my favorite Haydn Symphony movement! One of my favorite composers!

Haydn may not (usually) of produced master works on the scale of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn etc, but this is a great example of what he could do better than any classical artist- enjoyable, lighthearted fun! This one is a real toe tapper, I can't help but tap along! 

He was probably among the most prolific composers. Schubert was another highly prolific composer who packed in more compositions in his short 31 years than some other composers managed, who lived til 80. Some say it's all about quality rather than quantity, and I have to admit a great deal of Haydn's symphonies aren't that great........but no.94, nos 100 - 104 and several others are all considered masterpieces.

He actually wrote more than this - 109, but for some reason they are either incomplete or not published as symphonies when in fact they were. There is also strong possibility he wrote even more than this (109), but they were either abandoned at the time and destroyed by him, or have been lost in the years since his death. Still, writing 104 'official' symphonies is pretty remarkable, even if none were more than 30 minutes and only around 15 are considered true masterpieces.

hehe, I think this symphony is amazing, my response was actually in defence of it.

It amazes me that one other than some incredibly racist remarks on pages of politics, I generally find the most idiocy on pages of Classical Music.Indeed, it is one thing to have genuine criticisms but it's purely another to MAKE fights over things that are total idiocy.

Considering when this piece was written, it's quite good considering where "the music" was at the time.

I would have LOVED to have seen the comment you were responding to; you did a good job in the allotted 500 characters.

Haydn wrote 104 symphonies twerps

silly piece? Let's see you write anything resembling a symphony first - I don't understand the point of such ignorant comments.

tic-tac, tic-tac.

I take back everything i said about classical music its pretty cool.

2 people deserve to get clocked...

every youtube video i go on now, there is some sort of argument!

Great performance! However, I'm studying this piece at uni, and in bar 240 (in the recapitulation, when the main theme is played again) they make the mistake of playing F sharps instead of F naturals just before the move to a Bb major chord in bar 241...I know it sounds really stupid and pedantic and usually I can't stand people who do this, but those F naturals are really important to the whole of the recapitulation, when Haydn hints at D minor. Otherwise, I loved it!

Congratulations on being a brain box, but please take the time to get out more.

Yes, that was odd! Why on earth did they change it to F sharp? I seems to be an modification by the conductor, Barry Wordsworth.

stand aside mendelssohn, we got lully coming through. also lets face it brahms was a flash in the pan, composed 100+ symphonies and 2 stand out. unlike any truly talented composer, he enjoyed the lionshare of fame in his own lifetime. now stop replying

@ModellMeister chopin and rachmaninov "use"less, stravinsky a romantic, capitalizing names for effect. oh dear what a neophyte

@Horray4UnderpantsPro It is Haydn's 101st Symphony It is called the clock because of the second movement.

@the81stviewer Easy to criticize geniuses, but when it comes to being one like Brahms, the barking dogs fall silent.

What a lovely introduction!

@Horray4UnderpantsPro Actually if you look at your previous comment you never mentioned 'The Clock'. This is what you put: "This song is titled wrong, this is not even close to Haydn's 101 symphony" You said it wasn't Haydn's Symphony 101, which i'm sorry but it is! Plus I believe you'll find the whole Symphony referred to as "The Clock", and is played metronomically.Sincerely, Someone who may not be better than you, but at least has more manners!

@piccchick001 The first movement is not the part that is referred to as "The Clock" is you want to be a pretentious jerk about it, your right its not a song, but you are still a dbag. here is "The Clock" please notice the repetition creating a clock like feeling throughout.Sincerely, Someone thats better than you

@Horray4UnderpantsPro it's not a song! and it isn't titled wrong!

This song is titled wrong, this is not even close to Haydn's 101 symphony

@the81stviewer Well said!! Brahms was a genius who wrote beautifully complex music. Haydn is one of my favourites too, what a mind for melody!

Superb! Both the music and the art. Haydn is second only to Mozart in my book, as the greatest "classical" composer. Thanks for posting!

Some people don't like Haydn! I think he's the greatest composer and this symphony is proto-romantic.

who are you to say that?lets see you writing music as brilliant as Brahms. but, oh wait, you dont even know what brilliant music is.

@the81stviewer Hi there.I just liked your whole reply to the comment about Brahms being useless.Yes, he was amazing and his fantastic music is still being listened to and performed 113 YEARS after he died!Absolutely nothing useless about that!

@the81stviewer Well said!

Haydn wrotes 106 symphonies. There are two knowed as A and B.

awesome symphonywe are playing this in our orchestra :D