“Minors of the Majors” invites you to discover compositions by the great classical composers that for one reason or another have not reached the musical mainstream. Please enjoy, and keep listening!

Welcoming the New Year frequently involves a glass of champagne and a celebratory kiss from somebody nearby. At the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve the English-speaking world, either before or after extensive toasting and kissing, also collectively launches

“The story of the creation,” Joseph Haydn wrote in 1801 “has always been considered the sublimest and most awe-inspiring image for mankind. To accompany this great work with appropriate music could certainly have no other result than to heighten these

Joseph Haydn was famous for his pranks! When he was a choirboy at St. Stephen’s cathedral in Vienna in 1749, he decided to test the sharpness of a new pair of scissors by snipping off the pigtail of one of

My Love she’s but a lassie yet From Haydn: Scottish Airs (2014) Released by Harmonia Mundi Haydn: My Love she’s but a lassie yetThe arrangements of Scottish ‘national melodies’ (nearly 400 in all) are among the little-known gems of Haydn’s

We all know that the first successful manned landing on the moon occurred on 20 July 1969, when Apollo 11 delivered Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the surface of Earth’s lone satellite. The first robotic moon landing happened a

Sonata I Ensemble OPUS POSTH, Grindenko From Joseph Haydn The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross extended string quartet version (2006) Released by CCnC Haydn: Sonata IThe Seven Last Words of Our Saviour On the Cross (German:

Around the turn of the 19th century, Schädellehre (doctrine of the skull) — better know as phrenology — was considered on the cutting edge of medical theory. Developed by the renowned Viennese neuroanatomist and physiologist Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, the