The wanderer, Hob XXVIa:32 (Haydn) - from CDA66740 - Hyperion Records

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Digital booklet (PDF)

The wanderer, Hob XXVIa:32

First line:

To wander alone when the moon, faintly beaming

composer

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

1795; canzonet

author of text

Anne Hunter (1742-1821)

Invocation, Timothy Roberts (conductor), Charles Daniels (tenor), Timothy Roberts (fortepiano)

Recording details: June 1994
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Ben Turner
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: November 1994
Total duration: 4 minutes 47 seconds

Cover artwork: A Girl with a Baby. Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)
Reproduced by kind permission of The Governors of Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

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Reviews

‘This CD is a revelation. Do explore this well recorded, well presented disc’ (British Music Society Journal)

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