Lot contains a collectable 21 Cd boxed set of Haydn's Baryton trios Haydn - Esterházy Ensemble, Piccolo Concerto Wien – Complete Baryton Trios Label: Brilliant Classics – 93907 Format: 21 x CD, Album Box Set Country: Europe Released: 2009 with booklet (in English and German) - condition: box and sleeves: VG+; CDs: NM, back of box shows discolouration. The baryton is a member of the gamba family and a relation to the modern-day cello dating from the early 17th century. It was quite a handful to play, having one manual with 6 or 7 bowed gut strings, and another with anything up to 20 further ‘sympathetically resonating’ metal strings lying under the finger board. Haydn’s prolific output for this instrument was the result of his patron – Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy I. The Prince was himself a skilful musician and the Baryton was his instrument of choice. With an insatiable appetite for new compositions for the instrument, the Prince commissioned 160 works from Haydn. Today 90% of these still survive, the 126 trios dating from 1762–1775 being the most important. - A must for all period performance and Haydn fans. - The most comprehensive and only survey of Haydn’s output for baryton on record, newly recorded: most works here receiving world premiere recordings. - Extensive booklet notes included. - Recorded in Eisenstadt, where Haydn was Kapellmeister for Prince Nikolaus. - "The musicians proved to be virtuosos on their instruments" (Schwaebische Zeitung, Leutkirch). - "The concert of the Esterhazy Ensemble was exceptional" (Fuldaer Zeitung).