Haydn seek on Radio 3

Haydn from Belfast (and elsewhere)

As the BBC's Composer of the Year celebrations begin to wind down, it's good to find another rich week for Haydn being programmed in advance of the Purcell events around St Cecilia's Day on Sunday. Being currently housebound with an awkward back condition, I've been able to enjoy a lot of more than usual of what's on offer on Radio 3. This week's Lunchtime Concerts have all been dedicated to Haydn. On Monday, they began with a really convincing performance of The Seven Last Words by the Emerson Quartet, and the remaining days feature the Dutch keyboard player Ronald Brautigam (and friends) from last month's Belfast 'Festival at Queens'. As always, these recitals can be heard using the BBC iPlayer service.

Although Brautigaum does play other instruments, he seems more at home at the fortepiano than the modern concert grand, as this sequence of programmes demonstrates. In his Belfast concerts, he showed the instrument in several different ensembles, beginning with a selection of solo works on Tuesday. The three Piano Trios Nos 27, 28, & 29 that Haydn wrote for Clementi's star pupil Therese Jansen while in London followed the next day, Wednesday. In Thursday's broadcast Brautigaum played three of the composer's concertos with the Narratio Quartet as chamber music. This short series of programmes showed some of Haydn's gifts as a composer of domestic music and concludes on Friday with Scottish soprano Mhairi Lawson singing a selection of canzonets and folksongs.

The weekly parade of symphonies also continues, with two notable rarities appearing - Klemperer conducting the Philharmonia in No 92 - The Oxford (Classical Collection, Wednesday), and Guido Cantelli with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in No 93 in D (Classical Collection, Friday). There's no doubt about it - there's a lot to enjoy!

• The photo (copyright BBC) shows Otto Klemperer in 1970.