The Haydn Variations and the German Requiem, to be performed tonight and on Tuesday, were on the orchestra's programs in 2006 and 2001.

In the Haydn Variations especially, one notices intricate canonic effects that the virtuosic orchestration often obscures.

Brahms - Symphony No. 3 & Haydn Variations.

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Haydn Variations (Philips, 1992)

It also offered a tidy rendition of Brahms's "Haydn Variations" (Op.

After his untimely death, and in tribute to him, the Vienna Philharmonic finished recording the Haydn Variations.

Also on the Woolsey Hall program are the Haydn Variations by Brahms and the "Spring" Symphony by Schumann (203) 776-1444.

A Brahms symphony cycle began with the First, coupled with the "Haydn Variations" (CDC 54286).

The recording that bobbed into consciousness was a 1973 version of the "Haydn Variations" by the Vienna Philharmonic, mostly conducted by Istvan Kertesz.

Yet their performance of the "Haydn Variations" at Carnegie may have shown another virtue to having a conductor, even in their case.