The twelfth installment in the Haydn2032 series, in which Giovanni Antonini conducts the Kammerorchester Basel, is devoted to "play and pleasures". The symphonies recorded here, nos. 61, 66 and 69, were composed for the daily theatrical performances at the Eszterháza palace in the spring of 1776. For Haydn, they marked the end of a festive period, before he had to seriously focus on writing operas again. The "Toy Symphony", which was attributed to Haydn for 200 years before it was discovered that it was most likely composed by a Benedictine monk, completes the program in an equally light and cheerful spirit.
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