The BBC is definitely helping me get through the symphonies with a broadcast today of Rattle's recording with the Berlin Phil. I have a feeling I have heard this symphony live and, like so many of Haydn's late symphonies, it offers of ease of hearing and profundity. Rattle's performance seemed good, but maybe not world-beating.
If you played this to me and asked me which Haydn symphony, I admit I wouldn't know.
Here's another recording

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