[joen_cph]

Yes, Mozart's sounds more 'grand' and pompous to me.

It's partly due to recordings. Haydn's late symphonies, and other ones of them, can sound somewhat like that as well. No.22, even described as a 'proto-Parsifal' piece by one writer, in the old Marriner recording is one, lesser known case. Most conductors take it faster. You could do it even slower.

I have very big difficulties choosing here, listened more to Mozart over the years, but in the end, I might-might go for Haydn, due to the bigger variation in his cycle. Harnoncourt for example provides Mozart's early symphonies with more content, however.

 

[joen_cph]

Hard to reconcile the idea of a composer's disappearance and ongoing projects such as the excellent series of recordings of his keyboard sonatas, by Miklós Spányi, now almost 40 volumes. I think Naxos is also recording the complete solo piano works using a variety of pianists, and Danny Driver is doing a series on Hyperion (two volumes so far, maybe more to come). Also CPE Bach has his complete works available in a large box.

That's the piano/keyboard works only, regarding completeness.