Release Date: 12 January 1999
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 730099505925
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: HAYDN
Description
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)Celloe Concerto in C Major, Hob. VIIb 1ModeratoAdagioAllegro moltoCello Concerto in D Major, Hob. VIIb 2Allegro moderato Adagio AllegroLuigi Boccherini (1743 - 1805)Cello Concerto in B Flat, G. 482Allegro moderatoAdagioRondo: AllegroThe greater part ofJoseph Haydn's working life was spent in the service of the Princes ofEsterhazy, from 1766 in the magnificent new palace built in the Hungarianmarshes on the site of a former hunting-lodge. There Haydn was the director ofa musical establishment that included an opera-house, a puppet-theatre and anorchestra, as well as the usual obligations of church music. For much of thetime he served the prince known as Prince Nikolaus the Magnificent, a patronwith a keen understanding of music & a particular liking for the baryton, astringed instrument with added sympathetic strings that could also be plucked,a fact that led the English musician Dr. Burney to describe it as only suitedto a desert island, where a player might pluck his own accompaniment.The death of PrinceNikolaus in 1790 released Haydn from his regular duties at Esterhaza, althoughhe retained the title of Kapellmeister to the Esterhazys until his death inVienna in 1809. He was able to travel twice to England, where he was mademuch of, and tosettle in Vienna to enjoy in his final years the kind of society that hadlargely been denied him earlier in his career.Haydn was aprolific composer, with some 106 symphonies to his credit, 83 quartets and 175works for baryton, among much else. He wrote relatively few concertos, some 30in all, if we are to accept all that have been attributed to him. Of threeknown cello concertos, two survive, the first of them, the Concerto in C Major,discovered in Prague in 1961 and dated 1765, the year before the Esterhazyestablishment moved to the new palace.Haydn's CelloConcerto in C Major is in the usual three movements. The first of these openswith an orchestral introduction after which the soloist enters in the grand styleassociated with this choice of key for the cello, its most resonant. Thesoloist is allowed to make much of the lyrical possibilities of the thematicmaterial, as well as providing an element of technical panache in the centralsection and the cadenza. There follows a slow movement, scored for stringsonly, which offers music of quiet intensity before the brilliant finale, withits impressive display of the technical possibilities of the cello.Haydn's Concerto inD Major was at one time thought to be the work of Anton Kraft, the cellist ofthe Esterhaza orchestra, who presumably offered help in the writing of the solopart. It is, however, the work of Haydn and was written in 1783. Like theearlier surviving concerto it is scored for pairs of oboes and French horns,with strings.The concerto openswith an orchestral introduction in which the two principal themes of the firstmovement are presented, followed by the solo cello with an embellished versionof the same material. The expressive A
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Various
Various
Lully
