Hofmann: Cello Concertos

Hugh:North Sinf

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Cat No: 8553853

Release Date: 01 January 2000

Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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Barcode: 730099485326

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: HOFMANN

Description
From that time he appears to have moved to a house just outside Vienna and became something of a recluse. His final catalogue of works was vast and included around 30 Masses and a considerable number of concertos and sinfonias.As a person he was thought by some to be arrogant, yet he was to prove a most persuasive teacher, and in 1773 won the Vienna Gold Medal, which, if contemporary reports are correct, would have designated him as the outstanding composer in Austria at that time.Recent reassessment of his output places him as a major figure in 18th century compositions that has been overshadowed by Haydn and Mozart.During the peak of his output, from 1765 to 1774,he composed over sixty concertos, for diverse instruments, including six for cello. Why he wrote them - in those days composers usually worked with someone in mind, often themselves -is uncertain. We do know that the celebrated cellist, Luigi Boccherini, was in Vienna at that time, and the virtuoso cellist, Joseph Weigl, was a member of Hofmann's orchestra at St. Peter's. Either could have been the reason. They were obviously written for outstanding musicians with a high degree of virtuosity. Even more important, for that era, was the quality of the accompaniment, which was often of symphonic status. Nowhere is that more in evidence than the opening movement of the C major concerto which ends this disc. It is a work that Haydn would have been overjoyed to compose. Certainly there was no one at this time writing such outstanding music for the cello, an instrument that was not particularly popular, and was seen, at best, as having a role as a continuo instrument giving a bass to the orchestra. Tim Hugh studied with the distinguished cellist, Aldo Parisot, at Yale in the United States, before returning to England where he read Medicine and Physical Anthropology at Cambridge University. During his medical training he also studied the cello with Jacqueline Du Pré and William Pleeth. Since 1995 he has combined his appointment as joint Principal Cellist of the London Symphony Orchestra with a solo career that has taken him on many overseas tours with the BBC Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Leipzig Radio Symphony and the London Symphony. He has performed with all the major orchestras in the UK, and his enthusiasm for chamber music has led to membership of two ensembles, Domus and the Solomon Trio. He has made a number of critically acclaimed recordings for Naxos, the American record magazine, Fanfare, commenting, \Tim Hugh has unquestionably set the benchmark in the Arthur Bliss Cello Concerto, and when reviewing the Britten Cello Suites they added, "I don't expect to hear these performances bettered". Northern Sinfonia is acknowledged as one of Europe's finest chamber orchestras, and is the major provider of orchestral music in the North East of England. It gives over 100 concerts in the area each year, and its many overseas tours have taken it to all parts of the world, inclu
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