Haydn Sung-Won Yang, Orchestre National Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes & Thomas Zehetmair

• Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809): Cello Concerto in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1:
• 1 Haydn: Cello Concerto in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1: I. Moderato 09:39
• 2 Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1: II. Adagio 08:17
• 3 Haydn: Cello Concerto No.1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1: III. Finale. Allegro molto 06:44
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Sinfonia concertante in A Major for Violin, Viola, Cello & Orchestra, K. 320e:
• 4 Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in A Major for Violin, Viola, Cello & Orchestra, K. 320e (Compl. Zehetmair) 09:17
• Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb:2:
• 5 Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb:2: I. Allegro moderato 14:41
• 6 Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb:2: II. Adagio 05:23
• 7 Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb:2: III. Rondo. Allegro 05:06
• Total Runtime 59:07

Info for Haydn

Joseph Haydn’s concertos for violoncello and orchestra stand out for their lightness and elegance. The Concerto in C major Hob. VIIb:1 was most likely written between 1762 and 1765, when Haydn was already in service as Kapellmeister, or music director, to Prince Esterházy. The concerto was for a long time known only through an entry by Haydn in his handwritten catalogue of works, and the music itself was unknown. It was not until 1961 that a copy of the work was found, and since then it has successfully held its own against the Concerto in D major Hob. VII:2. The services of Haydn specialist Sonja Gerlach have been obtained for this edition of the concerto with piano accompaniment. She enriches the Urtext edition with a detailed preface that also examines focuses on the execution of the ornaments and the cadenzas.

Mozart in Kirchheimbolanden: During the long winter of 1777/78, which Mozart spent with his mother in Mannheim, he undertook several trips to the Palatinate region on the left bank of the Rhine. The longest and most significant of these took him to Kirchheimbolanden at the end of January 1778 for six days to visit Princess Caroline of Nassau-Weillburg, whom Mozart had known since his childhood when she still lived at her father's court in the Netherlands. Caroline was now the prince's wife in the northern Palatinate capital, living between the palace, the orangery and the town centre. Mozart thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere in the small royal seat: the court orchestra was led by talented musicians, especially the concertmaster Paul Rothfischer, who came from Bavaria. His contemporaries raved about him: ‘He drew the most beautiful glaston from his violin and set his concertos for this instrument as thoroughly and tastefully as he knew how to perform them with feeling and expression, without any grimacing.’ (Gustav Schilling, Encyclopaedia of the Complete Musical Sciences, Stuttgart 1838)

During Joseph Haydn’s lifetime, concertos for solo instruments and ensemble were generally written for a particular musician. In the case of Haydn’s violoncello Concerto in D major Hob.VII:2, this person was Anton Kraft, first cello in the Esterházy ensemble and later one of Vienna’s greatest virtuosi. This composition for a particular occasion has become a masterpiece for the ages; an autograph score by the composer survives, dating from 1783. The services of Haydn specialist Sonja Gerlach have been obtained for this edition of the concerto with piano accompaniment. She enriches the Urtext edition with a detailed preface that also examines the execution of the ornaments and the cadenzas.

Sung-Won Yang, cello
Orchestre national Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Thomas Zehetmair, conductor

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