Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 - Monn: Cello Concerto (Remastered) Jean-Guihen Queyras, Freiburger Barockorchester, Petra Müllejans

• Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809): Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob.VIIb:1:
• 1 Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob.VIIb:1: I. Moderato 10:23
• 2 Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob.VIIb:1: II. Adagio 08:12
• 3 Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob.VIIb:1: III. Finale. Allegro molto 06:17
• Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob.VIIb:2:
• 4 Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob.VIIb:2: I. Allegro moderato 14:44
• 5 Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob.VIIb:2: II. Un poco adagio 05:51
• 6 Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob.VIIb:2: III. Rondo all'Ungarese 04:58
• Georg Matthias Monn (1717 - 1750): Cello Concerto in G Minor:
• 7 Monn: Cello Concerto in G Minor: I. Allegro 05:52
• 8 Monn: Cello Concerto in G Minor: II. Adagio 07:36
• 9 Monn: Cello Concerto in G Minor: III. Allegro non tanto 04:44
• Total Runtime 01:08:37

Info for Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 - Monn: Cello Concerto (Remastered)

In 1961 the discovery of a manuscript caused a sensation in the world of music. Oldřich Pulkert, at that time librarian of the National Museum in Prague, found among its holdings, in a music collection originating in Radenín Castle, a set of manuscript parts of Joseph Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C major, Hob.VIIb:1, which until that time had been considered lost. The concerto’s existence had previously been known only from Haydn’s entry of the movements’ incipits in his so-called ‘Entwurfkatalog’, a listing of his works drawn up at the end of 1765. The rediscovered concerto quickly created a furore. It was printed by a Prague publisher in 1962, in an edition by Pulkert. On 19 May of the same year it was given its first modern performance by the cellist Miloš Sádlo and the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra under Charles Mackerras, and subsequently recorded commercially. Since then it has become a firm fixture among the relatively limited number of truly significant works in the concerto repertoire for the instrument, and been played by all the great cellists of our time. ...

Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello
Freiburger Barockorchester
Petra Müllejans, conductor

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