Haydn - Cello Concertos; Hindemith - Trauermusik | BIS BIS2507

Haydn - Cello Concertos; Hindemith - Trauermusik

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BIS2507

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 2nd September 2022

Contents

Artists

Christian Poltera (cello)
Munchener Kammerorchester

Conductor

Christian Poltera

Works

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Cello Concerto in C major, Hob.VIIb:1
Cello Concerto in D major, Hob.VIIb:2 (op.101)
Symphony no.13 in D major, Hob.I:13
» II Adagio cantabile

Hindemith, Paul

Trauermusik

Artists

Christian Poltera (cello)
Munchener Kammerorchester

Conductor

Christian Poltera

About

Joseph Haydn once remarked: ‘I was not a magician on any instrument, but I knew the power and effect of all of them.’ This knowledge he used to good effect in his cello concertos, composed some twenty years apart for two different cellists in ‘his’ orchestra at the court of Prince Esterházy. Both works are firmly established in the concert repertoire, but this has not always been the case.

Concerto no.1 in C major was long believed to be lost and it was only in 1961 that a set of parts were discovered in the Prague National Museum. The D major Concerto, on the other hand, was never lost, but for a very long time there was doubts concerning its provenance. Only when Haydn's manuscript was found in 1954 could the work’s authorship be clarified beyond doubt. These two jewels in the cello repertoire are here performed by the acclaimed Swiss cellist Christian Poltéra who also directs the Münchener Kammerorchester.

Closing the disc is a work composed some 150 years later: the composer and viola player Paul Hindemith wrote his Trauermusik for himself to perform at a concert commemorating the death of George V of England in 1936. It is here heard in the version for cello and strings.

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