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

Jean-Guihen Queyras
»This man has reinvented the cello,« wrote Diapason magazine about Jean-Guihen Queyras, one of the world’s most diverse and extraordinary cellists. Queyras applies himself with equal enthusiasm to early and contemporary music. He gives concerts with ensembles specialising in historically informed performance such as the Freiburger Barockorchester, and also regularly premieres new works by composers such as Bruno Mantovani and Thomas Larcher.

Queyras is a regular on the world’s most prestigious concert stages. He is also popular with audiences in Hamburg: he has performed Bach’s Cello Suites in a choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in the Elbphilharmonie Grand Hall, and has given a concert at the Laeiszhalle with Emmanuel Pahud and Eric Le Sage. Chamber music is dear to his heart: he is a founding member of the Arcanto Quartet and plays as a trio with Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov.

His impressive discography includes recordings of cello concertos by Edward Elgar, Antonín Dvořák, Robert Schumann, Philippe Schoeller and Gilbert Amy. Queyras teaches at the Freiburg University of Music and is the Artistic Director of the Rencontres Musicales de Haute-Provence festival in Forcalquier in the south of France.

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