Pablo Ferrández, cello
Riccardo Minasi, conductor
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Joseph Haydn:Symphony No. 88 in G Major Hob I:88
Joseph Haydn:Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Symphony No. 41 in C Major KV 551 “Jupiter”
“I was isolated from the world, no one near me could make me doubt myself or torment me, and thus I had to become original,” wrote Joseph Haydn about his workplace. Yet, it was precisely Haydn's originality that would make him the most famous composer of his time. The humorous Symphony Hob. I:88, for instance, was written for Paris, but also appeared in Vienna and London without Haydn profiting from it. His C Major cello concerto, likely created for Franz Joseph Weigl, the solo cellist of the Esterházy court orchestra, was rediscovered only in the 1960s in Prague. And the brilliant “Jupiter Symphony” by Haydn's friend Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his last work in this genre and created around the same time as Haydn's Symphony No. 88, could have been performed during Mozart's lifetime in Dresden, Frankfurt, or Vienna. What is certain is that it has gone out into the world as an epitome of Classical music. And it is also certain that cellist Pablo Ferrández, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and Riccardo Minasi are stylistically knowledgeable interpreters who vividly present the brilliance and grandeur of Haydn's and Mozart's works.
Riccardo Minasi, conductor
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Joseph Haydn:Symphony No. 88 in G Major Hob I:88
Joseph Haydn:Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Symphony No. 41 in C Major KV 551 “Jupiter”
“I was isolated from the world, no one near me could make me doubt myself or torment me, and thus I had to become original,” wrote Joseph Haydn about his workplace. Yet, it was precisely Haydn's originality that would make him the most famous composer of his time. The humorous Symphony Hob. I:88, for instance, was written for Paris, but also appeared in Vienna and London without Haydn profiting from it. His C Major cello concerto, likely created for Franz Joseph Weigl, the solo cellist of the Esterházy court orchestra, was rediscovered only in the 1960s in Prague. And the brilliant “Jupiter Symphony” by Haydn's friend Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his last work in this genre and created around the same time as Haydn's Symphony No. 88, could have been performed during Mozart's lifetime in Dresden, Frankfurt, or Vienna. What is certain is that it has gone out into the world as an epitome of Classical music. And it is also certain that cellist Pablo Ferrández, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and Riccardo Minasi are stylistically knowledgeable interpreters who vividly present the brilliance and grandeur of Haydn's and Mozart's works.