Herbstgold Festival: Opening Concert - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Pablo Ferrández, violoncello
Riccardo Minasi, conductor
Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 88 in G major Hob I:88
Joseph Haydn: Concerto for violoncello and orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C major K. 551 "Jupiter"

"I was isolated from the world, no one around me could make me mad and torment me, and so I had to become original," Joseph Haydn once wrote about his workplace. But it was precisely Haydn's originality that was to make him the most famous composer of his time. The humorous Symphony Hob. I:88, for example, was written for Paris, but was also published in Vienna and London without Haydn having earned any money from it. By contrast, his Cello Concerto in C major, probably written for Franz Joseph Weigl, the solo cellist of the Esterházy court orchestra, was only rediscovered in Prague in the 1960s. And the ingenious "Jupiter Symphony" by Haydn's friend Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his last work in this genre and composed around the same time as Haydn's Symphony No. 88, could have been played in Dresden, Frankfurt or Vienna during Mozart's lifetime. What is certain is that it went out into the world as the epitome of classical music. And it is also certain that the cellist Pablo Ferrández, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Riccardo Minasi are stylistically expert interpreters, who present the brilliance and grandeur of Haydn's and Mozart's works with verve.

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