Verrückt nach Cello

Interpreters

Jean-Guihen Queyras . Direction & Violoncello
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

Programme

Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 36 in E flat major

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Cello Concerto in A major, Wq 172

Wolfgang Rihm
Night Order . 7 Fragments for 15 Solo Strings

Joseph Haydn
Cello Concerto in D major Hob. VIIb: 2

‘My language is understood throughout the world.’ (Haydn's response to the objection that he did not know enough languages for his trip to London)

He seems to have recorded everything – or at least almost everything – that has been written for the cello since its invention: Frenchman Jean-Guihen Queyras is a native speaker in all dialects of this instrument and possesses a musical sophistication that is second to none. ‘The purity of style, posture, phrasing, sensitivity, colours, and stunningly precise and agile articulation are simply admirable.’ (Diapason)

The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra frames the Cello Concerto in A major by Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel (to whom Haydn said he owed a great deal) with Wolfgang Rihm's ‘Nachtordnung’ (Night Order), based on a lyrical neologism by Paul Celan, as a modern contrast, and with Haydn's Symphony No. 36. The second movement of the latter stages an intimate conversation between cello and violin, while the fourth is one of the top 10 funniest final movements of all Haydn's symphonies. The powerful Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major follows as the finale. For what else could follow such a sparkle of ideas?