Cellist Andreas Brantelid's gut-stringed cello, sounding rather hornlike, may take a few minutes to get used to, and one might take issue with certain aspects of this Naxos release by Concerto Copenhagen and leader Lars Ulrik Mortensen, including the garishly over-intimate sound and the group's tendency, so common among Baroque groups playing Classical-era music, to make the Haydn Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, Hob. 7b:2, sound like a Baroque piece. Yet the listener comes away from the album fully satisfied, and its ...
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Cellist Andreas Brantelid's gut-stringed cello, sounding rather hornlike, may take a few minutes to get used to, and one might take issue with certain aspects of this Naxos release by Concerto Copenhagen and leader Lars Ulrik Mortensen, including the garishly over-intimate sound and the group's tendency, so common among Baroque groups playing Classical-era music, to make the Haydn Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, Hob. 7b:2, sound like a Baroque piece. Yet the listener comes away from the album fully satisfied, and its commercial success is entirely deserved. The accomplishment of Brantelid and Mortensen is to give the "transitional" Cello Concerto in A major, Wq 172, of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and the Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, Hob. 7b/1, their full weight. After all, Bach and Haydn did not think of what they were doing as transitional when they wrote these works. The central movement of the Bach concerto, framed by a pair of Baroque-sounding movements, would have passed muster with...
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Add this copy of Times of Transition to cart. $32.47, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2021 by Naxos.
