Haydn: Concerti per Esterházy
Amandine Beyer (violin), Marco Ceccato (cello), Gli Incogniti
Beyer’s accomplished performances are greatly helped by the alert playing of the orchestral strings. Indeed, the sense of sheer enjoyment in music-making is palpable throughout this disc.
Haydn: Concerti per Esterházy
Amandine Beyer (violin), Marco Ceccato (cello), Gli Incogniti
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Beyer’s accomplished performances are greatly helped by the alert playing of the orchestral strings. Indeed, the sense of sheer enjoyment in music-making is palpable throughout this disc.
About
During his first years in the service of the Esterházy princes, Joseph Haydn had every opportunity to show what he was capable of accomplishing as both instrumental soloist (on violin or keyboard) and composer; in fact, all his concertos, most of which date from the 1760s, offer a glimpse of a brilliant artist who gradually moved away from the style galant by inventing a new musical dialogue soon to become the Classical style.
Tailor-made for specific virtuosos in Haydn’s time, these works now receive the undivided attention of Gli Incogniti with their inspired soloists Amandine Beyer and Marco Ceccato. Their enthusiasm for this delightful and demanding music is irresistible.
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Awards and reviews
Christmas Issue 2018
Beyer’s accomplished performances are greatly helped by the alert playing of the orchestral strings. Indeed, the sense of sheer enjoyment in music-making is palpable throughout this disc.
November 2018
The C major and G major Concertos bookend this programme and Amandine Beyer and Gli Incogniti take an earthy approach to them, treating them not as somewhat rhapsodic ‘early’ works but rather as if they possessed all the motivic tautness of the middle-period symphonies…The tiny forces (just 10 string players) draw out a true chamber-like ambience in which the soloist is primus inter pares.
29th October 2018
Still using gut strings, they deliver beautifully articulated readings, the fast movements bustling with energy, the momentum in the slow ones finely judged. The soloists Ceccato and Beyer offer a pleasing range of light and shade.
Classical Music October 2018
Amandine Beyer is an eloquent soloist with her group, Gli Incogniti. Closely recorded, she is assertive and stylish. Marco Ceccato is a big, bold soloist in the famous C major Cello Concerto.
