Cello Concerto no 2 in D major – Haydn
by richibi
“A Cello“ (1921)
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between Bach’s transcendent Suites for
Cello and Beethoven’s reinvention of that
instrument, two only cello works occupy
the last half of that century, both by
Haydn
his Second, however, Concerto, written
several years later than his First, 1783,
indeed nearly twenty years later, seems
to me less accomplished, though ever,
nevertheless, unimpeachably, and
impressively, Haydn
the first movement is long, long works
only until you start thinking it’s long
the initial melody in the adagio, the
second movement, struck me as artificial,
saccharine, though Haydn weaves magic,
not unexpectedly, still, and
continuously, around it in its
development, his elaboration of it
and the pace of the third movement,
following the second, is disconcerting
rather than surprising, rather than,
were it effective, delightful
Mozart wrote a Cello Concerto too,
apparently, but, if so, it is lost
otherwise we’re on to the next historical
epoch, Beethoven’s, after this inauspicious
turn at this generation for the cello, lost
for a while among the more assertive
instruments of that prim, and proper,
Classical Era
R ! chard
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