Catalogue

Summary:

“This conductor-less release from Avie manages to capture something too often lost in recordings of the early cello concerto repertoire: fun … Croisé plays with the benevolence of an 18th-century king, spinning phrases of loving length, generous is resonance and appoggiatura … This is a recording teeming with sparkle and relentless in fizz.” – Gramophone

International Classical Music Awards 2019: Nominee – Concerto

Winner of the Berliner International Music Competition, the Prix Jeune Soliste des Médias Francophones Publics, and the International Manhattan Music Competition, young cellist Christoph Croisé debuts on AVIE performing the two Cello Concertos by Joseph Haydn. His fresh and fervent approach is matched by his collaborators, the Eurasian Soloists Chamber Orchestra, as they recreate the original set up of the works’ first performances in the Esterhazy Castle when the composer directed from the harpsichord alongside the first violinist and the soloist. Christoph concludes the album with Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto for Violin and Cello, RV 547, joined by the orchestra’s founder and director, Kazakh violinist Sherniyaz Mussakhan.

Tracklist:

JOSEPH HAYDN (1732–1809)

Cello Concerto No. 1 in C, Hob VIIb:1
1. I. Moderato (10.09)
2. II. Adagio (7.38)
3. III. Allegro molto (6.18)

Cello Concerto No. 2 in D, Hob VIIb:2
4. I. Allegretto moderato (14.55)
5. II. Adagio (5.01)
6. III. Rondo: Allegro (5.00)

ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678–1741)

Concerto for Violin and Cello, RV 547
7. I. Allegro (3.59)
8. II. Andante (2.03)
9. III. Allegro molto (2.29)

Total duration: 57.37

Christoph Croisé, cello
Eurasian Soloists Chamber Orchestra
Sherniyaz Mussakhan, violin/director

Recording: November 2017, Kirche Obertrass Zürich, Switzerland
Recording producer: Joël Cormier