Pieter Wispelwey plays Haydn's Cello Concerto in C with the Sydney Symphony, by Andrew Miller

Cellist Pieter Wispelwey played the Haydn Cello Concerto No 1 on a 1760 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini cello.

Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall: 15 April 2011
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade in E flat for wind octet, K375

Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 49 in f minor
Cello Concerto No. 1 in C, Hob. VIIb:1
Cello Concerto No. 2, single movement (as encore)
cello-director - Pieter Wispelwey

Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Oboist Diana Doherty led the first piece, the Mozart wind octet with a string bass, wood wind and horn players from the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. A fine group of musicians who did shine in recent large symphonic performances, especially Mahler's Sixth, it is nonetheless good they had the chance to play as a chamber group without a conductor. One might think the piece might be a little too intimate for the large symphonic hall, and it is occasional music composed for a specific room in a specific nobleman's palace, like many of Mozart's serenades, sinfoniettas, divertissements, cassations etc.

Read the full review on the Berkshire Review, an International journal for the Arts!

Michael Miller