Some superb performances from these masked performers conducted from the cello by Giovanni Gnocchi.In the beautiful Teatro Rossini in Pesaro he led his very fine players in Haydn’s first cello concerto and also still with his beautiful steed in hand,conducted Haydn’s 39th Symphony.
Performances of such character and lightness.Playing the concerto without the score he also joined in the orchestral tuttis as well,such was his total understanding of the style and overall shape of this remarkable work.
The symphony,conducting from the score this time,but bringing such character to this the first of Haydn’s Symphonies in the minor key and of his ‘sturm und drang’ period.In G minor ‘Il tempesta di mare’ that was the inspiration for Mozart’s symphony n.25 in the same key.Haydn the father of the symphony indeed
ChristopherAxworthy-MusicCommentary 