MASTERCLASS
From Haydn Cello Concerto in C major. Urtext editi on, paperbound with marked and unmarked string parts. Ed. Sonja Gerlach. Pf reducti on Christoph Held. Vc fingering and bowing Reiner Ginzel. Orchestral material available from Bärenreiter. Order no.HN 417, ISMN 979-0-2018- 0417-0, €15. Printed with permission of G. Henle Verlag, Munich © 1989
This concerto was only ‘ discovered’ in 1961, in the Prague National Museum archives. I learnt it almost immediately, although at the time I had no sense of period performance. In the 1970s, when the Early Music Movement began to develop, I bought an old school cello, had it converted and suddenly found myself on the front desk of John Eliot Gardiner’s English Baroque Soloists! I soon acquired a much better instrument, made by Peter Wamsley in 1725, which I still play today. For the next ten years we played nothing but Baroque music, with no spike and no vibrato!