I never heard about Nicolaus Kraft. These concertos for cello (there are at least 3 concertos available on YT) are really umporessive. The orchestral introduction is fully romantic. There is a deep felling in the soloist part. Thses concertos semms to me to mark a clear turn in the story of the romantic cello, which Beethoven evidenced as a soloist in chamber music through his five sonatas for cello and piano. These concertos are contemporary of the two last sonatas of Beethoven. It is a great discovery for me.

@pietrolandri6081

5 жыл бұрын

You're right. On Spotify you'll find only a Polonaise. Nothing on Primephonic. YT is more generous. Apparently he's not gotten enough interest even from whom is "unsung masterpieces" addicted. Wikipedia just says he wrote 6 concertos, so God knows what else he wrote that would be great to get back from obscurity. Paradoxically dad Antonin got a little more interest. He was a cellist too in the Haydn era. Interesting to compare dad and son cello works

@steveegallo3384

2 жыл бұрын

Gérard Begni -- At last, we finally Agree....on something!

Certifié intergalactique! Hosek est l'un des plus grands violoncellistes que je ai jamais entendu parler.

Спасибо за познавательный.момент

Thank you dear colleague! You did very impressive work on learnig and recording those three concertos, and I think it is very important for all fo us to hear them! Greetings from Russia

いやーほんとに美しいです。感動しました！ 演奏機会に恵まれないのが本当にもったいない。

This is such a beautiful concerto. Thanks for sharing. :)

Another revelation, thanks.

@JohannaA.5013

5 жыл бұрын

@KuhlauDilfeng2 what id the name of the picture and author?

@darrylschultz9311

5 жыл бұрын

@@JohannaA.5013 It looks like it could be one of the paintings from The Future Effects Of Climate Change series.This one's titled "The Ocean Rushing In Over The Peaks Of The Himalayas".

A wonderful intense work!

KuhlauDilfeng2 à toujours de bons filons (sources), merci

Interesting Work, Kraft was without any doubt Cellist himself... ;)

Your channel is rare❤️

Thank you! :-)

7:20-11:40 is the best thing i've heard in a long time

Thanks. Nice little known work from Mr. Kraft.

I never heard of this guy before. And that's bizarre because hearing his works for the first time they are instantly likable. So why didn't N. Kraft "make it" to musical stardom?

@seiyaj.hinouchi8416

3 жыл бұрын

Because we live in an arbitrary world

@brianknapp8645

3 жыл бұрын

Today the problem is that Kraft's last name is not Beethoven, Schubert, or any of the best known composers. Concert halls are deathly afraid of playing music like Kraft's because they might lose revenue.

@sidlori1592

Жыл бұрын

@@brianknapp8645 IMO that's because more often than not said concert halls program "sound effects" by Ades, Schoenberg and others--conditioning people to not show up /unless/ the names are ones commonly recognized, such as Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Schubert, etc. Was at a concert a few years back where the "well known name" was on the first half of the program. A large percentage of the audience left at intermission--but the rest of the program was music by present-day composers. (Unfortunately, said remainder was also of rather tuneful selections.)

Inspirational

@Stefan Rogers Haydn wrote the concerto in D for Nicolaus' father Anton

Your information is from the 2nd Cello Concerto.

I need the sheet music pleaseeeee!! It's for a project

picture author??

Intonation god!!

@borisbrinkmann

2 жыл бұрын

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Any sheet music of this concerto?

What is the name of the painting and author?

5:30 sounds like Mozart

@zhunmao3784

4 жыл бұрын

Concerto for Piano No. 21 (K 467)

Not anymore.

it is a pity this recording is so hard to obtain.

@Imagine-Baggins

8 жыл бұрын

+Rev Stephen Gamble It's on iTunes and Amazon

@revstephengamble7786

8 жыл бұрын

+ImagineBaggins - as downloads.

@borisbrinkmann

2 жыл бұрын

Some of us would prefer to have the original physical CompactDiscs.

0:28 it sounds so mozartian

To be honest, speaking as a cellist myself, I wish these concertos had been recorded with more care from the soloist. Playing is so sloppy, lets the otherwise pretty decent music down in both this and his E minor concerto. Wish a top class soloist would dare to record these.

Is it me or does that cello sound badly out tune?

@TheYgds

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think it is the cellist as much as it might be the woodwinds. It sounds like the cellist keeps adjusting to compensate for slightly out of tune sections. When the woodwinds are accompanying he is much more out of tune, when the strings are accompanying he is right where he should be for the most part. It is definitely something that you are supposed to correct well before beginning.

@borisbrinkmann

2 жыл бұрын

No, he absolutely is. The music is rather difficult, but there are lots of cellists who would be able to play it more perfectly. But at least it's musically fine, and since we have only the choice to listen to this or to a famous cellist playing a famous concerto, we obviously have to be thankful to have this.

Too bad Jiří Hošek's recordings are the only ones of Kraft's 3 concertos. I so wish that the best known concert musicians would take up and champion more of these excellent but mostly ignored concertos. Then even some of concert halls here in the USA would have to put up with this music because the big name soloists performed it.