Early Haydn is music at formal and stylistic crossroads, and it was Haydn's path that others followed. His C-major Cello Concerto was one of the grandest concertos written up to that time, yet it also conveys Haydn's own evolving personality, something that Lynn Harrell picked up on in the affectionate and comic cadenzas he created for his recording of the piece.
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