Boccherini: Overture in D Major, G. 521, Symphony in C Minor, G. 519 & Cello Concerto, G. 482 - Haydn: Symphony No. 94 "Surprise" & Cello Concerto No. 2 (Remastered)

Apart from Mozart, Carlo Maria Giulini rarely ventured into eighteenth-century music, which makes these recordings - always magnificent successes - all the more precious! Haydn's symphony known as “The Surprise”, which was one of Giulini's favorite orchestral pieces and which he played a great deal in concert, is rendered here with great humor and energy by the Philharmonia Orchestra. As for the second cello concerto, one of the greatest pages in the repertoire, it is performed here with his usual brio by János Starker, who can also be heard in one of the hits by Boccherini, a contemporary of Haydn. Also by Boccherini, the Overture in D Major, rarely recorded on disc: this performance by Giulini is also available in digital format for the first time.