Release Date: 11 January 2014
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 747313324972
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Beck
Description
The court at Mannheim, one of Europe's great eighteenth-century musical centres, provided myriad opportunities for creative development. Having absorbed the ideas of his teacher, Johann Stamitz, and of other luminaries, Beck wrote a series of symphonies notable for their dramatic contrasts, breadth and sweep, the progressive inclusion of woodwinds and a willingness to explore expressive intensity. Further Beck Symphonies may be heard on Naxos 8.553790, 8.554071, 8.570799 and 8.573248.Franz Ignaz Beck,/b> composed symphonies from the 1750s, when the genre was in its infancy, and they have long been regarded as some of the most important early symphonic statements. Couched in the Mannheim school they can rank with the symphonies of Stamitz in the structural clearness and melodic ingenuity. This is the second in the Beck series - the first was on 8.573848.
Tracklisting
Peter Otto; Nashville Symphony; Giancarlo Guerrero
Dariia Lytvishko
Warsaw Po:Wit
Fort Smith Symph:John Jeter
Azulejos Guitar Duo
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
Ensemble Pro Victoria, Toby Ward
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra; Hungarian National Choir; Gyorgy Vashegyi; Guylaine Gira
Poco
L. Van Beethoven
Igor Stravinsky
Global Stage Orchestra
Alan Parsons Project, The
Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir; Andrei Petrenko
