Release Date: 12 January 2000
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4891030504592
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Czech Horn Concertos
Description
Czech Horn Concertos Josef Fiala (1748 - 1816)Concerto in E Flat Major for Two HornsFrantišek Xaver Pokorny (1729 - 1794)Concerto in F Major for Two Horns Francesco Antonio Rosetti (c.1750 - 1792)Concerto in A Flat Major for Two Horns Concerto in E Flat Major for Two HornsBohemia boasts a long musical history, with achievement at alllevels of the art. Of particular distinction were the Bohemian horn-players of theeighteenth century, the first to experiment with the middle and lower register of theinstrument, creating notes outside the harmonic series by the insertion of the hand intothe bell of the instrument. This technique gave the instrument new possibilities, furtherincreased by other technical developments in Dresden and elsewhere, particularly throughthe Bohemian player and teacher Carl Haudek and his Prague-born colleague Anton JosephHampel, teachers of the Czech Giovanni Punto, born Jan Vaclav Stich and so much admired byMozart.Mozart was favourably impressed too by the achievement ofJoseph Fiala, oboist, cellist, player of the viola da gamba and composer. Born in WesternBohemia at Lochovice in 1748, he was employed first by Countess Netolicka and then asoboist by Prince Kraft Ernst Oettingen-Wallerstein before, in 1777, entering the serviceof the Elector Maximilian Joseph in Munich. Mozart heard the wind band trained by Fialaduring the course of a visit to Munich in 1777 and thought well enough of him as acomposer and as a musician to help him to secure a position in Salzburg after the death ofthe Elector in 1778. He remained in Salzburg unti11785, when he moved to Vienna and mayhave found work for the moment as trainer of a wind band for Prince Esterhazy. In 1786 heentered the service of the Russian Empress Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg. Fouryears later he was again in Germany, performing on the viola da gamba for thecello-playing monarch King Friedrich Wilheim II of Prussia, and in 1792 he took his finalemployment as Kapellmeister to Prince F??rstenberg at Donaueschingen, where much of hismusic has been preserved. The three-movement E flat Concerto for Two Horns is very much inthe idiom of his time, of which it is an elegant and attractive example.The name Pokorny is not uncommon in Bohemia and not uncommonamong musicians, perhaps through its connotations with modest humility. FrantišekXaver Pokorny was born at Mies in 1729. He studied first at Regensburg, before becoming apupil of Johann Stamitz, Franz Xaver Richter and Ignaz Holzbauer, his Bohernianfellow-countrymen, in Mannheim, through the patronage of Count Philipp KarlOettingen-Wallerstein. From 1766 he was in the service of the Princes von Thurn und Taxisin Regensburg. It is thought that the horn virtuoso Beate Pokorny may have been hissister. His compositions include some 100 symphonies, not all of which can beauthenticated, and three concertos for two horns, of which the present F major Concerto isan attractive example.Ambiguity of nomenclature is found in th
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yue Yu; Jeffrey Armstrong; Anthony Hewitt
Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen
Valentin Malinin; Bretón String Quartet
