Baroque Bohemia & Beyond - World Premiere Recording
Label: Alto
Format: CD
Composers: František Xaver Richter, Jan Křitetel Vaňhal, Jan Václav Stamic, Jiří Antonín Benda, Josef Bárta
Directors: Vojtĕch Spurný, Zdenĕk Adam
Performers: Czech Chamber Philharmonic, Vojtĕch Spurný
Available: 1
Price: $8.99
Jiří Antonín Benda (1722-95)
Sinfonia No. 4 in F
Josef Bárta (1744-87)
Sinfonia in C minor
František Xaver Richter (1709-89)
Concerto in E-minor pro Cembalo (Harpsichord)
Jan Václav Stamic (1714-57)
Sinfonia Pastorale D major, op. 4/2
Jan Křitetel Vaňhal (1739-1813)
Sinfonia in E minor
Czech Chamber Philharmonic
Zdenek Adam, artistic director
Vojtech Spurný, conductor - harpsichord
One of a series of 3 discs focusing on this musical phenomenon.
| Track Listing | Time | MP3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jiří Antonín Benda | |||
| Sinfonia No. 4 in F | |||
| 1 | Allegro | 2:20 | |
| 2 | Andante | 2:00 | |
| 3 | Allegro | 1:44 |  |
| Josef Bárta | |||
| Sinfonia in C minor | |||
| 4 | Adagio - Grave - Allegro spiritoso | 5:26 | |
| 5 | Menuetto, Trio | 3:08 | |
| 6 | Finale. Presto | 4:48 | |
| František Xaver Richter | |||
| Concerto in E-minor pro Cembalo | |||
| 7 | Allegro | 10:50 | |
| 8 | Pastorale Cantabile | 4:31 | |
| 9 | Allegro Assai | 7:57 | |
| Jan Václav Stamic | |||
| Sinfonia Pastorale D major, op. 4/2 | |||
| 10 | Presto | 2:59 | |
| 11 | Larghetto | 3:42 | |
| 12 | Menuetto | 2:00 | |
| 13 | Presto Assai | 2:56 | |
| Jan Křitetel Vaňhal | |||
| Sinfonia in E minor | |||
| 14 | Allegro moderato | 9:01 | |
| 15 | Cantabile | 4:59 | |
| 16 | Menuetto ma un allegretto | 4:00 | |
| 17 | Allegro | 5:32 |
"Richter, Stamic and Vaňhal in particular influenced and even inspired Haydn & Mozart who played Vaňhal's music and who both played with him in a quartet alongside Dittersdorf… The Thirty Years War (1618-48) resulted in the Hapsburgs taking over the kingdom of Bohemia, but it was impossible to suppress the Czech love for music, a fact then exploited by the Austrian nobles who filled their new Bohemian estates with musical talent. Once government had been transferred to Vienna, many Czech musicians moved away from their homeland to find work around Europe. As one Czech historian put it: 'almost all the musical sources which welled up from the soil of Bohemia sped by the shortest course to join the main stream of the world's music'… Some went to Vienna itself: Bárta, Koželuh, Vaňhal and the Vranickýs, but some, including the Benda family went to Berlin, others to Mannheim (eg Stamic and Richter), while Rejcha settled in Paris and Mysliveček in Italy."
Peter Avis 2006