Sinfonia concertante for Two Flutes and Orchestra in G major

Rondo


  • Recorded: July 1991
  • Record Place: Domovina Studio
  • First Release: 1992
  • (P) 1992 SUPRAPHON a.s.
  • Genre: Chamber Music

Artists

  • music by: Anton Stamitz
  • flute: Jiří Válek
  • flute: Radomír Pivoda jr.
  • conductor: František Vajnar
  • musical group: Prague Chamber Orchestra

Album

Prague Chamber Orchestra, František Vajnar

Stamitz Carl & Anton: Concertos for Wind Instruments

Catalogue Number: SU 3948-2
Published: 23rd May 2008
First release: SUPRAPHON, 1992
Genre: Chamber Music
Format: 1 CD
The names of the brothers Anton and Carl Stamitz, just like that of their father, Jan Václav Stamic, are primarily synonymous with Mannheim and the local orchestra, which as early as from the middle of the 18th century set new trends in instrumental music. Both of them arose from this milieu, yet their masterly violin playing was later on admired by listeners in Paris and other European music centres (in Germany, England, The Netherlands…). At the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, their concertos for wind instruments were performed by musicians no less famous and travelled. The horn-player Zdeněk Tylšar and the clarinettist Bohuslav Zahradník especially are still referred to by specialists with the greatest respect and reverence. In their time,both of them disseminated worldwide the splendid reputation of the Czech "wind school", also as soloists of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. The Stamitz brothers' concertos afford soloists prodigious scope for virtuosity and musicality. And on this album the soloists in question make use of it to the full, thereby providing us with the opportunity to enjoy an hour's worth of music in the style of one of the most significant music centres of the second half of the 18th century.


Wind concertos by the Stamitz brothers: gallantry and virtuosity of the Mannhim School
Carl Philipp Stamitz
Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in E flat major
1. Allegro 10:55
2. Siciliano. Con espressione 06:50
3. Rondo. Allegro 07:10
Carl Philipp Stamitz
Concerto for French Horn and Orchestra in E flat major
4. Allegro moderato 07:33
5. Adagio 04:47
6. Rondo 05:18
Anton Stamitz
Sinfonia concertante for Two Flutes and Orchestra in G major
7. Allegro 07:48
8. Adagio 03:49
9. Rondo 05:49