Lodovico Giustini da Pistoia - 12 Sonate da Cimbalo di piano e forte (Florence, 1732)

Lodovico Giustini da Pistoia - 12 Sonate da Cimbalo di piano e forte (Florence, 1732)
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Brilliant Classics | Recorded: 2009 | Released: 2010
Andrea Coen

- Lodovico Giustini da Pistoia wrote the very first published work in the history of music especially composed for the fortepiano, in an agreeable style between Baroque and Pre-Classical. Works before that time were playable both on harpsichord and fortepiano.
- The instrument on this recording is the precious copy built by Kerstin Schwarz after the original Cristofori’s piano of Leipzig 1726.
- Andrea Coen is a Italian scholar and musician, who also wrote the most informative linernotes.
- New recordings

Franz Joseph Haydn - Applausus, Cantata HobXXIVa:6

Franz Joseph Haydn - Applausus, Cantata HobXXIVa:6
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Capriccio | Recorded: 2008 | Released: 2010
Capella Augustina - Andreas Spering

 

The celebratory cantata Applausus (1768) was commissioned in honour of the abbot of the Cistercian monastery at Zwettl; because Haydn was unable to be present, he accompanied the work with a long and informative letter on performing practice.

Leopold Mozart - Der Mensch, ein Gottesmorder

Leopold Mozart - Der Mensch, ein Gottesmorder
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Amadeus | Recorded: 2007 | Released: 2007
Harmonices Mundi - Bozen Baroque Ensemble - Claudio Astronio

Ignaz Pleyel - Clarinet Concertos 1&2 + Sinfonia Concertante

Ignaz Pleyel - Clarinet Concertos 1&2 + Sinfonia Concertante
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CPO | Recorded: 2007 | Released: 2008
Dieter Klöcker, Sandra Arnold - Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim / Sebastian Tewinkel

Tracklist

Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra No.1 in B-flat major: I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Rondo
Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra No.2 in B-flat major: I. Allegro vivace
II. Adagio
III. Rondo
Sinfonia Concertante in B-flat major (Concerto for 2 clarinets & orchestra): I. Allegro
II. Rondo moderato  

Giovanni Battista Sammartini - The Late Symphonies Vol.2

Giovanni Battista Sammartini - The Late Symphonies Vol.2
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  Brilliant Classics| Recorded: 2008 | Released: 2010
Accademia d’Arcadia (on period instruments) - Alessandra Rossi Lürig

Giovanni Battista Sammartini was born in Milan, and unlike his contemporaries,spent all of his life working in his home city. Sammartini vies with Haydn for the title `father of the symphony'. He was a great innovator, and his symphonic works resulted from his experimentation with the concerto grosso and trio sonata forms of the baroque age. His works were widely published in all the major cities of Europe, and he was on friendly terms with Gluck who he taught from 1737-41, and Mozart who he met during the young Austrian's visit to Milan. His influence upon composers such as Gossec, J.C Bach and Johann Stamitz was considerable. Sadly Sammartini's legacy has been inextricably caught up with the fate of Milan at the end of the 18th century, and much of his music was taken to Vienna and Paris after his death by invading French forces. On top of that much of it was destroyed during the Second World War. It was as recently as 1968 that serious research on his surviving manuscripts took place. His late symphonies are superbly crafted forward looking works, eschewing attention grabbing effects for graceful and complex harmonies, with elaborate rhythms. World premiere recordings of highly influential works in the history of the symphony. Vol. 1 Sammartini Symphonies is available on Brilliant Classics 93610. New recordings on period instruments

Pokorny - Rosetti - Punto - Horn Concertos

Pokorny - Rosetti - Punto - Horn Concertos
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Supraphon | Recorded: 2008 | Released: 2010
Radek Baborak - Prague Chamber Orchestra / Antonin Hradil