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

Released in co-production with Radioservis, a. s. a division of Czech Radio.
Recorded for Czech Radio at the Church of Saints Simon and Jude, Prague, November 27 and 30, 2008.
With his successful career, Baborák has linked up to the fates of the Czech horn players who back in the second half of the 18th century gained fame in prominent chapels in the territory of today’s Germany.
The most renowned of them, Giovanni Punto, enthralled Mozart and Beethoven to such an extent that they even dedicated compositions of theirs to him. Yet other Czech composers too had a penchant for
Composing for horn; František Xaver Pokorný for his daughter, the horn virtuoso Beata; Antonio Rosetti for Josef Nagel and František Zvěřina, outstanding Czech hornists in the Wallerstein court chapel.
Even though Radek Baborák hasn’t Italianised his name, his international acclaim proves that the “hornist from Bohemia” phenomenon has lost none of its meaning since the 18th century.

Tracklist

František Xaver Pokorný (1729–1794)
Concerto for French Horn, Timpani and Strings in D major
1 I. Allegro moderato
2 II. Andante poco larghetto
3 III. Allegro

Antonio Rosetti (c. 1750–1792)
Concerto for French Horn and Orchestra in E flat major, C 49/K III:36
4 I. Allegro molto
5 II. Romance
6 III. Rondeau. Allegretto non troppo

Antonio Rosetti
Concerto for French Horn and Orchestra in D minor, C 38/K III:43
7 I. Allegro molto
8 II. Romance
9 III. Rondeau

Giovanni Punto / Jan Václav Stich (1746–1803)
Concerto for French Horn and Orchestra No. 5 in F major
10 I. Allegro moderato
11 II. Adagio
12 III. Rondeau en chasse

Radek Baborák – French horn,
Prague Chamber Orchestra / Antonín Hradil