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Matthias Bamert, London Mozart Players - Contemporaries Of Mozart - Myslivecek: Symphonies (2004)

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Matthias Bamert, London Mozart Players - Contemporaries Of Mozart - Myslivecek: Symphonies (2004)

Matthias Bamert, London Mozart Players - Contemporaries Of Mozart - Myslivecek: Symphonies (2004)
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Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog Number: 10203

Josef Myslivecek dropped out of university at the age of sixteen, and along with his twin brother became an apprentice to the family millers’ business. In 1758 both became journeymen, and in 1761, master millers. It was soon after this that Myslivecek decided to devote himself to music. He studied organ and composition and in 1763 left Prague for Venice where he studied operatic composition. He immediately became known as ‘Il Boemo’ (The Bohemian) because his name was impossible for the Italians to pronounce. Myslivecek’s first opera was staged in 1766 and a further opera was produced a year later for the birthday of the King of Naples, but despite this early success and the enormity of his output (which included concertos, a quantity of chamber music, some forty-five symphonies, oratorios and nearly thirty operas), Myslivecek died in abject poverty, in Rome, at the age of fifty-four.

Josef Myslivecek’s output of orchestral music offers some of the finest examples of a gracious eighteenth-century Italian symphonic style that is little heard today except for occasional performances of Sammartini, Boccherini and J.C. Bach, and a group of Italianate symphonies by W.A. Mozart. Myslivecek was the most talented symphonist resident in Italy at the time of Mozart’s visits in the early 1770s and he provided Mozart with many important stylistic models. In fact, Myslivecek was on friendly terms with both Leopold and Wolfgang Mozart for many years but the relationship soured in 1778 when Myslivecek failed to secure a promised operatic commission for Wolfgang.

Myslivecek’s symphonies contain a wealth of impressive orchestral techniques as well as exquisite slow movements. It is arguably possible to discern in his music some traces of a dynamic personality whose outstanding qualities were described by Mozart as ‘fire, spirit and life’.

Composer: Josef Myslivecek
Conductor: Matthias Bamert
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Mozart Players

Reviews: One can readily discern from the headnote that six full-fledged “symphonies,” as we commonly understand the term today, would not fit onto a single CD. You would be correct, therefore, to assume that these works all fall into the category of three-movement (fast–slow–fast) Italian models of J. C. Bach, Carl Friedrich Abel, and countless other composers who were born right around the same time as Franz Joseph Haydn, but who did not possess his creative imagination and who seem to have remained largely uninfluenced by his pioneering innovations in the realm of the symphony.

Josef Myslive?ek (1737–1781) is a bit of an anomaly in that he was actually five years Haydn’s junior, though Haydn outlived him by nearly 30 years. Let us not, however, judge Myslive?ek too harshly for the fact that he did not write symphonies of a stature comparable to Haydn’s. How many composers of the period did? Instead, let us grant that this Prague-born, Italian-trained composer and one-time friend of the Mozarts (both Leopold and Wolfgang) was a sturdy, professional, better-than-average craftsman who turned out nearly 30 operas, numerous oratorios, concertos, and chamber works, before dying in poverty at the age of 44.

The music is more Classical than it is rococo, but it is not yet the mature Classical style of Haydn and Mozart. The outer fast movements are, as expected, festive, bracing, scintillating, and buoyant. Slow movements are more andante than adagio, and in the customary stil galant manner. Orchestration for this period and type of work is standard—strings, horns, oboes, and the occasional flute. This is not music that has an important statement to make, but it is healthy, bubbly, full of energy, and takes pleasure and delight in just being alive. Speaking only for myself, this is the kind of music that I like to have going in the background to accompany performing some menial, mindless task like folding laundry. It brightens the day and makes the chore seem so much less burdensome.

This is really a delightful disc, and apparently premiere recordings of these symphonies. Several other CDs of Myslive?ek’s concertos and oratorio and opera excerpts appear to be available, so it’s not as if he has been totally neglected. The London Mozart Players is a well-known ensemble that sounds from its name like it ought to be a period-instruments band, but isn’t. I have several of their recordings with Jane Glover conducting, as well as with Matthias Bamert, who conducts the current offering, and who it appears is working his way through a number of lesser known Classical composers—Vanhal, Vranicky, Kozeluch, etc.—under Chandos’s rubric, “Contemporaries of Mozart” series. The Londoners under Bamert play with insouciant and infectious verve. Usual Chandos sound—i.e., excellent. Definitely recommended.

Tracklisting:

Symphony in C major, F 26 9:16
in C-Dur - en ut majeur
1 I Allegro con spirito 4:14
2 II Andante 2:59
3 III Presto 2:03

Symphony in A major, F 27 8:54
in A-Dur - en la majeur
4 I Allegro con brio 3:47
5 I Andante 3:00
6 III Allegro 2:07

Symphony in F major, F 28 10:50
7 I Allegro 5:11
8 II Andante 3:14
9 III Presto 2:25

Symphony in D major, F 29 10:04
in D-Dur - en ré majeur
10 I Allegro assai 4:14
11 II Andante grazioso 2:56
12 III Prestissimo 2:54

Symphony in B flat major, F 30 10:09
in B-Dur - en si bémol majeur
13 I Allegro con spirito 4:00
14 II Andante 3:25
15 III Presto 2:44

Symphony in G major, F31 10:54
in G-Dur - en sol majeur
16 I Allegro con brio 5:11
17 II Andante 3:04
18 III Presto assai 2:37
60:27

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