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Peter Van Heyghen, Il Gardellino - Josef Mysliveček: Adamo & Eva (2019)

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Peter Van Heyghen, Il Gardellino - Josef Mysliveček: Adamo & Eva (2019)

Peter Van Heyghen, Il Gardellino - Josef Mysliveček: Adamo & Eva (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 667 Mb | Total time: 60:34+68:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Passacaille | # PAS1053 | Recorded: 2018

“Full of fire, spirit and life.” is how Mozart described this work of his contemporary, presented here for the first time on this new 2CD set. Mozart’s positive verdict on Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781) was intended to make the listener aware, for the fact that the extremely critical Salzburg composer expresses himself positively about a colleague is an absolute exception. His oratorio Adamo & Eva, performed in Florence in 1771, was composed at precisely the time when contact with the Mozart family seemed to have been particularly close.

Wendy Warner, Drostan Hall, Camerata Chicago - Haydn, Mysliveček: Cello Concertos (2013)

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Wendy Warner, Drostan Hall, Camerata Chicago - Haydn, Mysliveček: Cello Concertos (2013)

Wendy Warner, Drostan Hall, Camerata Chicago - Haydn, Mysliveček: Cello Concertos (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 328 Mb | Total time: 73:05 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Cedille Records | # CDR90000-142 | Recorded: 2012

Haydn & Myslivecek Cello Concertos features American cellist Wendy Warner and Camerata Chicago, conducted by its British-born founder, Drostan Hall. This is Warner's fifth recording for Cedille Records. A CD review in The Strad said her playing 'sizzles with virtuosity.' American Record Guide praised her 'tonal beauty and great conviction.' Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Camerata Chicago made its European concert debut in June with Warner asguest soloist in Hadyn's D Major Concerto.

Michal Kaňka, František Host, Jiří Hudec, Jaroslav Tůma - Josef Mysliveček: Sonate a Due Violoncelli e Basso (2022)

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Michal Kaňka, František Host, Jiří Hudec, Jaroslav Tůma - Josef Mysliveček: Sonate a Due Violoncelli e Basso (2022)

Michal Kaňka, František Host, Jiří Hudec, Jaroslav Tůma - Josef Mysliveček: Sonate a Due Violoncelli e Basso (2022)
WEB FLAC | Tracks ~ 336 Mb | Total time: 60:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Praga Digitals | PRD 250 132 | Recorded: 1998

Bohemian composer, remarkable violinist, Josef Mysliveček (1737-1781) was born close to Prague. Son of a miller, destined to follow the destiny of his father, it is nevertheless towards music that he turns, trained in his native town and encouraged by the enthusiastic reception of his first symphonies. He obtained a scholarship to Venice and migrated to Italy where his fame grew (he was nicknamed Il divino Boemo - The divine Czech), notably thanks to the success of his first opera, Semiramide, in 1766.

Matthias Bamert, London Mozart Players - Josef Mysliveček: Symphonies (2004)

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Matthias Bamert, London Mozart Players - Josef Mysliveček: Symphonies (2004)

Matthias Bamert, London Mozart Players - Josef Mysliveček: Symphonies (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 272 Mb | Total time: 60:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | CHAN 10203 | Recorded: 2003

Matthias Bamert and the LMP have dusted off some treats in their 'Contemporaries of Mozart' series for Chandos. This latest release, featuring premiere recordings of six symphonies by the Bohemian-born Josef Myslivecek, is one of the best. None of these works, dating back to the 1770s is much more than 10 minutes long, yet each is delightfully imaginative, and benefitting from the LMP's sprightly playing.

Vojtěch Spurný, Czech Chamber Philharmonic - Bohemian Baroque & Beyond Vol. 4: Mysliveček, Gallina, Vent, Bárta (2007)

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Vojtěch Spurný, Czech Chamber Philharmonic - Bohemian Baroque & Beyond Vol. 4: Mysliveček, Gallina, Vent, Bárta (2007)

Vojtěch Spurný, Czech Chamber Philharmonic - Bohemian Baroque & Beyond Vol. 4: Mysliveček, Gallina, Vent, Bárta (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 415 Mb | Total time: 72:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alto | # ALC 1014 | Recorded: 2007

The Thirty Years War (1618–48) had resulted in the Hapsburgs taking over the kingdom of Bohemia, but it was impossible to suppress the Czech love for music, a fact 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. As one Czech historian put it, ‘[A] lmost 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, Fiala, Vent, Koželuh, Vanhal and the Vranickýs, but some went to Berlin, others to Mannheim, while Mysliveček made his home in Italy.

Joyce DiDonato, Maxim Emelyanychev, Il Pomo d’Oro - Eden (2022)

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Joyce DiDonato, Maxim Emelyanychev, Il Pomo d’Oro - Eden (2022)

Joyce DiDonato, Maxim Emelyanychev, Il Pomo d’Oro - Eden: Ives, Portman, Mahler, Marini, Copland, Valentini, Cavalli, Gluck, Wagner, Handel, Mysliveček (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 302 Mb | Total time: 68:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato| # 0190296465154 | Recorded: 2021

"EDEN is an invitation to return to our roots. It is an overture to engage with the sheer perfection of the world around us, to consider if we are connecting as profoundly as we can to the pure essence of our being. It is a clarion call to contemplate if our collective suffering isn't perhaps linked to the aching separation from something primal within and around us. This is a vivid musical exploration through the centuries to remember and to create a new EDEN from within." - Joyce DiDonato

Albert Schweitzer Oktett - Josef Mysliveček: Three Wind Octets; Joseph Haydn: Partita (1995)

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Albert Schweitzer Oktett - Josef Mysliveček: Three Wind Octets; Joseph Haydn: Partita (1995)

Albert Schweitzer Oktett - Josef Mysliveček: Three Wind Octets; Joseph Haydn: Partita (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 194 Mb | Total time: 52:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 314-2 | Recorded: 1994

Myslivecek (1737-1781) was a Bohemian contemporary of Haydn. Some radio broadcasters have latched onto his music, and in fact it's ideal for radio, light, melodious, entertaining, and undemanding. Haydn's octet, although the work of a better composer, aims at the same entertainment level and, of course, reaches it unerringly. This ensemble is an expanded version of the Albert Schweitzer Quintet, which put us forever in its debt with its complete recordings for this label of Reicha's Wind Quintets. This music isn't as valuable, but the ensemble's playing is just as good. A lovely disc for a lazy day.

Simon Murphy, New Dutch Academy - Baroque Bohemia & Beyond VIII: Stamič, Richter, Mysliveček (2021)

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Simon Murphy, New Dutch Academy - Baroque Bohemia & Beyond VIII: Stamič, Richter, Mysliveček (2021)

Simon Murphy, New Dutch Academy - Baroque Bohemia & Beyond VIII: Stamič, Richter, Mysliveček (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 406 Mb | Total time: 76:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alto | # ALC 1443 | Recorded: 2003/5, 2016

[Mysliveček] “She is a charming, persuasive advocate … The ECO, too, offer fine support and with a range of tone colours, match de la Vega’s recreative imagination. Pentatone has captured these performances in particularly clear sound … De la Vega offers the first recording of a Concerto in D by Mysliveček, one that displays the utmost craftsmanship and appeal … her fine performance renders it memorable”.

Cecilia Bartoli, Muhai Tang, Kammerorchester Basel - Unreleased (2021)

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Cecilia Bartoli, Muhai Tang, Kammerorchester Basel - Unreleased (2021)

Cecilia Bartoli, Muhai Tang, Kammerorchester Basel - Unreleased: Haydn, Mysliveček, Mozart, Beethoven (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 293 Mb | Total time: 61:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 485 2093 | Recorded: 2013

During the pandemic, Cecilia paused her busy schedule and took time to go back through her archives. She is now releasing this never-before-heard album ‘Unreleased’, a celebration of the most famous concert arias from Mozart, Beethoven & Haydn. Recorded with the Kammerorchester Basel conducted by Muhai Tang, and featuring Maxim Vengerov as solo violin on track 6.

Christoph Spering, Das Neue Orchester - Josef Myslivecek: La Passione di Nostro Signore Gesu Cristo (2005)

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Christoph Spering, Das Neue Orchester - Josef Myslivecek: La Passione di Nostro Signore Gesu Cristo (2005)

Christoph Spering, Das Neue Orchester - Josef Mysliveček: La Passione di Nostro Signore Gesu Cristo (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 449 Mb | Total time: 59:10+43:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | # 71 025/26 | Recorded: 2004

Interesting that the librettist of this oratorio, none other than Pietro Metastasio, avoids biblical passages completely. In doing so, this lets in an emotive realism that allows a quasi-operatic treatment by Prague-born Myslivecek. The composer's penchant for Metastasio in his thirty-odd operas obviously extended to oratorio. The apostle Peter becomes a major figure in the drama. Absent from the crucifixion itself, he has to make urgent enquiry into the state of play. Enter Mary Magdalene - a Biblical character under much re-evaluation in current spirituality - who accompanied Jesus to the cross. Other characters include John (here of course Giovanni), the second eyewitness, Joseph of Arimathea (Giuseppe).

Werner Ehrhardt, L'arte del mondo - Josef Mysliveček: Medonte (2012)

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Werner Ehrhardt, L'arte del mondo - Josef Mysliveček: Medonte (2012)

Werner Ehrhardt, L'arte del mondo - Josef Mysliveček: Medonte (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 675 Mb | Total time: 62:27+73:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 88697861242 | Recorded: 2011

When this opera's oratorio was rediscovered in 1928, it was first believed to be composed by Mozart. But in fact it was a piece of the last opera of the Prague composer Josef Myslivecek (1731-1781), with whom Mozart had friendly relations and who indeed was inspired by Myslivecek’s work. This world premiere recording of the opera “Medonte” by the ensemble l’arte del mondo shows imposingly the exceptional skills of this wrongly neglected composer. Recorded live at the Bayer Kulturhaus, Leverkusen.

Michi Gaigg, L'Orfeo Barockorchester - Josef Mysliveček: Symphonies & 5 Overtures (2004)

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Michi Gaigg, L'Orfeo Barockorchester - Josef Mysliveček: Symphonies & 5 Overtures (2004)

Michi Gaigg, L'Orfeo Barockorchester - Josef Mysliveček: Symphonies & 5 Overtures (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 506 Mb | Total time: 106:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 050-2 | Recorded: 2003

Mysliveček, il divino Boemo (the title seems to have been a fictional exaggeration) was particularly associated with opera. But his instrumental works outnumber the operatic by some margin and some of his best-known works, to us at least, are his concertos. The years of his greatest triumphs were between about 1767 and 1777, a decade that saw foreign successes, meetings with Mozart and considerable operatic esteem. His Six Symphonies of 1772 are indebted to the Italianate three-movement form, which they have absorbed with considerable vivacity, and they show individual touches – modulations, wind solos and the like – that give them an individual stamp.

Ivan Pařík, Sinfonietta Praha - Josef Mysliveček: Abramo ed Isacco (1995)

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Ivan Pařík, Sinfonietta Praha - Josef Mysliveček: Abramo ed Isacco (1995)

Ivan Pařík, Sinfonietta Praha - Josef Mysliveček: Abramo ed Isacco (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 648 Mb | Total time: 142:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Supraphon | # SU 3209-2 232 | Recorded: 1991

A few brush strokes have come to define the otherwise obscure 18th-century composer later known as 'Il Divino Boemo', or the Divine Bohemian: Josef Myslivecek. He was a close friend of Mozart and a musical influence on him. He was one of the most celebrated opera composers in Italy in the 1770s.

Magdalena Kožená, Michel Swierczewski, Prague Philharmonia - Le belle immagini: Mozart, Gluck, Mysliveček (2001)

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Magdalena Kožená, Michel Swierczewski, Prague Philharmonia - Le belle immagini: Mozart, Gluck, Mysliveček (2001)

Magdalena Kožená, Michel Swierczewski, Prague Philharmonia - Le belle immagini: Mozart, Gluck, Mysliveček (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 292 Mb | Total time: 68:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | 471 334-2 | Recorded: 2001

Mozart and Gluck may make natural bedfellows for a program of arias, but Josef Myslivecek is not a name that would jump to most minds to join them. Czech mezzo Magdalena Kozená may be about to change that. In his time (1737-1781), the Czech composer was up there with the greats after his studies in Italy. He couldn't have a more persuasive champion than Kozená, who sets out to show why Myslivecek was counted among the country's 10 most successful composers. The young Kozená's mantelpiece is already crowded with competition trophies, including a 2001 Gramophone Award for her CD of eastern European love songs with Graham Johnson.

Magdalena Kožená - Enchantment (2006)

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Magdalena Kožená - Enchantment (2006)

Magdalena Kožená - Enchantment (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 563 Mb | Total time: 60:19+76:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | 00289 477 6153 | Recorded: 1996-2003

If your ideal vocal recording places the performer next to your seat and your ideal vocal performance has the performer singing directly into your ear, this disc by mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozená will be just about ideal. No matter what the repertoire – and Kozená performs everything from Bach to Gounod to Shostakovich – and no matter what the context – and Kozená takes on everything from song to opera to oratorio – Kozená is right next to the listener, singing straight into his/her ear. Given her exceedingly warm tone, her extremely rich delivery, and her extraordinarily sibilant pronunciation, Kozená's intimate delivery may be too much for those with heart conditions or those all too easily affected by singers. But for those made of sterner stuff, Kozená's performances here will be the stuff dreams are made of.