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Myslivecek: Oboe Quintets, String Quartets
Supraphon

Myslivecek: Oboe Quintets, String Quartets

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Details

Composer
MYSLIVECEK, JOSEF
Artist
Hrabankova
Format
CD
Label
Supraphon
Released
Dec 18, 2020
Catalog #
SU4289-2
UPC
099925428921

About

Josef Myslivecek has most frequently been mentioned in connection with W. A. Mozart (who, for a certain time, viewed him as a model and inspiration) and is best known for his operas. At the age of 26, he left Prague for Italy, where four years later, in Naples, he celebrated his first triumph, with the opera Il Bellerofonte (1767). A prolific and gifted composer, Myslivecek also wrote instrumental music, including symphonies and chamber pieces. His first cycle of string quartets was published in Paris in 1768, the final one in Amsterdam, shortly after his death. These works were often performed in extended formations as symphonies. Myslivecek's quartets are characterized by wonderfully refined slow middle movements. Even more unique are his oboe quintets. For a long time, they were only known owing to Leopold Mozart's reference to them in a letter to his son Wolfgang, dated October 1777 - Myslivecek wanted Leopold Mozart to offer his quintets and other pieces to the Archbishop of Salzburg. Only due to the initiative of the performers featured on this album, primarily the oboist Michaela Hrabánková and Václav Dvorák, the first violinist of the Doležal Quartet, have the missing oboe parts for three of the six quintets been retrieved in private collections across Europe. The CD thus contains world premiere recordings of rediscovered Myslivecek works, whose significance is further enhanced by a stylistically sensitive interpretation. Our picture of "Il divino Boemo", whom the renowned music historian Charles Burney ranked alongside such masters as Hasse, Gluck and Haydn, is now more complete - and more beautiful. Previously unheard Myslivecek: newly rediscovered oboe quintets

Tracklist 18 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro 03:32
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    03:32
    Composer
    Josef Mysliveček
    Performer
    Michaela Hrabánková
    Ensemble
    Doležal Quartet
  2. 2 II. Larghetto 03:49
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Larghetto
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Josef Mysliveček
    Performer
    Michaela Hrabánková
    Ensemble
    Doležal Quartet
  3. 3 III. Tempo di minuetto 04:51
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Tempo di minuetto
    Duration
    04:51
    Composer
    Josef Mysliveček
    Performer
    Michaela Hrabánková
    Ensemble
    Doležal Quartet
  4. 4 I. Allegro 04:41
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    04:41
    Composer
    Josef Mysliveček
    Ensemble
    Doležal Quartet
  5. 5 II. Andante 06:51
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    06:51
    Composer
    Josef Mysliveček
    Ensemble
    Doležal Quartet
  6. 6 III. Presto assai 02:45
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Presto assai
    Duration
    02:45
    Composer
    Josef Mysliveček
    Ensemble
    Doležal Quartet
  7. 7 I. Allegro 02:01
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    Josef Mysliveček
    Ensemble
    Doležal Quartet
  8. 8 II. Larghetto 03:43
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Larghetto
    Duration
    03:43
    Composer
    Josef Mysliveček
    Ensemble
    Doležal Quartet
  9. 9 III. Presto 03:08
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Presto
    Duration
    03:08
    Composer
    Josef Mysliveček
    Ensemble
    Doležal Quartet
  10. 10 I. Vivace 03:55
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Vivace
    Duration
    03:55
    Composer
    Josef Mysliveček
    Performer
    Michaela Hrabánková
    Ensemble
    Doležal Quartet
  11. 11 II. Largo 04:44
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Largo
    Duration
    04:44
    Composer
    Josef Mysliveček
    Performer
    Michaela Hrabánková
    Ensemble
    Doležal Quartet
  12. 12 III. Rondo: Allegretto con espressione 03:19
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Rondo: Allegretto con espressione
    Duration
    03:19
    Composer
    Josef Mysliveček
    Performer
    Michaela Hrabánková
    Ensemble
    Doležal Quartet
  13. 13 I. Allegro con spirito 03:38
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. Allegro con spirito
    Duration
    03:38
    Composer
    Josef Mysliveček
    Ensemble
    Doležal Quartet
  14. 14 II. Minuetto 03:00
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. Minuetto
    Duration
    03:00
    Composer
    Josef Mysliveček
    Ensemble
    Doležal Quartet
  15. 15 III. Presto assai 01:58
    Track
    15
    Title
    III. Presto assai
    Duration
    01:58
    Composer
    Josef Mysliveček
    Ensemble
    Doležal Quartet
  16. 16 I. Allegro 03:12
    Track
    16
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    03:12
    Composer
    Josef Mysliveček
    Performer
    Michaela Hrabánková
    Ensemble
    Doležal Quartet
  17. 17 II. Larghetto 03:10
    Track
    17
    Title
    II. Larghetto
    Duration
    03:10
    Composer
    Josef Mysliveček
    Performer
    Michaela Hrabánková
    Ensemble
    Doležal Quartet
  18. 18 III. Presto 02:03
    Track
    18
    Title
    III. Presto
    Duration
    02:03
    Composer
    Josef Mysliveček
    Performer
    Michaela Hrabánková
    Ensemble
    Doležal Quartet