Symphonies, Op. 4 Nos- 4-6 & Pandore (Excerpts)

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Label
CPO
Release Date
July 17, 2026
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Ignaz Beck
    • PERFORMER
      La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 17, 2026
    • UPC
      761203578627
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555786-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro maestoso

      Composer: Franz Ignaz Beck

      Ensemble: La Stagione Frankfurt

      Conductor: Michael Schneider

    2. II. Andante

      Composer: Franz Ignaz Beck

      Ensemble: La Stagione Frankfurt

      Conductor: Michael Schneider

    3. III. Presto

      Composer: Franz Ignaz Beck

      Ensemble: La Stagione Frankfurt

      Conductor: Michael Schneider

    4. I. Allegro con brio

      Composer: Franz Ignaz Beck

      Ensemble: La Stagione Frankfurt

      Conductor: Michael Schneider

    5. II. Largo con sordini

      Composer: Franz Ignaz Beck

      Ensemble: La Stagione Frankfurt

      Conductor: Michael Schneider

    6. III. Minuetto I-II

      Composer: Franz Ignaz Beck

      Ensemble: La Stagione Frankfurt

      Conductor: Michael Schneider

    7. IV. Presto

      Composer: Franz Ignaz Beck

      Ensemble: La Stagione Frankfurt

      Conductor: Michael Schneider

    8. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Franz Ignaz Beck

      Ensemble: La Stagione Frankfurt

      Conductor: Michael Schneider

    9. II. Adagio

      Composer: Franz Ignaz Beck

      Ensemble: La Stagione Frankfurt

      Conductor: Michael Schneider

    10. III. Minuetto

      Composer: Franz Ignaz Beck

      Ensemble: La Stagione Frankfurt

      Conductor: Michael Schneider

    11. IV. Presto

      Composer: Franz Ignaz Beck

      Ensemble: La Stagione Frankfurt

      Conductor: Michael Schneider

    12. Overture: Largo - Allegro risoluto

      Composer: Franz Ignaz Beck

      Ensemble: La Stagione Frankfurt

      Conductor: Michael Schneider

    13. No. 7. Poco adagio

      Composer: Franz Ignaz Beck

      Ensemble: La Stagione Frankfurt

      Conductor: Michael Schneider

    14. No. 15. Andantino

      Composer: Franz Ignaz Beck

      Ensemble: La Stagione Frankfurt

      Conductor: Michael Schneider

    15. No. 16. Andantino

      Composer: Franz Ignaz Beck

      Ensemble: La Stagione Frankfurt

      Conductor: Michael Schneider


Franz Ignaz Beck was a "Mannheim pupil" from the very beginning. The son of the court oboist Franz Aloys Beck, he was taught by other court musicians after his father's early death before studying in Venice with Baldassare Galuppi and ultimately making his way via Naples to France. He was twenty-three when three of his symphonies won acclaim in Paris; yet he was soon drawn onward-to Marseille and then to Bordeaux, where, until 1798 (for more than thirty-five years), he served as Maître de Musique, overseeing operas and concerts as well as the performance of both his own works and those of others. The six symphonies Op. 4 date from his early years on the Garonne and are now presented complete. They represent Beck's final contributions to the genre in which he undertook bold yet successful experiments-stormy and urgent, filled with striking turns that electrified audiences and explain why he was sometimes hailed as the "Berlioz of the eighteenth century." The music from the melodrama Pandora, composed some twenty years later, forms an illuminating counterpoint.