dilluns, 18 de març del 2024

GRENSER, Johan Fredrik (1758-1795) - Sinfonia alla Posta

Franz de Paula Ferg (1689-1740) - An elegant hunting party capturing a stag and boar


Johan Fredrik Grenser (1758-1795) - Sinfonia (Es-Dur) alla Posta
Performers: Kungliga Operаns Orkester; Philip Brunеllе (conductor)

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German composer active in Sweden. He was born in Dresden and it's uncertain if he was related with the Gresner family of wind instrument makers and musicians established there. Almost nothing is known about his youth until he was appointed as a member (first oboist and later flautist) of the Royal Court Orchestra in Stockholm, a post he held the rest of his short life. As a composer, his output came to light in the 1780’s and 1790’s and were intended for various performers, among those his colleagues in the court orchestra. He was very appreciated and some of his works were published by Hummel printers in Amsterdam. Among his compositions, most of them lost, he wrote 4 ballets (Mölnarebalett, Pantomime för herr Marcadet, Slädpartiet, incidental ballet music in Vogler’s Gustaf Adolf och Ebba Brahe), orchestral works (4 sinfonias, 1 overture, 2 solo concertos, 2 arias with orchestra (Ah se t’adoro, Med din sång du redan funnit seger i min ömma själ), chamber music (trios, duets), works for wind ensemble (14 partitas, 2 arrangements) and piano pieces.

diumenge, 17 de març del 2024

MASCHEK, Vincens (1790-c.1870) - Missa Solemnis in C (1853)

Johann Josef Schindler (1777-1836) - Feierlicher Einzug Seiner Majestät Franz I. in seine Residenzstadt Wien


Vincens Maschek (1790-c.1870) - Missa Solemnis in C (1853)
Performers: Cecilia Gеréd (Sopran); Beate Wintеr (Alto); Wilfried Mіchl Jr. (Tenor); Wilfried Mіchl (Bariton);
Kirchenchor & Bаnаter Chor St. Pius, München; Capella Bаvаrica; Franz Mеtz (conductor)
Further info: Missa Solemnis

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Bohemian composer, teacher, bandmaster and Regenschori. He was born into a family of musicians who moved from Bohemia to Banat. The foremost of them were Vinzenz Maschek (1755-1831) and Pavel Maschek (1761-1826) who achieved great success in Vienna with ballets and Singspiele. Vinzenz Maschek was active in Bela Crkva (Romania) but almost nothing is known about his career. Only a post is documented as singing teacher and organist at the Israelite synagogue in Temesvàr. As a composer, he mainly wrote sacred music which includes masses, offertories, graduals, hymns and the waltz "Carnevall's Memories" composed for "entire orchestra" and "dedicated to Kapellmeister Johann Strauss with respect". 

divendres, 15 de març del 2024

GABLER, Christoph August (1767-1839) - Sonate a quatre mains

Nicolaes Muys (1740-1808) - De belachelijke jonker (1777)


Christoph August Gabler (1767-1839) - Sonate (F-Dur) a quatre mains Pour le Clavecin ou Forte Piano, Op.22
Performers: Alexander Bаkhchiev (piano); Elena Sοrοkina (piano)
Further info: Sonatas F major

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German pianist, teacher and composer. Son of a clergyman, he initially studied theology at Leipzig. Then his trace was lost until 1800, when he was appointed music teacher in Reval (now Tallin). Also there he was active as a pianist receiving notable fame as instrumentist. He remained there until 1836, a year he settled in Saint Petersburg for the rest of his life. As a composer, he wrote, among others, keyboard sonatas (Opp.19, 22, 26, 46), dozens of waltzes, variations and polonaises as well as several Lieds, partsongs and masonic music.

dimecres, 13 de març del 2024

BLAVET, Michel (1700-1768) - Concerto à 4 parties

Henri Millot (c.1699-1756) - Portrait présumé de Michel Blavet (1700-1768)


Michel Blavet (1700-1768) - Concerto (en la mineur) à 4 parties
Performers: Alexis Kοssеnkο (flute); Les Ambаssаdeurs

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French flautist, teacher and composer. The son of Jean-Baptiste Blavet, a turner, and Oudette Lyard, he was self-taught as a musician, mastering both bassoon and flute. In 1718, he married Anne-Marguerite Ligier with whom he had two daughters and two sons, both of whom became priests and one of whom, Jean-Louis Blavet, was the author of five books and a number of translations. In 1723, he settled in Paris under the protection of Duke Charles-Eugene Levis. In 1726 he made his debut at the Concert Spirituel, remaining as its most celebrated artist for some 25 years. On 1 October 1728 Louis XV granted to Blavet, ‘musicien ordinaire de notre très cher cousin le prince de Carignan’, a privilège général for six years to publish ‘plusieurs sonates pour la flûte traversière’, and op.1 was issued immediately, dedicated to Carignan. By 1731 Blavet had transferred his allegiance to the Count of Clermont, with whom he maintained ties for the rest of his life. He was acknowledged throughout Europe as the foremost flute virtuoso of his time and he was praised by composers such as Telemann, Marpurg or Quantz. It is likely that many of Leclair’s nine flute sonatas and his flute concerto were written for Blavet, for the two often performed together. As a teacher, his most brilliant flute pupils were the composer and publisher Pierre-Evard Taillart and the teacher and composer Félix Rault, who succeeded Blavet at court, the Opéra and the Concert Spirituel.

dilluns, 11 de març del 2024

SCHIASSI, Gaetano Maria (1698-c.1754) - Pastorale per il SSmo Natale

Ignatius van der Beken (1689-1774) - A musical group


Gaetano Maria Schiassi (1698-c.1754) - (Concerto in Re maggiore) Pastorale per il SSmo Natale, Op.1 (1737)
Performers: Collegium Mаriаnum; Jana Sеmеrádová (conductor)

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Italian singer and composer. Son of Carl Antonio Schiassi and Catterina Minghetti, he was a member of the Accademia Filarmonica as a suonatore, and a violinist among the virtuosos at the ducal court of Alderano Cybo Malaspina, to whom he dedicated his Trattenimenti per camera in 1724. About three years later he was employed by the Landgrave of Darmstadt. From at least the end of 1734 he lived in Lisbon, where he served in the royal chapel and founded the Academia da Trindade. His letters from Lisbon to Padre Martini from 1735 to 1753 reveal his activities there as composer, teacher and singer. He was asked to compose oratorios based on texts by Metastasio, for which he enlisted Martini’s help in supplying fugues for the choruses. The letters also reveal several insights into performing practice and taste in 18th-century Lisbon, where the king refused to allow women to take roles in operas and prohibited all kinds of entertainment during his illness except for oratorios and church festivals. Schiassi's works include sonatas, concertos, sinfonias and dances. His vocal music, other than the operas and oratorios, were most often set as pastorales.