Stamitz: Symphonies Classical Orchestral & Concertos CPO

Stamitz: Symphonies

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CX 5344

Stamitz: Symphonies

Label Catalogue Number:
555344-2

Running Time: 01:05:16

Release Date: August 2021
Originally recorded in 2020

Genre:
Classical
Orchestral & Concertos

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During his lifetime Carl Stamitz, the firstborn son of Johann Stamitz, the famous founder of the Mannheim School, became a violin and viola virtuoso and successful composer. In our Carl Stamitz Edition we are now releasing four more symphonies that were regarded as a practically ideal embodiment of sensibility because his “heart full of feeling left its imprint on his music.” Stamitz’s desire to discover and explore new paths in the composition of symphonies took him to the programmatic pastoral symphony “Le jour variable” (La promenade royale) designed in Versailles in the fall of 1772. What Stamitz presents to the ears in the way of previously “unheard-of” music would completely outshine even the programmatic pieces produced at the end of the nineteenth century. Many experts, including Hugo Riemann, were very much aware of the fact that this program symphony is a particularly interesting and remarkable composition.

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Reviews

“… Michael Alexander Willens conducts the Kölner Akademie with style and a good feel for character and pace…”

Lindsay Kemp – Gramophone magazine – February 2022

“A very attractive disc of rarely performed symphonies from the Mannheim School.”

Dave Billinge – MusicWeb-International.com – 17 January 2022

“For an overall impression of Stamitz’s style here, think of Haydn in one of his feistier moods. The real star of this album, though, is the Le jour variable Symphony, which is like an earthier forerunner of Beethoven’s Pastoral.” ****

Jeremy Pound – BBC Music magazine (Brief Notes Section) – January 2022

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