Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice & Marek Štilec – Fučík: Dances & Marches (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:37 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
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Julius Fucik studied composition under Dvorak at the Prague Conservatory but was soon to emerge as one of the great ‘march kings’ of his time. He gained worldwide fame for his immortal Entry of the Gladiators, but after the composer’s death in 1916 his music collection was acrimoniously broken up by his family, with many scores subsequently lost. Half the contents of this album come from handwritten manuscripts preserved in Prague that have no known printed parts. Painstaking editorial work has been carried out allowing us to hear the full range of Fucik’s works in these premiere recordings.
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Petr Nouzovský, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Stanislav Vavřinek – Dvořák: Cello Concerto, Silent Woods, Serenade (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:14:26 minutes | 699 MB | Genre: Classical
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Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904) was a great synthesist, ingeniously combining arguably incongruent strains: folk music (Czech as well as American) with refined classical forms, romantic extroversion with instrumental austerity and national Czech character with worldwide appeal. The three compositions on this album were all created at turning points in Dvořák’s life, when radical changes in his situation impacted his creative career.
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Petra Žďárská, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Michael Halász – Fisher: Symphonies Nos. 1-6 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:23 minutes | 1,86 GB | Genre: Classical
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Described as having “natural genius”, John Abraham Fisher was a significant figure in London during the second half of the 18th century. A virtuoso violinist, he also wrote admired stage works for the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. His orchestral works are largely forgotten today, but his symphonies display a surprising awareness of contemporary continental trends in their use of dynamic variations, revealing the influence of the Mannheim School. Possessing a richness of colour, contrast and surprise, these symphonies typify Fisher’s expanding Classical style.
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Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice – E. Strauss: A Centenary Celebration, Vol. 3 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:27:54 minutes | 1,51 GB | Genre: Classical
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Though he is much less well remembered than his more famous brothers, Johann II and Josef, Eduard Strauss was the master of the quick polka and the galop with a succession of distinctive and beguiling melodies and a genius for orchestration. This latest release continues the rediscovery of his music with a succession of pieces, all of which are receiving their first commercial recordings. His music was performed at some of Vienna’s most glittering balls and carnival festivities with Eduard offering such à la mode pieces as the Electric Lights waltz and the ingenious equine polka, Leaps of Pegasus.
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Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice – Dvorak: 2 Serenades (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:44 minutes | 559 MB | Genre: Classical
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New Czech recordings of perennially popular serenades from the pen of Dvořák at a turning point in his career, full of freshness, Bohemian charm and flowing melodies.
The Serenades for Strings and Winds never get old, and never lose their appeal, especially in the hands of musicians who feel this music in their bones. The opening of the Serenade for Strings issues the warmest welcome to a world poised between the 18th and 19th centuries, looking back in terms of its reassuring character as music for nocturnal entertainment, yet also unmistakably belonging to the Czech composer’s own place and time – Prague, 1875 – with its Bohemian turn of harmony and yearning cantabile.
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Markéta Čepická, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice & Dario Salvi – Auber: Overtures, Vol. 2 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:13 minutes | 1,98 GB | Genre: Classical
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The second volume in this series continues to explore little-known examples of Auber’s elegant and refined operatic music. Julie was his first stage work, its fantasia-like beauty foreshadowing the operas, opéras-comiques and lyric dramas to come. Striking melodies and haunting episodes abound in these overtures and entr’actes, and there is restrained yet fragrant Iberian colour in the overture to Léocadie. The Violin Concerto is lightly scored and gentle, with a tarantella-like finale full of folk vitality.
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Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Dario Salvi – Marschner: Overtures & Stage Music, Vol. 1 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:34 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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Heinrich Marschner, the leading German composer of Romantic opera between Weber and Wagner, was a progressive innovator, bringing to his music a new dimension – the supernatural anti-hero enmeshed in horror, such as the protagonist of Der Vampyr(1828). Before his psychological operas, however, Marschner composed a series of overtures and stage works exploring more conventional material. These have long been overlooked. In this first volume Schön Ella represents Marschner’s mastery of form, skilful orchestration and melodic gifts, while the excerpts from Ali Baba reveal his flair for theatrical concision and mood setting.
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Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice & Michael Halász – Cimarosa: Overtures, Vol. 7 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:47 minutes | 942 MB | Genre: Classical
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Domenico Cimarosa was a prolific composer of church and instrumental music, but his reputation rests principally on his operas. During the second half of the 18th century, and until the arrival of Rossini, he was the most successful and performed operatic composer in Europe, and one of the last exponents of the Neapolitan School. His bracing and vivacious overtures in this final volume include the hugely popular Il convito (‘The Banquet’), a triumph in Venice and Florence, as well as some examples of his expressively moving overtures for oratorios.
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Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Patrick Gallois – Cimarosa: Overtures, Vol. 6 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:41 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
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Domenico Cimarosa’s operas were remarkably successful, being staged and re-staged in opera houses all over Europe. Success in his home town of Naples led to court appointments and royal commissions, including his best-known work Il matrimonio segreto (The Secret Marriage) composed for Austrian emperor Leopold II. Other hits include L’impegno superato (‘The Broken Engagement’), an instant success and soon to become one of the most frequently performed of Cimarosa’s comic works, and Penelope that was produced as far away as London in 1817. The Cantata per Ferdinando IV was, however, written as an act of repentance, Cimarosa having made the mistake of backing the failed republican government in 1799.
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Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice & Dario Salvi – Auber: Overtures & Other Works (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:49 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
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Daniel-François-Esprit Auber’s music radiates both his amiable personality and the Parisian elegance of his times. The huge success of his operas resulted in a popularity for these overtures that rivalled that of Rossini, who was an early influence. Auber’s brilliant and energetic style infuses tales of romance both rustic and aristocratic, with moods ranging from dramatic heroism to dashing ballroom dances—all portrayed with the signature charm that made him a standard-bearer of musical stylishness and good taste. Auber’s opera La Sirène can be found on Naxos 8.660436. This is the first volume of a project to record all the overtures to his 31 opéras-comiques, seven opéras, three drames lyriques and seven other stage works.
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Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice & Michael Halász – Saint-Georges: Orchestral Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:53 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
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Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges was a brilliant swordsman, athlete, violin virtuoso and gifted composer, with a claim to being the most talented figure in an age of remarkable individuals. He was an early and important exponent of the hybrid symphonie concertante – a genre that draws on both the symphony and concerto traditions. This novel format was the ideal platform for expressive inventiveness, providing new textural possibilities through the addition of a second solo violin or viola. The Symphony in G major, which has all of the effervescence typical of Haydn, is an excellent example of the cosmopolitan French symphonic style.
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Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice & Marek Štilec – Wranitzky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:46 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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Paul Wranitzky moved to Vienna from his native Moravia at the age of 20, mixing with the likes of Haydn and Mozart. As the most important symphonist in Vienna in the late 1790s, his style influenced the early symphonies of Beethoven. The Symphony in D major “La Chasse” reflects the popularity of hunting music, and is heard here for the first time in its expanded version. The overtures to Mitgef”uhl and Die gute Mutter represent Wranitzky’s skill as a composer for the theatre, as does the masterfully scored Symphony in C major in which the composer repurposes some incidental and ballet music.
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Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Marek Stilec – Wranitzky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:50 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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Czech by birth, Paul Wranitzky settled in Vienna where he became highly respected as an orchestra leader and composer. Today overshadowed by his friends Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, Wranitzky was the most important symphonist in Vienna in the late 1790s. The colourful overture to Der Schreiner (“The Carpenter”) is followed by three contrasting symphonies. The dramatic La Tempesta contains elaborate storm effects, which predate Beethoven’s “Pastoral” by over a decade. The compact Symphony in A major represents Wranitzky’s early symphonic period of the mid-1780s while the Symphony in F major is notable for its catchy themes and masterful scoring.
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Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice & Marek Štilec – Wranitzky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:47 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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Czech-born Paul Wranitzky, a contemporary of Mozart, was the most important symphonist in Vienna at the turn of the 18th century. To mark the ascension to the throne of Franz II in 1792, Wranitzky wrote the grand Symphony in C major, a work of regal quality and festive exuberance. Wranitzky’s mature symphonic style is on display in the Symphony in B-flat major, with its expanded orchestral forces, contrasting textures and broad musical invention. Overtures from two operas offer a sampling of Wranitzky’s dramatic writing for the stage.
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