Conductor-less period ensemble Concerto Köln's Il divino boemo is one of the group's "truffle pig" projects, bringing its considerable artistry to bear on a composer whose reputation has been less fortunate than that of his contemporaneous peers. In this case, the truffle is Josef Myslivecek, the "divine Bohemian" who was a friend to the young Wolfgang Mozart, in his time popular for his operas and oratorios, but already considered passé by his early death in 1781. This is an appropriate follow up to Concerto Köln's ...
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Conductor-less period ensemble Concerto Köln's Il divino boemo is one of the group's "truffle pig" projects, bringing its considerable artistry to bear on a composer whose reputation has been less fortunate than that of his contemporaneous peers. In this case, the truffle is Josef Myslivecek, the "divine Bohemian" who was a friend to the young Wolfgang Mozart, in his time popular for his operas and oratorios, but already considered passé by his early death in 1781. This is an appropriate follow up to Concerto Köln's previous effort, the Archiv Produktion disc Mozart: Concerto Köln, which was one of the best orchestral albums of Mozart's music to appear in the "Mozart Year" of 2006.Concerto Köln's Il divino boemo consists of six overtures/symphonies and a sinfonia concertante, the last-named being the longest work at about 15 minutes; none of the overtures/symphonies exceed 10 minutes. Myslivecek's music is galant and fits comfortably into the milieu of the mid-eighteenth century. It demonstrates...
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Add this copy of Myslivecek: Symphonies to cart. $19.98, new condition, Sold by BMC1701 rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Norwalk, IA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Archiv Produktion.
