The world may not have been clamoring for a complete recording of the 11 extant symphonies of Leopold Ko?eluch, but this one, part of a Naxos series devoted to Ko?eluch, and of a larger series called "Czech masters in Vienna," is useful in establishing the music that Haydn and Mozart (whom Ko?eluch succeeded at the Viennese court) would have heard, and heard often. Ko?eluch was greatly admired in the 1780s when these four symphonies were written, and his work doesn't have a quality of coming from a peripheral place: it's ...
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The world may not have been clamoring for a complete recording of the 11 extant symphonies of Leopold Ko?eluch, but this one, part of a Naxos series devoted to Ko?eluch, and of a larger series called "Czech masters in Vienna," is useful in establishing the music that Haydn and Mozart (whom Ko?eluch succeeded at the Viennese court) would have heard, and heard often. Ko?eluch was greatly admired in the 1780s when these four symphonies were written, and his work doesn't have a quality of coming from a peripheral place: it's quite cosmopolitan. Ko?eluch has several national flavors of symphony to choose from: the Sinfonia in A major, PosK 1:10, is subtitled " Ŕ la française " and draws on the same sources as Mozart's French-flavored works. The Sinfonia in B flat major, PosK 1:11 ("L'irrésolu"), does not quite live up to the boldness billed in the Naxos graphics but is a fine essay in the type of symphony informed by Italian opera. All are in the common four-movement form, with no slow introductions,...
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