So often, 18th century composers are brought out of obscurity, added to the collections of fans and specialists, and greeted with one pleasant listen by everyone else. However, Naxos' Paul Wranitzky project, from the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice and conductor Marek ?tilec, is something else again; this third volume has hit the best-seller charts. There is plenty more music available by Wranitzky, who wrote 45 symphonies and conducted the first performance of the Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21, of ...
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So often, 18th century composers are brought out of obscurity, added to the collections of fans and specialists, and greeted with one pleasant listen by everyone else. However, Naxos' Paul Wranitzky project, from the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice and conductor Marek ?tilec, is something else again; this third volume has hit the best-seller charts. There is plenty more music available by Wranitzky, who wrote 45 symphonies and conducted the first performance of the Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21, of Beethoven, who was an admirer. Wranitzky was prolific and sometimes worked in a hurry; the Symphony in C major, Op. 33, No. 2, heard here was assembled from existing operatic interludes, but at his best, he lived up to the praise of the 19th century musicologist Fétis, who considered him equal to Haydn. Wranitzky had a talent for programmatic works, for merging their extramusical elements into the shapes of sonata form, and the Symphony in D major, Op. 25 ("La chasse"), is an excellent...
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