Krommer: Symphonies No... - Klara Mach Jasencakova - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

Franz Krommer served the Habsburg emperors as court composer in Vienna, having succeeded his Czech compatriot, Leopold Koželuch. He excelled in a vast range of music, notably the string quartet and music for winds, but he also wrote eight published symphonies and a sequence of concertos. In the recordings heard here, conductor Marek Štilec uses corrected parts based on archival records. Both the First and Second Symphonies are fulsome and vigorous, with graceful trios and bustling energy, revealing an increasingly bold and adventurous language. The attractive Concertino is, in effect, a divertimento full of shifting moods.

Label: Naxos | Origin: Holland