Sinfonias from the Enlightenment by moderntimes

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Sinfonias from the Enlightenment

Format: CD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917219326
Catnr: CC 72193
Release date: 01 March 2008
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Label
Challenge Classics

UPC
0608917219326

Catalogue number
CC 72193

Release date
01 March 2008

" These appealing renditions appeal to novice and cognoscenti alike."

Fanfare Magazine, 06-7-2017

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The Age of Enlightenment was the epoch that Frederick II ruled over Prussia. This monarch was also musician and composer and gathered Germany’s musical elite at his court. In the second half of the 18th century out of the gallant and reason-driven ideas of the philosophical and literary Enlightenment emerged a movement of sensibility, known as ‘Sturm und Drang’ and this transition is most clearly marked by composers as C.Ph.E. Bach, the Graun and Benda bro’s and J.A.Hasse, all composers closely related to the Prussian court of Frederick, while in Vienna still was blowing a more traditional wind. Also the musically independent Joseph Haydn couldn’t avoid in some of his symphonies the influence of this new trend. Enlightened contemporaries considered all these musicians who dedicated their creativity to the new sound as the avant-garde. This CD actually includes the first recording ever of the symphonies by Hasse, Graun and Carl Philipp.

Eerste opnamen van symfonieën uit de eeuw van de Verlichting
Het kamerorkest Moderntimes_1800 speelt in Sinfonias from the Enlightenment muziek uit de 18e eeuw. Op dit album staan de allereerste opnamen van symfonieën van Johann Gottlieb Graun, Johann Adolph Hasse en de zonen van Bach: Wilhelm Friedemann en Carl Philipp Emanuel. Je zou kunnen zeggen de grondleggers van de symfonische stijl. Hun symfonieën hebben vanaf het ontstaan onder het stof gelegen, in het archief van de Berlijnse zangacademie, dat in 1999 herontdekt werd. Het energieke kamerorkest Moderntimes_1800 brengt deze pareltjes weer tot leven. Ook symfonieën van Joseph Haydn en Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart kregen een plek op dit album.

In de 18e eeuw, de tijd tussen Johann Sebastian Bach en de Weense klassieken én de eeuw van de Verlichting, regeerde Frederik II over Pruisen. Deze koning, die ook muzikant en componist was, verzamelde de muzikale elite van Duitsland aan zijn hof. Daar ontstond vanuit de Verlichting, de beweging ‘Sturm und Drang’. Het werd mode om gevoelens in de muziek tot uitdrukking te brengen. Het meest duidelijk is dit te horen in stukken van componisten als C.Ph.E. Bach, Graun en Hasse, die allen aan het Pruisische hof werkten. Terwijl in Wenen nog steeds een meer traditionele stijl de boventoon voerde, lieten ook de muzikaal onafhankelijke Haydn, en het enfant terrible van de toenmalige gevestigde orde Mozart, deze nieuwe trend in hun symfonieën horen. Een trend die toentertijd beschouwd werd als avant-garde.

Moderntimes_1800 is een jong Oostenrijks kamerorkest opgericht in 2003 door Ilia Korol en Julia Moretti. Zij stelden een ensemble samen met een jonge generatie musici. Deze musici zijn niet alleen bedreven in het bespelen van authentieke instrumenten, maar ook bekend met de speelwijze van historische en eigentijdse muziek. Het ensemble geeft regelmatig prestigieuze concerten zoals op de festivals van Wenen en Salzburg.

Bei den auf dieser CD eingespielten Sinfonien von Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Gottlieb Graun und Johann Adolph Hasse handelt es sich zum überwiegenden Teil um Erstaufnahmen. Seit ihrer Entstehungszeit haben sie im Archiv der Berliner Singakademie geschlummert, das 1999 in Kiev wiederentdeckt wurde. Dort stieß Ilia Korol im Sommer 2007auf diese kostbaren Kleinode. Inhalt: Hasse (1699-1783): Sinfonia D major / Graun (1702-1771): Sinfonia E flat major / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788): Sinfonia B flat major & Sinfonia E flat major / Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784): Sinfonia D major / Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Symphony no. 39 in g minor / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Symphony no. 29 in A major K 201

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Ilia Korol

Ilia Korol (Violin) is from Kiev. He studied the violin at the Moscow University of Music with Abraham Stern and Marina Iashvili and has lived in Austria since 1997. He became an Austrian citizen in 2001. He played with Musica Antiqua Köln and is the leader of the Bach Ensembles of Joshua Rifkin and of the Spanish baroque orchestra RCOC; he is moreover a member of the Ars Antiqua Austria and of the Clemencic Consort. Ilia Korol has made numerous CD recordings. Since 2008, Ilia Korol has been adjunct professor in the faculty of Early Music at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.

Ilia Korol (Violin) is from Kiev. He studied the violin at the Moscow University of Music with Abraham Stern and Marina Iashvili and has lived in Austria since 1997. He became an Austrian citizen in 2001. He played with Musica Antiqua Köln and is the leader of the Bach Ensembles of Joshua Rifkin and of the Spanish baroque orchestra RCOC; he is moreover a member of the Ars Antiqua Austria and of the Clemencic Consort. Ilia Korol has made numerous CD recordings. Since 2008, Ilia Korol has been adjunct professor in the faculty of Early Music at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.

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Moderntimes_1800

Moderntimes_1800 is a young Austrian chamber orchestra based in Tyrol comprising international specialists. It was founded in 2003 by Ilia Korol and Julia Moretti who set out to form an ensemble from a new generation of musicians, proficient both in historical performance and in the music of the 20th century. Availing itself of the instruments and the playing styles of the time in which a work was created, moderntimes_1800 is of the firm conviction that the musical language of an epoch can find most vivid expression by using the musical means of that particular period. Ilia Korol hails from Kiev, studied violin under Abraham Stern and Marina Iashvili at Moscow’s Music Academy and since 1997 has lived in Austria. In recognition of...

Moderntimes_1800 is a young Austrian chamber orchestra based in Tyrol comprising international specialists. It was founded in 2003 by Ilia Korol and Julia Moretti who set out to form an ensemble from a new generation of musicians, proficient both in historical performance and in the music of the 20th century.

Availing itself of the instruments and the playing styles of the time in which a work was created, moderntimes_1800 is of the firm conviction that the musical language of an epoch can find most vivid expression by using the musical means of that particular period.

Ilia Korol hails from Kiev, studied violin under Abraham Stern and Marina Iashvili at Moscow’s Music Academy and since 1997 has lived in Austria. In recognition of his artistic achievements he received Austrian citizenship in 2001.
He has performed as concertmaster of the Musica Antiqua Köln, the Bach Ensemble with Joshua Rifkin and the Spanish Baroque Orchestra RCOC and furthermore is member of the ensemble Ars Antiqua Austria and the Clemencic Consort. Ilia Korol has also featured on numerous CD recordings.
Natalia Grigorieva was born in Moscow in 1974 and studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Prof. Pavlova and Prof. Sobolev. Already after completing her studies Natalia Grigorieva was interested in historical performance practice and gave numerous concerts on 18th and 19th centuries original instruments or reconstructions of them.
Since 2000 Natalia Grigorieva has lived in Vienna and has taken Austrian citizenship. She trained as a designer and multi-media producer at the renowned SAE (School of Audio Engineering) in Vienna and has worked as a graphic artist and designer for numerous Austrian labels and artists.
Natalia Grigorieva has appeared as a soloist with the moderntimes_1800 orchestra in numerous concerts both in Austria and in other countries since 2003: for instance in the Wiener Festwochen, the Salzburg Festival, the RuhrTriennale 2005, the “Wege durch das Land” Festival, the Montreal Bach Festival and the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival.

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Julia Moretti (conductor)

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose actual name is Joannes Chrysotomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a composer, pianist, violinist and conductor from the classical period, born in Salzburg. Mozart was a child prodigy. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. Along with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, Mozart is considered to be one of the most influential composers of all of music's history. Within the classical tradition, he was able to develop new musical concepts which left an everlasting impression on all the composers that came after him. Together with Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven he is part of the First Viennese School. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position. From 1763 he traveled with his family through all of Europe for three years and from 1769 he traveled to Italy and France with his father Leopold after which he took residence in Paris. On July 3rd, 1778, his mother passed away and after a short stay in Munich with the Weber family, his father urged him to return to Salzburg, where he was once again hired by the Bishop. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death.

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

It can't be easy to have been a son of the great Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach was undoubtedly very strict, and if you'd have any composition ambitions, you would have to find a way to step out of the shadow of your father. Luckily, his sons had everything going for them considering their music. Whereas the traditional Baroque music of their father slowly went out of fashion, most of Bach's sons managed to follow the new trends of the early Classicism. In other words: relatively simple, melodic music which is not too heavy on the listener, yet still very passionate. Carl Philipp Emanuel, Bach's fifth son, became the most outstanding among his siblings. Like each of Bach's sons, he received a...

Carl Philipp Emanuel, Bach's fifth son, became the most outstanding among his siblings. Like each of Bach's sons, he received a solid education from his father, en Carl Philipp developed into a remarkably talented keyboardist. Moreover, he became a prolific composer and of all Bach's sons, he was able to came closest to the quality of his father's work, albeit in a completely different style.

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Johann Adolph Hasse

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was a German keyboardist and composer. He was the oldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. He worked in Dresden, Halle, Braunschweig, and finally Berlin. He was regarded as one of the greatest organist of his time and is renowned for his organ improvisations. In Halle, the Wilhelm-Friedemann-Bach-Haus is named after him; a museum dedicated to him and six other composers of his time, in a house where he used to live. Wilhelm Friedemann's music shows the same 'architectual' proficiency known from his father, particular in his counter point. Moreover, he was looking for new ways of expression, with many mood swings and changes in rhythm, Wilhelm Friedemann was clearly an exponent of a new literal and...

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Johann Gottlieb Braun

Joseph Haydn

(Franz) Joseph Haydn was a prolific Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio and his contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets 'Father of the Symphony' and 'Father of the String Quartet'. Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their remote estate. Until the later part of his life, this isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, 'forced to become original'. Yet his music circulated widely and for much of his career he was the most celebrated composer in Europe. He was a friend and mentor of Mozart,...

(Franz) Joseph Haydn was a prolific Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio and his contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet".
Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their remote estate. Until the later part of his life, this isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, "forced to become original". Yet his music circulated widely and for much of his career he was the most celebrated composer in Europe.
He was a friend and mentor of Mozart, a teacher of Beethoven, with whom he formed the First Viennese School. He was also the older brother of composer Michael Haydn.

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