Early Symphonies and Chamber Music

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JOSEPH SCHMITT
Early Symphonies and Chamber Music
The New Dutch Academy Chamber Soloists and Chamber Orchestra / Simon Murphy

[ Pentatone SACD / SACD ]

Release Date: Thursday 15 June 2006

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A fascinating new 18th century musical personality has emerged: Joseph Schmitt.

Hybrid/SACD - playable on all compact disc players
DSD recorded

A fascinating new 18th century musical personality has emerged: Joseph Schmitt.

Never heard of him? That's because until relatively recently many of his works were still being wrongly ascribed to Haydn.

This world premiere recording documents one of the most exciting discoveries in classical music in recent times. Displaying Schmitt working in both the symphonic and chamber mediums, this disc presents a musical portrait of this multifaceted 18th century German-Dutch master composer. In bringing alive his music, the disc aims to profile Schmitt's rich, cosmopolitan musical language and to illustrate how he creates his own personal language out of the myriad of international musical influences, musical styles and musical dialects presented to him by the creative whirlwind that was the 18th century European enlightenment.

Tracks:

Symphony in D major (Opus I no. 1)
Symphony in B flat major (Opus VI no. 2)
Symphony in G major first published (as Symfonie Periodique No 1)
Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello in E minor
(Opus III no. 3)
Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello in G major
(Opus III no. 6)
Symphony in E flat major “The Hurdy Gurdy” first published (as Symphonie Periodique No 11)