Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E major

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  • Recorded: 10th September 1983
  • Record Place: The Dvořák Hall of Rudolfinum, Prague
  • First Release: 1984
  • (P) 1984 SUPRAPHON a.s.
  • Genre: Orchestral

Artists

  • music by: Josef Mysliveček
  • violin: Shizuka Ishikawa
  • conductor: Libor Pešek
  • musical group: Dvořák Chamber Orchestra

Album

Shizuka Ishikawa, Dvořák Chamber Orchestra, Libor Pešek

Mysliveček: Complete Violin Concertos

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Catalogue Number: SU 4298-2
Published: 29th July 2022
Genre: Orchestral
Format: 2 CD
Shizuka Ishikawa - violin, Dvořák Chamber Orchestra, Libor Pešek - conductor

Shortly after Josef Mysliveček left Prague for Italy in 1763, he earned important standing there and soon was enjoying the first great successes of his operas. However, opera was far from his only area of interest. In Padua in the late 1760s, Mysliveček was still able to become familiar with the music of the violin virtuoso Giuseppe Tartini, and it was probably under its influence that Mysliveček successively produced six violin concertos of his own. There are certain unmistakable archaic elements in Mysliveček's concertos that show Tartini's influence. The period when they were composed overlaps with the period of Mysliveček's intensive contacts with the young Mozart, and many aspects of Mozart's violin concertos were clearly influenced by the music of his elder friend. The recording by Shizuka Ishikawa, a laureate of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels (1976) and of the Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna (1979), apparently represents the only complete set of Josef Mysliveček's violin concertos. The young Japanese virtuoso recorded them for Supraphon in 1983 and 1986 in the Dvořák Hall of Prague's Rudolfinum, and her artistic partner was none other than the conductor Libor Pešek.

"Il Boemo" and his violin concertos - released for the first time as a complete set

Reviews

“The outer movements are gracious and elegant, with lively cadenzas, but it’s the slow movements, or most of them, that hold the attention most consistently. Take the Larghetto from the D major Concerto, the opening tutti filled with pathos, Ishikawa’s first entry quite magical… Ishikawa’s beauty of tone, which is captured in extremely realistic mid-1980s sound, marks her version out as superior, certainly as more expressive.”
Gramophone, Awards Issue 2022

CD 1

Josef Mysliveček
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in C major
1. Allegro con spirito 06:53
2. Largo 02:52
3. Allegro 05:19
Josef Mysliveček
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E major
4. Allegro 09:19
5. Adagio 07:12
6. Presto 06:21
Josef Mysliveček
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in F major
7. Allegro 08:37
8. Andante cantabile 07:00
9. Allegro vivace 05:39
Josef Mysliveček
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A major
10. Moderato. Allegro 08:19
11. Adagio 05:12
12. Allegro 04:42

CD 2

Josef Mysliveček
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major
1. Allegro assai 08:41
2. Larghetto 07:34
3. Allegro 05:00
Josef Mysliveček
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in B flat major
4. Allegro 09:30
5. Adagio 06:43
6. Allegro 04:45
Josef Mysliveček
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G major, Pastoral
7. Allegro 07:16
8. Adagio 06:01
9. Tempo di minuetto 04:41
Josef Mysliveček
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major
10. Allegro moderato 08:29
11. Adagio. Grave 04:04
12. Presto 06:17

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