Giovanni Antonini, Kammerorchester Basel - Haydn 2032 No. 7: Gli Impresari (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 327 Mb | Total time: 73:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha | # ALPHA680 | Recorded: 2017
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 327 Mb | Total time: 73:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha | # ALPHA680 | Recorded: 2017
Under the title Gli impresari, The Impresarios – i.e. the directors of the theatre troupes that Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy engaged to perform in his opera houses – this CD gathers together some of the orchestral works by Joseph Haydn linked by their origin and their reception; they were originally conceived as theatre music, before their metamorphosis into symphonies (…)The period from 1772 onwards, when Karl Wahr was responsible for for the summer theatre programme at Esterháza, saw the peak of the multidisciplinary collaboration taking place between the court music directed by Haydn and companies engaged from outside. (…) At the end of 1775 and the beginning of 1776, while Joseph Haydn was occupied in transforming his music for Collé’s comedy into a symphony for concert performance, Karl Wahr was enjoying enormous success with his theatrical entertainments in the ballroom at the theatre in Salzburg.