Collegium Marianum, Jana Semerádová - Jiránek: Concertos & Sinfonias (Music from Eighteenth-Century Prague) (2010)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 64:23 | 402 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Supraphon | Catalog: SU 4039-2
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 64:23 | 402 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Supraphon | Catalog: SU 4039-2
Ever newer chapters from the history of the bountiful musical life of Baroque Prague are still being discovered today. Until recently, František Jiránek, a composer and violinist of the Prague-based Count Morzin's chapel, had only been known to a select few. Now, for the first time, all lovers of old music are afforded the opportunity to listen to an exquisite collection of his virtuoso concertos. At first hearing, we can recognise inspiration by Vivaldi (combined with distinct elements of Czech musicality) - after all, Jiránek was sent by his employer to study in Venice, where most likely Antonio Vivaldi himself, at the time Morzin's "maestro di musica in Italia", was his teacher.