VORISEK: Symphony, Six Impromptus / Joeres

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Jan Vaclav Vorisek (1791-1825)
Symphony Op. 24 in D major
Westdeutsche Sinfonia
Dirk Joeres, director
Six Impromptus, Op. 7
Dirk Joeres, piano

VORISEK: Symphony, Six Impromptus / Joeres, Music, Jan Vaclav Vorisek
Vorisek: Symphony, Six Impromptus
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    		Vorisek: Symphony, Six Impromptus
    Dirk Joeres
    Manufacturer: Regis Records/Premiere
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD
    ASIN: B00005V435
    Release Date: 2007-05-29
    VORISEK: Symphony, Six Impromptus / Joeres
    Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
    • Dreadful
    • The genesis of the Impromptu
    		 VORISEK: Symphony, Six Impromptus / Joeres

    Manufacturer: Forum Regis
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0000V86Q4
    Release Date: 2003-10-13

    Album Description

    Jan Vaclav Vorisek (1791-1825)
    Symphony Op. 24 in D major
    Westdeutsche Sinfonia
    Dirk Joeres, director
    Six Impromptus, Op. 7
    Dirk Joeres, piano

    Customer Reviews:

    1 out of 5 stars Dreadful.......2004-12-23

    Just attempting to listen to this massively dreadful excuse for music makes my head hurt. Since I am equipped with two working ears and human hearing I am amazed that anyone could sit through it.

    4 out of 5 stars The genesis of the Impromptu.......2004-11-21

    If you do not yet know the music of Vorisek, it is worth getting to know. Most well-educated musicians likely have heard of Vorisek, as he is the first known composer to write piano pieces with this title (in 1822). Both Schubert & Beethoven were reasonably familiar with Vorisek (both as a composer & a conducter), and Schubert would shortly take the Impromptu form to new artistic heights.

    Vorisek probably would be better known --- he certainly had the musical talent to have been a great composer --- had he not been killed by tuberculosis at age 34. Because he was not a youthful genius like Mozart & Schubert, his musical output is considerably smaller & represents an artist on his way to maturity. As it is, his single Symphony & his Impromptus give us hints of what have been had he lived.

    The Symphony is well-performed here by the Westdeutsche Sinfonia, an ensemble of which I must confess I have never heard. Its conducter, Dirk Joeres, is the pianist on the Impromptus and gives an decent if not particularly riveting interpretation. I have a recording of a couple of the Impromptus performed by the stellar Czech pianist Antonin Kubalek, and Joeres does not approach the Kubalek's interpretive depth. However, to my knowledge Kubalek has not recorded the complete set of Impromptus, so Joeres' is the best recording of the set of which I know.

    Track Listings:

    1. A Classical Guitar Christmas
    2. Alan Hovhaness: Violin|Viola and Keyboard Works / Christina Fong, Arved Ashby
    3. Art of the Fugue Bwv 1080
    4. Ave Gracia Plena: Music In Honor of the Virgin Mary
    5. Bach: 6 Brandenburg Concertos
    6. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 5
    7. Bach - Mass in b minor / Heaston · Hanslowe · Rabiner · M. Tucker · N. Berg · Boston Baroque · Pearlman
    8. Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for Violin
    9. Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, etc. [Import]
    10. Beethoven: Missa Solemnis [Import]

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