J. G. Albrechtsberger - Music for Entertainment / Pál Németh flute - Members of Savaria Baroque Orchestra on period instruments/ Andrea Vigh harp / Hungaroton Classic Audio CD HCD 32647

UPC 5991813264725

MADE IN HUNGARY

HCD 31647

TOTAL TIME: 77:41

Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (3 February 1736 – 7 March 1809) was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist, and one of the teachers of Ludwig van Beethoven. He was friendly with Haydn and Mozart.

Possibly the most valuable service he rendered to music was in his theoretical works. In 1790 he published at Leipzig a treatise on composition, of which a third edition appeared in 1821. A collection of his writings on harmony, in three volumes, was published under the care of his pupil Ignaz von Seyfried (1776–1841) in 1826. An English version of this was published by Novello in 1855. His compositional style derives from the counterpoint of Johann Joseph Fux, who was Kapellmeister at St Stephen's Cathedral from 1713 to 1741; Albrechtsberger later held the same position. 

Pál Németh graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music (Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Főiskola) as a flutist in 1972 and as a conductor in 1975.

As one of the pioneers of the early music scene in Hungary ha has founded several early music ensembles, for example Szombathely Early Music Ensemble (Szombathelyi Régizene Együttes, 1978) , Capella Savaria (1981) , and today Savaria Chamber Opera (1993) , the Central European Baroque Orchestra (Közép-Európai Barokk Zenekar, 1998) and the Savaria Baroque Orchestra (Savaria Barokk Zenekar, 1999), conductor , founder of Le Berger Fortuné, art director of the Central European Early Music Festival (Közép-Európai Régizenei Fesztivál), and permanent conductor of the Mi-To (Milano-Torino) Festival. So far, he has made more than 120 CD and DVD recordings, five of them voted “Record of the Year.” He can boast guest appearances in almost all European countries, as well as North and South America, and Israel.

Savaria Baroque Orchestra was founded by flutist-conductor, Pál Németh. It was created with the aim of rediscovering and presenting 17th and 18th century musical rarities based on documents of and played on instruments of the period through concerts, operas, CD-, radio and TV productions. The string section plays on genuine 18th century instruments while the wind instruments are faithful replicas of originals. Besides the major trends (Italian, French, German and English) of the period the ensemble strives to reintroduce valuable pieces of the Hungarian musical past. The repertoire consists of works of the most diverse musical genres and compositions from solo, chamber, and orchestral works to operas as well as oratorios from the early baroque to classical, from Monteverdi to Mozart. CD recordings include, among others, the works of Boismortier, Galuppi, Albinoni, A. Scarlatti, Vivaldi, M. Haydn, and Charpentier. Savaria Baroque Orchestra has recorded for Hungarian record label Hungaroton, as well as the Hungarian, the Swiss, the French, the Slovak and the Spanish national radios, and the Hungarian National Television. They have performed in concert halls in Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, France, England, Croatia, Romania, and Slovakia.

Tracklist:

 Divertimento a 4 No. 2 in C Major « |. Allegro molto
 Divertimento a 4 No. 2 in C Major ¢ Il. Menuetto
 Divertimento a 4 No. 2 in C Major « Ill. Andante ma non molto
 Divertimento a 4 No. 2 in C Major « IV. Menuetto: Vivace
 Divertimento a 4 No. 2 in C Major « V. Finale: Allegro
 Partita No. 2 in C Major + |. Moderato
 Partita No. 2 in C Major ° Il. Menuetto
 Partita No. 2 in C Major ° Ill. Adagio
 Partita No. 2 in C Major ¢ IV. Presto
 Notturno a 4 > I. Allegro moderato
 Notturno a 4 ¢ Il. Adagio un poco
 Notturno a 4 ° Ill. Menuetto
 Notturno a 4 + IV. Rondo
 Divertimento a 4 No. | in G Major * |. Andante
 Divertimento a 4 No. | in G Major ° Il. Menuetto: Vivace
 Divertimento a 4 No. | in G Major * Ill. Adagio
 Divertimento a 4 No. | in G Major + IV. Menuetto
 Divertimento a 4 No. | in G Major * V. Finale: Presto
 Partita in D Major + I. Adagio
 Partita in D Major ¢ Il. Menuetto
 Partita in D Major ¢ Ill. Finale: Allegro assai
 Quintetto ° |. Allegretto
 Quintetto ° Il. Menutto: Moderato
 Quintetto ° Ill. Adagio
 Quintetto + IV. Menuetto: Vivace
 Quintetto * V. Finale: Allegro