Hunting Music of Old Czech Masters

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Release Date: 16th Feb 2018
Catalogue No: SU42282
Label: Supraphon
Length: 56 minutes

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Jiří Družecký: Partita Berdlersgarn

Work length12:31

$2.40

$3.15

Collegium musicum Pragense
František Vajnar

I. Allegro

Track length5:14

$0.80

$1.05

II. Menuetto

Track length4:12

$0.80

$1.05

III. Allegro con variazioni

Track length3:05

$0.80

$1.05

Jan Nepomuk Vent: Partita in Dis

Work length16:31

$4.00

$5.25

Collegium musicum Pragense
František Vajnar

I. Presto

Track length2:47

$0.80

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II. Favoritto - Alternativo

Track length2:27

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III. Menuetto

Track length3:22

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$1.05

IV. Romance

Track length4:57

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V. Finale - Presto

Track length2:58

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Wranitzky, P: Symphony in D Major, Op. 25 'La chasse'

Work length27:53

$3.20

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Prague Symphony Orchestra
František Vajnar

I. Allegro maestoso

Track length9:12

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II. Menuetto

Track length4:41

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III. Adagio

Track length6:51

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IV. La Caccia

Track length7:09

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Hunting cannot be thought about in isolation from the sounds accompanying it – the barking of dogs, the shrieks of frightened quarry, the shots, and the sound of horns and trumpets. Signal instruments and the atmosphere of chase gave rise to the special genre of “hunting music”. The quintessential hunting-related instrument is the French horn, which became widely used in Bohemia after 1760, owing to Count Franz Anton von Sporck. Yet hunting music, for a variety of ensembles (including the wind Harmonie), was also played at feasts and other social events. Hunting-themed pieces - cassations, serenades, partitas (many of them termed caccia or la chasse) - indicated their connection with hunting by the selection of instruments, the typical harmonies and melodies, as well as by featuring onomatopoeic effects, such as the sounds of animals and birds, and sonic renditions of buoyant merry-making in the wake of the hunting expedition. The music featured on the present album was written by three Czech representatives of high Classicism. Jirí Družecký and Jan Nepomuk Vent composed numerous popular pieces for wind instruments. Pavel Vranický, a friend of Haydn and Beethoven, who both chose him to conduct their works, was a distinguished theatre figure in Vienna.

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