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Knecht - Le Portrait musical de la Nature / Philidor - Overtures | Naxos 8573066

Knecht - Le Portrait musical de la Nature / Philidor - Overtures

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8573066

Barcode: 0747313306671

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 3rd March 2014

Contents

Artists

Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino
Prague Sinfonia Orchestra

Conductor

Christian Benda

Works

Knecht, Justin Heinrich

Le Portrait musical de la Nature 'Grande Symphonie'

Philidor, Francois-Andre Danican

Le Jardinier et son Seigneur
» Overture
Le Marechal-Ferrant
» Overture
Le Sorcier
» Overture
Tom Jones
» Overture

Artists

Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino
Prague Sinfonia Orchestra

Conductor

Christian Benda

About

Though he wrote a great deal of church music, and also composed for the theatre, Justin Heinrich Knecht is best remembered for his Grande Simphonie ‘Le Portrait musical de la Nature’. Elegantly scored and completed in 1785, the depiction of nature in this eventful five-movement symphonic work predates Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony by almost a quarter of a century.

Knecht’s older French contemporary Philidor was the leading chess player of his time, in addition to being a popular stage composer, whose overtures reveal the influence of the Italian school in their sparkling drama.

Contents:
Justin Heinrich Knecht
- Le Portrait musical de la Nature
Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino / Christian Benda

François-André Danican Philidor
- Overtures: Le Jardinier et Son Seigneur / Le Sorcier / Tom Jones / Le Maréchal-Ferrant
Prague Sinfonia Orchestra / Christian Benda

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