Composer: Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky
Performer: Ars Antiqua Austria
Conductor: Gunar Letzbor
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Pan Classics
Catalogue: PC10366
Release: 2016
Size: 334 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Intrada, XIV/124
02. Sonata á 7, IV/69
03. Sonata prima á 5, IV/70
Serenada
04. Ingressus
Serenada, XIV/98
05. I. Sarabanda
06. II. Gavotte
07. III. Minuett
08. IV. Gigue
09. Sonata secunda á 6, V/181
10. Offertur ad duos chorus, XIV/44
11. Sonata á 7, IV/157
12. Sonata paschalis, IV/25
13. Sonata natalis, IV/202
14. Sonata Sancti Spiritus, IV/40
Balletti á 5, XIV/180
15. I. Alla breve
16. II. Allemanda
17. III. Courante
18. IV. Sarabanda
19. V. Gigue
20. VI. Alla brev
21. Sonata venatoria, IV/199
22. Sonata á 6, IV/156
23. Sonata á 5, IV/224
24. Sonata laetitiae, IV/11
25. Sonata á 4 “Be mollis”, IV/43
Serenada, XIV/45
26. I. —
27. II. —
28. III. Sarabanda
29. IV. Presto
30. V. Conclusion
Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky was born in Moravia circa 1633 or 1639. Little is known of his musical education except that he studied in Opava at the Jesuit College (also attended by Heinrich Biber and others). He spent most of his life working as trumpeter and Kapellmeister for the Bishop Princes of Olmuz (res. in Kromeriz). Vejvanovsky was a colleague of Biber when the latter was himself briefly in the employ of Bishop Prince Karl Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn. The two remained in contact with each other throughout their lives and it is understood that they exchanged musical ideas and material with one another.
Much of the music presented here includes opulent writing for the trumpet. He wrote in a style similar to the Canzone da Sonar of the early Italians as well as mixing styles of the Viennese, Germans and French.