Composer: Josef Antonín Gurecký, Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský
Performer: Kinga Gáborjáni, Rodolfo Richter, David Wright, Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Catalogue: CHAN0816
Release: 2016
Size: 432 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Gurecký: Cello Concerto in A Minor, D-WD 573
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Presto
Gurecký: Cello Concerto in G Major, D-WD 574
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Largo
06. III. Vivace
Gurecký: Violin Concerto in D major
07. I. Allegro moderato
08. II. Grave
09. III. Vivace
10. Černohorský: Fugue in A minor
Gurecký: Cello Concerto in F Major, D-WD 577
11. I. Allegro
12. II. Largo
13. III. Allegro
Gurecký: Cello Concerto in D Major, D-WD 575
14. I. Allegro
15. II. Adagio
16. III. Vivace
The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen takes its name from the original ensemble that gave London’s first public concerts, from 1678, and which continued to meet well into the middle of the eighteenth century. The members of the group are leading figures on the period instrument scene in the UK and Europe, offering programmes that draw on recent and original research. They have been described on BBC Radio 3 as ‘purveyors of exhilarating and uplifting music’. The baroque ensemble here commits to record unjustly neglected concertos by Josef Guretzky, rich in Italian-influenced virtuosity and dynamism, yet highly innovative in the contrast of rhythms and forms. The album features the premiere recording of four of Guretzky’s nine cello concertos as well as Guretzky’s only surviving Violin Concerto. They are complemented by a contemporaneous keyboard fugue by another Czech master of the baroque era, Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský.