Composer: Josef Mysliveček
Performer: Shizuka Ishikawa
Orchestra: Dvořák Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Libor Pešek
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Supraphon
Catalogue: SU42982
Release: 2022
Size: 747 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in C-Sharp Major
01.I. Allegro con spirito
02.II. Largo
03.III. Allegro
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E-Sharp Major
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Adagio
06. III. Presto
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in F-Sharp Major
07. I. Allegro
08. II. Andante cantabile
09. III. Allegro vivace
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A-Sharp Major
10. I. Moderato. Allegro
11. II. Adagio
12. III. Allegro
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D-Sharp Major
13. I. Allegro assai
14. II. Larghetto
15. III. Allegro
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in B-Flat Major
16. I. Allegro
17. II. Adagio
18. III. Allegro
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Pastoral in G-Sharp Major
19. I. Allegro
20. II. Adagio
21. III. Tempo di minuetto
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D-Sharp Major
22. I. Allegro moderato
23. II. Adagio. Grave
24. III. Presto
“Il Boemo” and his violin concertos – released for the first time as a complete set.
Shortly after Josef Mysliveček left Prague for Italy in 1763, he earned important standing there and soon was enjoying the first great successes of his operas. However, opera was far from his only area of interest. In Padua in the late 1760s, Mysliveček was still able to become familiar with the music of the violin virtuoso Giuseppe Tartini, and it was probably under its influence that Mysliveček successively produced six violin concertos of his own. There are certain unmistakable archaic elements in Mysliveček’s concertos that show Tartini’s influence. The period when they were composed overlaps with the period of Mysliveček’s intensive contacts with the young Mozart, and many aspects of Mozart’s violin concertos were clearly influenced by the music of his elder friend.
The recording by Shizuka Ishikawa, a laureate of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels (1976) and of the Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna (1979), apparently represents the only complete set of Josef Mysliveček’s violin concertos. The young Japanese virtuoso recorded them for Supraphon in 1983 and 1986 in the Dvořák Hall of Prague’s Rudolfinum, and her artistic partner was none other than the conductor Libor Pešek.