Beck, F I: Symphonies, Op. 2
Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra, Kevin Mallon
Memorable tunes are at a premium, though Beck lacks Haydn's gift for sustaining momentum over long stretches. But there's much to enjoy in the chamber-musical finesse of the opening Allegro...
Beck, F I: Symphonies, Op. 2
Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra, Kevin Mallon
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Memorable tunes are at a premium, though Beck lacks Haydn's gift for sustaining momentum over long stretches. But there's much to enjoy in the chamber-musical finesse of the opening Allegro...
About
Franz Ignaz Beck is increasingly acknowledged as one of the most forward looking and inventive of mid-eighteenth-century symphonists. A student of the celebrated Johann Stamitz, Beck was trained in Mannheim, a focal point of new approaches to orchestral writing. Although small in scale, his Op. 2 set includes some of the most striking and harmonically daring works of their kind from the period. Further Beck Symphonies may be heard on Naxos 8553790, 8554071, 8570799, 8573248 and 8573249.
Contents and tracklist
- Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra
- Kevin Mallon
- Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra
- Kevin Mallon
- Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra
- Kevin Mallon
- Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra
- Kevin Mallon
- Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra
- Kevin Mallon
- Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra
- Kevin Mallon
Awards and reviews
September 2015
Memorable tunes are at a premium, though Beck lacks Haydn's gift for sustaining momentum over long stretches. But there's much to enjoy in the chamber-musical finesse of the opening Allegro of the A major Symphony No. 3…and the fizzing first movement of No. 5…Mallon draws spruce, carefully shaped playing from his Canadian chamber forces, always alive to felicities in Beck's part-writing.
