Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. 1. Vivace
2. 2. Adagio
3. 3. Un poco Allegro
4. 4. Allegro
5. 1. Vivace
6. 2. Andante
7. 3. Presto
8. 4. Alla breve
9. 5. Allegro
10. 1. Andante e staccato
11. 2. Vivace
12. 3. Largo
13. 4. Allegro - 2/4
14. 1. Vivace
15. 2. Largo
16. 3. Allegro
17. 1. Allegro molto
18. 2. Adagio
19. 3. Allegro
20. 1. Allegro
21. 2. Larghetto
22. 3. Allegro
23. 4. Entr�e
24. 5. Loure. Cantabile
25. 6. Tempo di Menuet - Air italienne

Disc 2:

1. 1. Allegro
2. 2. Andante pi� tosto un poco Allegro
3. 3. Presto
4. 1. Allegro
5. 2. Pastorell
6. 3. Adagio
7. 4. Allegro assai
8. 1. Vivace
9. 2. Arioso
10. 3. Allegro
11. 1. Allegro
12. 2. Andante
13. 3. [Allegro]
14. 1. Allegro
15. 2. Largo e staccato
16. 3. Grave
17. 4. Allegro
18. 1. Vivace
19. 2. Andante e staccato
20. 3. Vivace
21. 1. Allegro
22. 2. Adagio e staccato
23. 3. Allegro

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55832 in Music
• Released on: 1993-09-14
• Number of discs: 2

Amazon.com
Heinichen's Dresden Concertos created quite a stir when they were first released a couple of years ago, and for good reason. This is vital, colorful music scored for a large and varied ensemble. Like most composers of his day, Heinichen spent the majority of his compositional talent in the service of vocal music, for either the opera house or church. These pieces represent his only surviving set of concertos, and anyone who enjoys, for example, Bach's Brandenburg Concertos or the orchestral works of Zelenka will certainly want to hear these as well. These performances are simply the last word in style and virtuosity. --David Hurwitz

Customer Reviews

Excellent piece of work
I love this wonderfull cd! If you like baroque horn music, and especially Quantz and Telemann, you will love this CD. The parts for the French Horn are well played for being played on authentic instruments. This is a must for the Baroque listener

Sounds as fresh as ever.
It's a few years since this set won the Gramophone Award, but hearing it again very recently, it still provides a thrilling listening experience.
I'm not normally a lover of prominent brass instruments in early music where the sonorities are often too lean and bright for my taste. Well, there's plenty of brightness here, but it all comes from the sparkle and energy of an orchestra at the very top of its form.
I wouldn't say this is a set to listen to at one sitting. Better to pick and choose two or three concertos at a time. Or better still, go for the excitement of progamming just the allegros and hold on to your seat as the rhythms and stratospheric brass catapult you into the midst of the hunt.
Great stuff.

HIP and Alive
This is a superb recording. The performances are vibrant and the quality of the recording is stunning. There is a warmth and fullness that is often missing in recordings of period instruments. The ensemble sounds HUGE. I particularly like the second movement of the Concerto in F (S. 234). Oboes are used instead of strings as the accompaniment to the flute solo.

A must have for any lover of baroque music.