Beck: 6 Symphonies, Op. 2 Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra & Kevin Mallon

• Franz Ignaz Beck (1734–1809): Sinfonia in D major, Op. 2, No. 1 (Callen 7)
• 1 I. Allegro assai 03:27
• 2 II. Andante grazioso 04:09
• 3 III. Presto 03:18
• Sinfonia in G minor, Op. 2, No. 2 (Callen 8)
• 4 I. Allegro moderato 04:32
• 5 II. Andante 04:25
• 6 III. Presto 03:10
• Sinfonia in A major, Op. 2, No. 3 (Callen 9)
• 7 I. Allegro moderato 06:03
• 8 II. Andantino 03:56
• 9 III. Presto 03:29
• Sinfonia in E flat major, Op. 2, No. 4 (Callen 10)
• 10 I. Allegro 03:37
• 11 II. Adagio 03:46
• Sinfonia in D major, Op. 2, No. 6 (Callen 12)
• 12 III. Presto 02:51
• 13 I. Allegro 04:35
• 14 II. Andante 03:41
• 15 III. Presto 02:09
• Sinfonia in G major, Op. 2, No. 5 (Callen 11)
• 16 I. Allegro assai 04:37
• 17 II. Andante 04:56
• 18 III. Presto 02:32
• Total Runtime 01:09:13

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Franz Ignaz Beck is increasingly acknowledged as one of the most forwardlooking 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.

The Irish conductor Kevin Mallon studied composition, conducting (with J. E. Gardiner) and singing, and specialized in baroque violin. He became concertmaster with Le Concert Spirituel and Les Arts Florissants in Paris and led and directed The Irish Baroque Orchestra before moving to Canada to take up posts with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and the University of Toronto. In 1999 he founded the Aradia Ensemble, with whom he has toured widely and has made over 50 recordings for Naxos. In 2010 Mallon was appointed Music Director of Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra in Ottawa. Kevin Mallon fulfills a wide range of guest conducting engagements, is an Irish fiddler as well as a composer, most recently writing music for the TV series Camelot.

„Ten years ago, when Naxos issued the first release in the Sinfonias of Franz Beck, I described them as being the role models that shaped the era of Haydn and Mozart. Since then we have had three further discs that have enhanced Beck’s stature, and points to the fact that he was probably the most gifted orchestral composer of his time. Many parts of his life are not well chronicled, but he was certainly a highly gifted pupil of Johann Stamitz and was proficient on several instruments. Thereafter his name appears in many places across Europe as a performing musician, and he obviously created much interest as a composer, his symphonic music readily accepted for publication in Paris during the 1750’s and 60’s. We do not have the exact date of composition of the opus 2, but, unlike the orchestral weight of the following opus 3,they were scored for a small ensemble of strings and harpsichord continuo, a pair of horns being added to the Second and Fifth Sinfonias. In the accepted form of three movements, two fast ones enclosing a slow andante or adagio, the writing is often highly decorated and calling for much agility in the first violins. It is certainly true to say that the basic melodic material is as pleasing as anything we find in early Haydn, and even more immediately memorable. The performances from the Canadian group, Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra, are neat and ideally schooled in that aspect we today call ‘period informed style’. The conductor, Kevin Mallon, keeps the outer movements moving at an urgent pace in an immaculate recording from Naxos’s resident Canadian team. The release is made in conjunction with newly edited performing parts from Artaria Editions.“ (David Denton, David's Review Corner)

Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra
Kevin Mallon, conductor

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