Guretzky: Concertos The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen

• Josef Antonin Guretzky (1709 - 1769): Cello Concerto in A Minor, D-WD 573:
• 1 Guretzky: Cello Concerto in A Minor, D-WD 573: I. Allegro 03:28
• 2 Guretzky: Cello Concerto in A Minor, D-WD 573: II. Adagio 03:56
• 3 Guretzky: Cello Concerto in A Minor, D-WD 573: III. Presto 04:24
• 4 Guretzky: Cello Concerto in G Major, D-WD 574: I. Allegro 05:18
• 5 Guretzky: Cello Concerto in G Major, D-WD 574: II. Largo 04:21
• 6 Guretzky: Cello Concerto in G Major, D-WD 574: III. Vivace 05:57
• Violin Concerto in D Major:
• 7 Guretzky: Violin Concerto in D Major: I. Allegro moderato 06:01
• 8 Guretzky: Violin Concerto in D Major: II. Grave 04:39
• 9 Guretzky: Violin Concerto in D Major: III. Vivace 06:17
• Bohuslav Matej Cernohorsky (1684 - 1742):
• 10 Cernohorsky: Fugue in A Minor 02:46
• Josef Antonin Guretzky: Cello Concerto in F Major, D-WD 577:
• 11 Guretzky: Cello Concerto in F Major, D-WD 577: I. Allegro 04:10
• 12 Guretzky: Cello Concerto in F Major, D-WD 577: II. Largo 03:25
• 13 Guretzky: Cello Concerto in F Major, D-WD 577: III. Allegro 06:31
• Cello Concerto in D Major, D-WD 575:
• 14 Guretzky: Cello Concerto in D Major, D-WD 575: I. Allegro 04:47
• 15 Guretzky: Cello Concerto in D Major, D-WD 575: II. Adagio 03:08
• 16 Guretzky: Cello Concerto in D Major, D-WD 575: III. Vivace 04:06
• Total Runtime 01:13:14

Info for Guretzky: Concertos

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 Matej Cernohorský.

“...This music certainly brings out good things in the Tickle-Fiddlers, who fully justify their name. There is real joy in the music-making. The ensemble-playing, under the artistic direction of Robert Rawson, is crisp and buoyant. And even the soloists – cellist Kinga Gáborjáni, violinist Rodolfo Richter and harpsichordist David Wright, who contributes a delicate fugue by Bohuslav Matej Cernohorský – wear their virtuosity lightly.” (Hanna Nepil, Gramophone magazine)

"...Magnificently named, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen play these works with a single player per part with a harpsichord continuo, the selection of instruments including a double bass and following documented practice for the period. The resulting sound is both crisp and attractively full, and with a plethora of premières on this disc there can be no complaints in terms of freshness. If you are looking to expand your experience of 18th century music from an unexplored mid-European source then this is a highly enjoyable place to find such delights." (Dominy Clements - MusicWeb International)

The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen

The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen
Taking its name from the description by the poet Ned Ward of the musicians who played at one of the world’s first series of public concerts, in London, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen was founded in 2006 to explore the neglected repertoire of public concert life in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Described on BBC Radio 3 as ‘purveyors of exhilarating and uplifting music’, the ensemble also maintains a broader interest in early eighteenth-century music for public concerts from across Europe. Its first CD, Concertos and Overtures for London, devoted to works by Johann Christoph Pepusch, won accolades around the world and became a bestseller in Germany, reaching No. 1 in the German classical charts in 2012. Its follow-up CD, of Pepusch’s 1715 masque Venus and Adonis, also received critical acclaim around the globe and was nominated in the ‘Opera 1’ category for the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik in 2016. The group continues to perform in concerts and festivals across Europe.

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