in Early Music Today (Dec, 2015)
This makes for an attractive collection of works by a trio of composers active in Vienna at the time of Haydn and Mozart. Indeed, both Johann Baptist Wanhal (Va?hal) and Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf were members of the celebrated string quartet that included their more famous colleagues. The finest composer of the trio is the Bohemian-born Wanhal, here represented by one of his best symphonies, an intense and dramatic work in A minor (Bryan a2), an appealing Violin Concerto in B flat, and a brief Requiem in E flat, probably written in memory of the composer’s mother, and a work that touches by dint of its extreme simplicity, the choral writing …
Dittersdorf / Wanhal / Ordonez: Forgotten Vienna
Double Violin Concerto in C major: I. Maestoso
Double Violin Concerto in C major: II. Adagio
Double Violin Concerto in C major: III. Presto
Symphony in A minor: I. Allegro Moderato
Symphony in A minor: II. Cantabile
Symphony in A minor: III. Menuet I and II
Symphony in A minor: IV. Allegro
Sinfonia in C Major: Adagio
Sinfonia in C Major: Allegro Molto
Sinfonia in C Major: Andante
Sinfonia in C Major: Presto
Violin Concerto in B flat major: I. Allegro Moderato
Violin Concerto in B flat major: II. Adagio
Violin Concerto in B flat major: III. Allegro
Requiem: I. Requiem aeternam
Requiem: II. Dies irae
Requiem: III. Domine Jesu Christe
Requiem: IV. Sanctus & Benedictus
Requiem: V. Agnus Dei
Requiem: VI. Lux aeterna
Requiem: VII. Requiem aeternam
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