Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era

This edition brings together major works from four substantial repertories of orchestral serenades emanating from musical centers in South Germany and Austria. Part 1 presents works by Munich composers Wolfgang Kirmayr (d. 1795), Augustin Holler (1744-1814), and Joseph Willibald Michl (1745-1816). Part 2 contains serenades by Salzburg composer Joseph Hafeneder (1746-84), Thurn und Taxis (Regensburg) composer Franz Xaver Pokorny (1729-94), and Oettingen-Wallerstein (Swabia) kapellmeister Antonio Rosetti (ca. 1750-92). Each of these works is of a high musical quality and represents distinctive features of its particular repertory, illuminating in different ways how composers in these four musical centers responded to the requirements of writing a serenade. All works contain some degree of concertante orchestration, including a two-movement concerto cycle for solo violin in Hafeneder's serenade. The stylistic breadth ranges from the chamber-music intimacy and galant idiom of Kirmayr to the strongly symphonic style of Pokorny, and the more fully mature classicism of Rosetti.

Music Sample (C69) Music Sample (C70)

Contents:

Part 1: Munich
Serenata in C, Wolfgang Kirmayr

Marchia. Andante
Allegro spiritoso assai
Menuetto
Andante grazioso
Menuetto
Finale. Allegro

Marche. Maestoso
Allegro molto
Menuet
Adagio
Menuet
Poloneso
Menuet
Finale. Rondeaux

Adagio. Allegro
Menuetto
Rondeau. Andante
Menuetto
Finale. [Allegro]

Part 2: Salzburg, Thurn und Taxis, and Oettingen-Wallerstein
Serenata in D, Joseph Hafeneder

Allegro molto
Adagio
Rondo. Allegro
Menuetto
Adagio
Menuetto
Finale. Allegro molto
Marchia

Andante
Allegro spiritoso
Andante
Menuet. Vivace
Presto
Andante

Adagio non tanto. Marche. Fresco
Grave
Allegretto
Menuet
L'Echo. Adagio
[Fuga] Allegro molto
Allegretto
Vivace. Allegro