Despite being one of the most prolific composers of his time, Pleyel's music is sadly missing from many of today's concert stages. This album was produced by the Moscow Concertino and Evgueni Bushkov to commemorate the Pleyel's 250th birthday and, perhaps, expose more listeners to his music. Despite their best intentions, however, Bushkov and his ...
The current expansion of the Classical-era repertory, with thanks due in many cases to the Naxos label, has only rarely touched on Haydn's student Ignaz Pleyel, although his name surfaces during several key episodes in Haydn's life. Pleyel, said to be one of 38 (!) children, traveled to Italy after studying with his famous teacher, so one might ...
The cello concertos of Ignace Pleyel may be generally unfamiliar to many listeners outside of a cello teaching studio. These five works have been greatly overshadowed by the cello concertos of Haydn and even Boccherini. This is truly a shame; while Pleyel's works may not have the virtuosic component of the Haydn concertos (particularly the D major ...
Composing string quartets in the shadow of Haydn -- who is often regarded as the father of the modern string quartet -- could not have been an entirely easy task. But many composers, including Ignaz Pleyel, actually enjoyed great success as quartet composers during their lifetimes and have only been forgotten by history in its near-idolization of ...
The symphonie concertante, the descendant of the Baroque concerto grosso with its opposition of orchestra and solo group, remains a fascinating but little-known genre of the Classical era, with only Haydn's single example and a pair by Mozart, one of them with a murky history, in common circulation. Viennese composers wrote a few, but in France ...
Haydn's student Ignace Joseph Pleyel was nearly as prolific as his Austrian parents (he was one of 38 children), and not all of the various attempts to revive his work have found music worth reviving. His music remains mostly unknown, and instrumentalists and ensembles haven't sorted through it to find the gems. This effort by virtuoso German ...
If anything tangible can be made of the current-day reputation of Ignaz Pleyel, it is as a manufacturer of pianos. Starting his firm in 1807, more than 200 years later, there are still Pleyel pianos produced; Frédéric Chopin was one pianist who preferred the touch of a Pleyel. Slightly more expert music fanciers will also note that Pleyel was a ...
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, known mostly as an early piano manufacturer, was also Haydn's student, and briefly his rival in a musical competition trumped up during Haydn's visit to London in 1792. Most of the recordings of Pleyel's music that have appeared thus far merely confirm why the Londoners continued to play Haydn and forgot Pleyel, but these wind ...
For listeners who know and love every single string quartet that Haydn and Mozart ever wrote and whose only complaint is that they didn't write more, meet Ignace Pleyel. While not in the same league as those two masters' quartets, Pleyel's quartets are still charming enough, inventive enough, and lovely enough to merit an occasional listening. ...
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