J M Haydn Intégrales des symphonies et des concertos pour vents Warchal Goritzki Beermann Skou

The present edition contains the complete productions released by cpo between 1993 and 2018 on the subject of Michael Haydn’s symphonies and wind concertos. During the course of a quarter of a century, as might well be imagined, a wealth of material accumulated that could not be put to renewed use without considerable cuts. Nine authors had contributed information about the sources and special qualities of the music to the original releases, which necessarily led to duplications, repetitions, and other redundancies that were to be avoided in the compilation. Moreover, it took some time for the numbering system currently in use for the works to be implemented. The authors initially continued to refer Exclusively to the »Thematisches Verzeichnis der Instrumentalwerke von Michael Haydn« (to which we have assigned the letter P) that Lothar Perger had presented in the Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich (DTÖ). The »enumeration« by the American musicologist Charles H. Sherman (1929–2018) later began to appear in the booklets. Sherman initially compiled a provisional catalogue and then in 1993 published Johann Michael Haydn: A Chronological Thematic Catalogue of his Works in collaboration with T. Donley Thomas. This chronological listing (MH) and the P numbers, which soon will be 120 years old, are used whenever possible for the identification of the works recorded here. The names of the authors who once contributed their commentaries have been replaced with initials. The translations are in their entirety by Susan Marie Praeder. Two of the conductors who participated significantly in the realization of the complete recording are no longer with us: Bohdan Warchal, for many years the conductor of the Slovak Chamber Orchestra, died in 2000, and Johannes Goritzki, the founder and artistic director of the German Chamber Academy of Neuss am Rhein, set aside his conductor’s baton and cello bow forever in December 2018. The portraits were updated as much as possible. Our wish is that this unique edition may bring you great pleasure.