Richter: 6 Symphonies, Op. 2 Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim & Johannes Moesus

• Franz Xaver Richter (1709 - 1789): Symphony in D Major, Op. 2 No. 1:
• 1 Richter: Symphony in D Major, Op. 2 No. 1: I. Allegro spiritoso 02:55
• 2 Richter: Symphony in D Major, Op. 2 No. 1: II. Andantino grazioso 03:02
• 3 Richter: Symphony in D Major, Op. 2 No. 1: III. Presto 01:26
• Symphony in F Major, Op. 2 No. 2:
• 4 Richter: Symphony in F Major, Op. 2 No. 2: I. Adagio con brio 02:43
• 5 Richter: Symphony in F Major, Op. 2 No. 2: II. Andantino affettuoso 03:48
• 6 Richter: Symphony in F Major, Op. 2 No. 2: III. Presto 02:30
• Symphony in C Major, Op. 2 No. 3:
• 7 Richter: Symphony in C Major, Op. 2 No. 3: I. Allegro con spirito 05:20
• 8 Richter: Symphony in C Major, Op. 2 No. 3: II. Andantino 02:20
• 9 Richter: Symphony in C Major, Op. 2 No. 3: III. Presto ma non tanto 03:26
• Symphony in E-Flat Major, Op. 2 No. 4:
• 10 Richter: Symphony in E-Flat Major, Op. 2 No. 4: I. Allegro maestoso 05:35
• 11 Richter: Symphony in E-Flat Major, Op. 2 No. 4: II. Andante grazioso 04:30
• 12 Richter: Symphony in E-Flat Major, Op. 2 No. 4: III. Menuetto - Trio - Menuetto da capo 03:23
• Symphony in G Major, Op. 2 No. 5:
• 13 Richter: Symphony in G Major, Op. 2 No. 5: I. Allegro con brio 02:26
• 14 Richter: Symphony in G Major, Op. 2 No. 5: II. Andantino 03:28
• 15 Richter: Symphony in G Major, Op. 2 No. 5: III. Vivace 02:06
• Symphony in D Major, Op. 2 No. 6:
• 16 Richter: Symphony in D Major, Op. 2 No. 6: I. Allegro spiritoso 02:26
• 17 Richter: Symphony in D Major, Op. 2 No. 6: II. Andantino grazioso 03:40
• 18 Richter: Symphony in D Major, Op. 2 No. 6: III. Presto 02:17
• Total Runtime 57:21

Info for Richter: 6 Symphonies, Op. 2

Carl Theodor of the Palatinate. Richter joined this renowned ensemble in 1747, serving as a composer, violinist, and bassist. His works combine Baroque stylistic features with elements of the style galant, and he numbered among the masters of the Mannheim school who made very important contributions to the beginnings of the early classical symphony. While Johann Stamitz, Ignaz Holzbauer, and Anton Fils, drawing on ideas of Italian provenance, shaped the new musical language of what came to be known as the Mannheim school, Richter’s own comparatively conservative view of music was an obstacle to his advancement. His collection of Six Symphonies op. 2 dedicated to Prince Elector Carl Theodor was printed by the publisher Johann Julius Hummel in Amsterdam in 1759. All six symphonies have three movements, and in these works Richter generally adhered to the model established by the opera sinfonia. Only the fourth symphony in this collection forms an exception in that Richter has a minuet with a trio in the last position instead of a presto. Despite some backward-looking tendencies, Richter was not at all an enemy of progress – but just the opposite: he was the first “Mannheimer” to publish string quartets. Our recording of the symphonies is based on the editions prepared at the research center for the study of Southwest German court music at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.

Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim
Johannes Moesus, conductor

Johannes Moesus
Johannes Moesus has acquired widespread recognition as a specialist in the 18th- and 19th-century symphony and as a musical explorer with a penchant for familiar and unknown composers of the Classical period. A highly sensitive conductor, his exhilarating concerts bear witness to a firm stylistic grasp of the classical-romantic repertoire and modern music.

His judiciously compiled programmes unite works from diverse stylistic epochs to convey exciting musical messages. Since the early 1990s he has been actively involved in music appreciation, achieving great success as a moderator of his own concerts with integrated introductions to the works performed.

After studying with Karl Österreicher and Franco Ferrara at the universities of music in Hanover, Frankfurt and Vienna, Johannes Moesus launched his career in Frankfurt and Stuttgart, receiving important guidance from Lorin Maazel, Michael Gielen and Sir Roger Norrington. He worked with such major national and international orchestras as the Stuttgart RSO, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Southwest German Radio Orchestra in Kaiserslautern, the German Chamber Philharmonic (Augsburg), the Berne SO, the Spanish National Orchestra (Madrid), the Hungarian National Philharmonic (Budapest) and many chamber orchestras, including those of Zurich, Heilbronn, Stuttgart and Lausanne.

In his guest appearances with the Southwest German Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the Palatinate, the Göttingen SO, the Württemberg Philharmonic of Reutlingen (with guest performances at the Gustav Mahler Festival in Toblach), the Northwest German Philharmonic (Herford), the North German Philharmonic (Rostock) and the Hamburg Symphony, he has performed with soloists of the calibre of Gábor Boldoczki, Hanno Dönneweg, Christoph Eß, Maria Graf, Pirmin Grehl, Simon Höfele, Maximilian Hornung, Matthias Kirschnereit, Alexander Krichel, Jens-Peter Maintz, Sebastian Manz, Albrecht Mayer, Sabine Meyer, Nils Mönkemeyer, Magali Mosnier, Daniel Müller-Schott, Sergej Nakariakov, Lena Neudauer, Dorothee Oberlinger, Andreas und Daniel Ottensamer, Nemanja Radulović, Gaby Pas-Van Riet, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Ingolf Turban, Radovan Vlatković, Tianwa Yang and William Youn.

Johannes Moesus has always been a very welcome guest at important festivals such as the Mozartfest Würzburg, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Kissinger and Nymphenburger Sommer, the "Gezeiten-Festival“, the Europäische Wochen Passau, the Internationale Haydn-Biennale Flandern, Klassika Prague and, of course, "his“ Rosetti-Festtage im Ries.

Since 2006 his ‘Ludwigslust Classical Music’ series at the Mecklenburg-West Pomerania Festival has brought him together on a regular basis with the North German Radio Chorus and the Mecklenburg Baroque Orchestra.

His wide-ranging and colourful repertoire is reflected in a steadily growing discography: works by Rosetti, Beecke, Cavallini, Goepfert, Graf, Haydn, Hertel, Hoffmeister, Kalliwoda, Mozart, Pleyel, Reinecke, Rossini, Vanhal, Winter, Witt und Woelfl (including many première recordings) can be heard under his baton on the cpo, MDG, Ars, Arte Nova, Orfeo, Profil Edition Hänssler and Tacet labels. His on-going productions appear regularly on the cpo label.

He collaborates on a regular basis with broadcasting companies both in Germany and abroad. His concerts have been produced, recorded and/or broadcast live on Bavarian Radio, Central German Radio, North German Radio, Southwest German Radio, Deutschlandradio Kultur, Deutschland-funk/Deutsche Welle, Swiss Radio and Czech Radio. In 2013 he conducted the concert “Paganini of the Trumpet”, which was recorded and has since been broadcast many times on Bavarian television and ARD-Alpha.

Since 1997 Johannes Moesus has been the president of the International Rosetti Society and has actively furthered the rediscovery of this composer as artistic director of the Ries Rosetti Festival, which he founded in 2000. From 2012 until 2019 principal conductor of the Bavarian Chamber Orchestra, which is resident in Bad Brückenau/Northern Bavaria, Johannes Moesus is now Conductor Laureate of the ensemble.

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