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Title: Symphonies, Op. 4 Nos- 4-6 & Pandore (Excerpts)
Artist: La Stagione Frankfurt-Michael Schneider
Label: Cpo Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 761203578627
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2026-07-17
Number of Discs: 1
Franz Ignaz Beck was a Mannheim pupil from the very beginning. The son of the court oboist Franz Aloys Beck, he was taught by other court musicians after his father's early death before studying in Venice with Baldassare Galuppi and ultimately making his way via Naples to France. He was twenty-three when three of his symphonies won acclaim in Paris; yet he was soon drawn onward-to Marseille and then to Bordeaux, where, until 1798 (for more than thirty-five years), he served as Maître de Musique, overseeing operas and concerts as well as the performance of both his own works and those of others. The six symphonies Op. 4 date from his early years on the Garonne and are now presented complete. They represent Beck's final contributions to the genre in which he undertook bold yet successful experiments-stormy and urgent, filled with striking turns that electrified audiences and explain why he was sometimes hailed as the Berlioz of the eighteenth century. The music from the melodrama Pandora, composed some twenty years later, forms an illuminating counterpoint.
Tracks:
1.1 Symphony in D Major, Op. 4, No. 4
1.2 Symphony in G Major, Op. 4, No. 5
1.3 Symphony in E Flat Major, Op. 4, No. 6
1.4 From the Melodrama Pandore
Artist: La Stagione Frankfurt-Michael Schneider
Label: Cpo Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 761203578627
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2026-07-17
Number of Discs: 1
Franz Ignaz Beck was a Mannheim pupil from the very beginning. The son of the court oboist Franz Aloys Beck, he was taught by other court musicians after his father's early death before studying in Venice with Baldassare Galuppi and ultimately making his way via Naples to France. He was twenty-three when three of his symphonies won acclaim in Paris; yet he was soon drawn onward-to Marseille and then to Bordeaux, where, until 1798 (for more than thirty-five years), he served as Maître de Musique, overseeing operas and concerts as well as the performance of both his own works and those of others. The six symphonies Op. 4 date from his early years on the Garonne and are now presented complete. They represent Beck's final contributions to the genre in which he undertook bold yet successful experiments-stormy and urgent, filled with striking turns that electrified audiences and explain why he was sometimes hailed as the Berlioz of the eighteenth century. The music from the melodrama Pandora, composed some twenty years later, forms an illuminating counterpoint.
Tracks:
1.1 Symphony in D Major, Op. 4, No. 4
1.2 Symphony in G Major, Op. 4, No. 5
1.3 Symphony in E Flat Major, Op. 4, No. 6
1.4 From the Melodrama Pandore
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