Danzi PC, CC & Overture in D

[Alan Howe]

Howard Griffiths is at it again! Try track 4 for a very Beethovenian-sounding bit of Danzi!>>>
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/ouverture-cello-concerto/hnum/7818160

[Gareth Vaughan]

And what very splendid music this is. Quite an ear-opener for me - I have never really explored Danzi.

[Alan Howe]

Try the symphonies (HG again!!):
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/Franz-Danzi-1763-1826-S%E4mtliche-Symphonien/hnum/3482611
There's also his 'Romantic Opera' Der Berggeist (1813):
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Franz-Danzi-1763-1826-Der-Berggeist-oder-Schicksal-und-Treue/hnum/3386176
...which I'm sure Weber must have known.

[Gareth Vaughan]

Thanks, Alan. I will investigate.

[Alan Howe]

The PC in E flat (1799), I am convinced, is one of the great late-classical/proto-romantic PCs. It's fascinating to hear what Danzi was doing at the same time as Beethoven was penning his first two PCs. I urge anyone with an interest in this period to get hold of this quite magnificent CD.

[Alan Howe]

Has anyone else bought this superlative recording?

[sdtom]

I wasn't aware of what he had to offer which is why I'm a member of this forum 

[M. Yaskovsky]

Just listened to this recording on Spotify. Pleasant music, full of piano and cello pyrotechnics. More Haydn than Beethoven. Truely professional composer one could say. It matters me more than the two Naxos-Czerny recordings I heard a while ago.

[Alan Howe]

The PC's definitely more than Haydn. The template's surely (late) Mozart; and the CC doesn't sound anything like Haydn. And then there's the extraordinary first section of the Overture, which is pure Beethoven. There's more than mere professionalism at work here, and certainly more than simple pyrotechnics  - there's a truly adventurous spirit.