Intégrale des concertos pour violon

Description

Shortly after Josef Myslivecek left Prague for Italy in 1763, he gained an important position there and soon experienced the first major successes of his operas. However, opera was far from his only area of interest. In Padua in the late 1760s, Myslivecek also managed to familiarize himself with the music of the violin virtuoso Giuseppe Tartini, and it is likely under his influence that Myslivecek successively produced six violin concertos. There are undeniable archaic elements in Myslivecek's concertos that show Tartini's influence. The period in which they were composed coincides with the time of Myslivecek's intensive contacts with the young Mozart, and many aspects of Mozart's violin concertos were clearly influenced by the music of his older friend. The recording by Shizuka Ishikawa, winner of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels (1976) and the Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna (1979), apparently represents the only complete set of violin concertos by Josef Myslivecek. The young Japanese virtuoso recorded them for Supraphon in 1983 and 1986 in the Dvorák Hall of the Rudolfinum in Prague, and her artistic partner is none other than conductor Libor Pešek.