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Pleyel: Symphonies.
Howard Griffiths, Zurcher Kammerorchester. CPO 999 759-2.
If the music sounds like Haydn or Mozart, don't be surprised. Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831) was a contemporary of those men, and, surprisingly, in his day he was thought to be greater than Mozart and the successor to Haydn! Today he's all but forgotten except in occasional recordings that, alas, I would guess few people will buy. Nevertheless, this disc, like one from Denon I reviewed several years ago, should make him new friends. Pleyel's music may be outdated, but not any the less fun.
The three works on this album are his Symphony op. 3, in D major; his Second Symphonie Concertante for Violin, Piano, and Orchestra; and his Sixth Symphonie Periodique. These from a man who wrote almost as many symphonies as Mozart! Yet by the end of his lifetime his critics were calling his music old-fashioned, lightweight, ...
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