Radek Baborak - Hornkonzerte auf CD

Böhmische Tradition
In Böhmen gibt es eine lange Tradition erfolgreicher Hornisten, die noch heute anhält. In der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts beeindruckte Johann Wenzel Stich, genannt Giovanni Punto, mit seinem Spiel sogar Mozart und Beethoven, am Hof des Grafen Wallerstein spielten Josef Nagel und Frantisek Zverina und sogar eine Hornistin stand im Mittelpunkt des Konzertlebens: Beata Pokorny, die Tochter des Komponisten F. X. Pokorny. In dieser glanzvollen Tradition steht der derzeit international erfolgreiche Hornist Radek Baborák, der sich auf seiner neuesten CD den schönsten Konzerten seiner Heimat widmet.

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In the wake of the previous Supraphon CD »Serenade« (SU 3998-2), with its ground-breaking dramaturgy from 20th-century works, Radek Baborak, a phenomenal Czech musician and one of the world's foremost hornists, has returned to the Czech Classicist horn concerto. With his successful career, Baborak has linked up to the fates of the Czech horn players who back in the second half of the 18th century gained fame in prominent chapels in the territory of today's Germany. The most renowned of them, Giovanni Punto, enthralled Mozart and Beethoven to such an extent that they even dedicated compositions of theirs to him. Yet other Czech composers too had a penchant for composing for horn; Frantisek Xaver Pokorny for his daughter, the horn virtuoso Beata; Antonio Rosetti for Josef Nagel and Frantisek Zverina, outstanding Czech hornists in the Wallerstein court chapel. Even though Radek Baborak hasn't Italianised his name, his international acclaim proves that the »hornist from Bohemia« phenomenon has lost none of its meaning since the 18th century.

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