CD27

Anton Reicha Trios,
   Op. 82 & 93     complete
   - A two CD set

Released: c. 2011

The Physical CD's are sold out.

Please find the digital download from BandCamp:

CD27-1 Anton Reicha: 24 Trios, Op. 82 from BandCamp

CD27-2 Anton Reicha: 12 Trios, Op. 93 from BandCamp

 

Program Notes:

Anton Reicha (1770 - 1836) was a born in Prague, ran away from home at the age of 10 to live with his uncle composer Josef Reicha. Later he attended the University of Bonn, and lived for a time in Hamburg and Vienna before settling in Paris, where he was a professor at the conservatory. His teachers were Salieri and Albrechtsberger and his most famous students include Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz and Charles Gounod.

Being that Reicha worked at the Paris Conservatory at the same time as the virtuous hornist Dauprat these trios and his quintet, although a small part of his total out-put, are significant works for the advanced natural horn player like Dauprat.

I am not the first to record the trio’s opus 82 and some of the trio’s opus 93 have been recorded, but to my knowledge, this is the first complete recording of that set of trios. The opus 82 trios were written for three natural horns (hand horns played with the hand in the horn bell) in the same key (Eb). The trio’s opus 93 were written for two horns with cello or bassoon on the bass part. Because I was not able to find a performer in Regina who could play the bassoon or cello at low pitch (I use A= 432) I chose to record these with two natural horns and my “1880’s” Wunderlich model single F horn in the bass.

The keys are clunky and I performed these in a crossover style using natural horn technique and also some valve use. I think the horn would have been played this way during the transition to the modern valve horn style. In modern performance practice the closed notes of the hand horn are not employed except where a composer might request such, which means we lose some of the expressive colors that make the natural horn so wonderful and we lose the way the open and closed notes define the tonality.

For quite a while I felt that the covered tones of the old horn needed to be somewhat hidden, but more and more I am moving to a style that brings out these contrasting tones. By letting the tones happen, I feel I am more expressive and better in tune.

Richard O. Burdick

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About the Performer:

Richard Burdick as a musician:
French hornist: Richard O. Burdick is the first horn of Regina Symphony Orchestra and the Regina Symphony Chamber Players in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is a prolific composer.

His move to Canada in 2003, with his wife Rebecca and his two boys, marked the start of the fourth major period in his musical Career.

In the 1980’s Richard was first Horn of Napa Symphony, a member of a San Francisco based theater orchestra and played lots of chamber music as manager of Trinity Chamber Concerts, a chamber music series in Berkeley California.

Starting in 1990 he played fourth Horn full-time for Sacramento Symphony, which went bankrupt in 1996. He then won auditions for Fresno Philharmonic, Napa & North State Symphonies and played in Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera.

He is a prolific composer and has many self produced CD’s of his own compositions, Bach, his classical natural horn playing and multi-track performances of many of his favorite pieces.

He performs on a variety of horns, a baroque natural horn (1720), a classical era natural horn (1800), a romantic era (1840's) natural horn, a single F horn from the 1880's, his main symphony horn is a Brendan Model Finke triple horn.

He has also done many music related jobs such as arranger for Sacramento Symphony, librarian and personal manager for Sacramento Philharmonic, and manager of Trinity Chamber Concerts (chamber music series) in Berkeley, California for 19 years starting in 1984.

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Tracks List:

 

 

13	Allegro	3:57
14	Minuette	2:45
15	Tritonus	1:15
16	Tempo di Marcia	2:11
17	Lento - Allegro	3:25
18	Fugue	3:23
19	Lento	2:52
20	Allegretto	2:03
21	Allegro	2:58
22	Lento - Allegro	3:01
23	Minuette	3:20
24	Allegro scherzando	2:48
	total time:	69:11

 

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Bar codes:

bar code for orginal digital release: 7 53182 20824 4

August 2022 release through BandCamp:
728488426265 -cd27-1 re-release
728488426272 -cd27-2 re-release

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