Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf: Sinfonie No.4 in F Major after Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', Bohumil Gregor

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf - Sinfonia No.4 in F Major, ‘Andromède sauvée par Persée’, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Bohumil Gregor (conductor)
1. Adagio Non Molto – 00:00
2.Presto - 10:28
3.Larghetto.Tempo Di Minuetto – 17:05
4.Finale: Vivace – 21:09
Carl (Karl) Ditters von Dittersdorf (2 November 1739 – 24 October 1799) was an Austrian composer and violinist.
A brilliant child violinist, Ditters played regularly at the age of 12 in the orchestra of Prince von Sachsen-Hildburghausen and later in the orchestra of the Vienna opera. He became friendly with the composer Christoph Gluck and accompanied him in 1761 to Bologna, Italy. There Ditters gained considerable celebrity with his violin playing.
In about 1779 he formed a close friendship with Joseph Haydn, who directed five of his operas at Eszterháza. Dittersdorf was also the music teacher of Johann Baptist Vanhal. About 1785, Haydn, Dittersdorf, Mozart and Vanhal played string quartets together. Haydn and Dittersdorf played the violins; Mozart, the viola; and Vanhal, the cello (on at least one famous occasion joined by Haydn and Johann Vanhal, then a popular composer of string quartets).
Apart from his many dramatic and sacred works, Dittersdorf composed over 100 symphonies and 40 or so concertos, many of which are for the violin, his own virtuoso instrument. Among his symphonies are twelve programmatic ones based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, although only six have survived (and have also been recorded).