Zelenka - Concerto à 8 concertanti in G major, ZWV 186

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Score / sheet music of Zelenka's "Concerto à 8 Concertanti" in G Major, /Z. 186/ - the score of which is badly damaged unfortunately, and no modern typeset score exists, which is why as my work as a amateur musicologist and transcriber, I am in the process of creating a urtext edition score, to come later and not any time soon, as this work will have to be reconstructed somewhat given the missing notes at times in the manuscript.
This Concerto for 8 solo instruments was written as with all his other instrumental works on a trip to Prague, in 1723, which, "has the feel of an experiment in instrumental combinations, a bit like the /Brandenburg/ Concertos Bach sent to the Margrave of Brandenburg two years earlier. In the first movement, the oboe steps out of the Vivaldian tutti for just long enough to make it appear that we have an oboe concerto on our hands, before the violin steps to the front as well. In the weightier E-minor slow movement, which sounds more like Bach than Vivaldi, the bassoon and cello join the violin and oboe as soloists while the rest of the ensemble recedes into the background until the movement’s emotionally wrought climax. The last movement is in the sort of international cosmopolitan style that became a hallmark of German musical progressivism in that age." - notes by Howard Posner.

I. Allegro - 00:00​
II. Largo - 6:22
III. Allegro - 10:59

Performer(s):    • Concerto in Sol a otto concertanti, ZWV 18...