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From the Liner Notes :
Antonio Rosetti (ca. 1750 - 1792), born in Bohemia, spent the best years of his life in Germany, in small principalities, far removed from the music capitals of his age. However, the English music historian Charles Burney (1726 - 1814) who undertook extensive travels in Europe, ranked him among the most outstanding musicians of his time and as the equal of Haydn and Mozart. The public loved Rosetti - and there is plenty of documentary evidence to show that his works were often played throughout Europe. By the end of the 1790s, at least half of those of Rosetti's compositions that have come down to us had been published, some of them, moreover, by very well-established music publishers.
Throughout his comparatively short life, Rosetti wrote quite a lot of music. Today we know of the existence of over 400 works: more than 40 symphonies, about 60 concertos for different instruments (piano, violin, viola, flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon), upwards of 20 works for brass band, a lot of chamber music, pieces for piano, songs and sacred choral music. The works he composed in his mature years are distinguished by their infinitely rich and colorful harmonic language, full of chromatic inflection, and by very inventive instrumentation.
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MA Recordings will soon be discontinuing the sale of Caro
Mitis, the Hybrid
SACD classical label from Russia.
All recordings produced by Caro Mitis (translated
from the Latin as "Succulent Fruit") are pure multi-channel
DSD productions, most of them recorded in the revered studios of
The Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (RTR) in Moscow.
Caro Mitis'
policy is to present state-of-art performances of classical works
by outstanding Russian & European
musicians, ensembles & orchestras. The catalog contains a number
of World Premiere Recordings, particularly of early music.
Caro Mitis fundamentals
are:
• recording and postproduction
by Polyhymnia International B.V. from Holland, the leader in the
SACD format that also works with Harmonia Mundi, Pentatone
and others.
• manufacturing of all titles as hybrid SACDs (thus allowing listeners
to play the disks on regular CD-players as well as SACD players) at SONY DADC
(Austria);
• unique designs for each disk (created by Kosta Gusalov - one of the leading
Russian graphic artists) based on the use of national historical engravings
• multi-lingual booklets and inlays with extensive illustrated information
• a long-term
recording program with a number of World Premiere Recordings every
year.
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