CD 1

Tyrolean Musical Treasures 1

This CD features choice examples of classical music from the Tyrol. The 18th- century compositions it presents are kept in Stams Monastery, the musical treasure-house of the Tyrol, and in the music collection of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (Tyrolean National Museum). All of the recordings creating the special resonance of this attractive collection of orchestral and chamber music by Tyrolean masters of the Age of Sensibility are older ones from the Tyrolean studio of the national radio, ORF. With their warm tonal quality and their enthusiastic aura of commitment to music making, their beauty is irreplaceable. Some pieces heard only in part are available in their entirety on another CD series: Music from Stams Monastery I and II (CDs 22 and 23). One musical jewel is the Parthia ab VIII instrumentis (tracks 7- 13) by the last director of the Innsbruck court ensemble of singers and instrumentalists, Johann Heinrich Hörmann (1694-1763), composed around 1730. This piece, unusual for its instrumentation alone – including a Jew’s harp – is one of the few compositions of instrumental music from the Tyrol of this period that has been preserved.

Track 7, 2:33
Intrada
Johann Heinrich Hörmann
(1694-1763)

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