Muzio Clementi: Symphony No.1 in C Major, WoO 32, restored and completed by A. Casella

Описание: Muzio Clementi - Symphony No.1 in C Major, WoO 32 (restored and completed by Alfredo Casella, 1938):
I. Larghetto - Allegro vivace 0:00
II. Andante con moto 09:00
III. Minuetto. Allegretto – Trio 14:45
IV. Finale. Allegro vivace - Animato e giocoso 19:39
London Mozart Players, Matthias Bamert (conductor)

Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi (23 January 1752 – 10 March 1832) was an Italian composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer.
He was Encouraged to study music by his father. In 1766 Sir Peter Beckford visited Rome and he was impressed by the young Clementi's musical talent and negotiated with his father to take him to his estate, in Dorset, England. Beckford agreed to provide quarterly payments to sponsor the boy's musical education until he reached the age of 21. In return, he was expected to provide musical entertainment. For the next seven years Clementi lived, performed, and studied at the estate in Dorset.
Later, he toured Europe numerous times from his long-standing base in London. It was on one of these occasions, in 1781, that he engaged in a piano competition with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Influenced by Domenico Scarlatti's harpsichord school and Haydn's classical school and by the stile galante of Johann Christian Bach and Ignazio Cirri, Clementi developed a fluent and technical legato style, which he passed on to a generation of pianists, including John Field, Johann Baptist Cramer, Ignaz Moscheles, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Carl Czerny. He was a notable influence on Ludwig van Beethoven.

“Clementi was preoccupied with symphonic composition especially between about 1784 and 1795 and betwen about 1819 and 1824, and it is clear that the works that have survived represent only a small part of his complete symphonic output. Only two symphonies were published during his lifetime and survive intact: in B flat and in D issued as Op. 18 in London in 1787. Four others, certainly of later date, exist in incomplete form, in autograph manuscript scores. Two of the later ones (No.1 in C WoO 32 and No.2 in D WoO 33) were 'restored and completed’ by Alfredo Casella and published by Ricordi in 1938. The reconstruction of these later symphonies is made more problematical by the fact that even Clementi's 'fair copies' cannot be reliably regarded as definitive text. In some cases he took a pair of saissors to the scores, cropping the margins, thereby often removing tempo-indications, key signatures, and even notes; and we know that between one performance and another he would sometimes change movements, and that in two cases (wo32 and 35) he transposed whole symphonies up a tone. “ (Robin Golding, Album notes).