Josef Rejcha - Oboe Concerto in B flat major

Josef Reicha (Rejcha)

(12 February 1752 – 5 March 1795) was a Czech cellist, composer and conductor.

He was the uncle of composer and music theorist Anton Reicha.

 

Oboe Concerto in B flat major

Jan Adamus Oboe
Pardubice Chamber Orchestra
Petr Altrichter, Conductor

 

Reicha wrote music for orchestra and chamber ensembles of different kinds. His works include symphonies, various concertos including ten for cello, twelve partitas for wind instruments and miscellaneous other works. Most of Reicha's compositions were completed in Wallerstein, before his Bonn years. His writing for strings and cello particularly is markedly virtuosic, reflecting his own skill. Music scholar Ludwig Schiedermair in 'Der junge Beethoven' (Leipzig, 1925) gave specific examples taken from Reicha's partitas and symphonies and has proven that these works influenced Beethoven. Other important admirers of Reicha included Leopold Mozart and Michael Haydn.