The musicians at Mannheim formulated a codified, highly articulate musical language, which is full of rhetorical musical gestures and effects borrowed from earlier musical languages. In its classic form, the Mannheim symphonic language typically combines energetic and exciting Italianate string figurations with driving bass lines, and soothing cantabile Italian opera style melody writing.

The New Dutch Academy Mannheim Project is an immense project involving original material from dozens of libraries throughout the world, the analysis of manuscripts, the preparation of working scores, the consultation of treatises and other sources; thought about aesthetical schools, flows, changes and in relation to instruments, playing techniques and musical realization; and the combination of all this with performance, learning the Mannheim language, and bringing the music to life. Through this disc we are very proud to launch our Mannheim Project, and to set the tone for the resulting series of recordings which will present newly discovered works, many of which will appear here for the first time in recorded form.

Musicians: The Mannheim Project; The Chamber Orchestra of The New Dutch Academy directed by Simon Murphy on authentic instruments.

Selections:
Stamitz's Sinfonia a Quattro in A
1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Presto
Richter's Sinfonia a Quattro in B flat
4. Spiritoso
5. Andante
6. Presto
Richter's Sinfonia a Quattro in C minor
7. Allegro ma poco
8. Tempo giusto
9. Allegro
Stamitz's Sinfonia a Quattro in D
10. Presto
11. Andante
12. Presto
from Symphony in D major " Op. XI, No. 1"
13. Andante non Adagio