Jan Křtitel Jiří Neruda - Concerto in E flat major for trumpet & orchestra, Karel Vencour (trumpet), Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Petr Chromčák
I. Allegro – 00:00
II. Largo – 05:41
III. Vivace – 10:46
Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (Czech: Jan Křtitel Jiří Neruda, c. 1708 – c. 1780) was a classical Czech composer.
“There are Bohemian and Moravian musical dynasties for which the information handed down has been rather confusing. Over the years, for example, various musicians bearing the name Neruda have been tentatively linked together as if they came from one single family but the fifth edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives Neruda as the 'name of several distinguished musicians of Czech parentage, who only in some cases stood in proven relationship to one other.' The following edition of this Dictionary is more precise and warns against confusing two almost exactly contemporaneous musicans called Josef Neruda and goes on to list three descendents of the one and one descendant of the other. It seems, however, that Jan Krtitel Neruda was a member of neither of those families but that he had an elder brother, Jan Chrysostomas, who, after working for a time as a violinist in a theatre in Prague, entered a monastery in that city where he acted first as succentor and then as cantor and choirmaster. Like his brother, Jan Křtitel or Johann Baptist as he is also known, was for several years a violinist in a theatre orchestra in Prague. Later, however, he moved to the German city of Dresden where he joined the court orchestra, eventually becoming its Konzertmeister. (His two sons also became members of the same orchestra in 1764.) Jan Křtitel Neruda composed symphonies and concertos (for violin, bassoon, horn and trumpet), some sacred works and an opera.” (July 2010 Peter Avis)

“According to Nimbus Records Ltd. (1994), one of the composer's more significant works is the Concerto in E-flat for Trumpet and Strings. Originally written for the "corno da caccia" or "natural horn" using only the high register, it is now rarely performed on anything other than an E-flat or B-flat trumpet. Incidentally, the Corno da Caccia for which Neruda wrote is not to be confused with the 4-valved hunting horn which has recently been given the same name. The manuscript for this piece is in the National Library in Prague, along with several other unusual works for brass instruments.” (Wikipedia)

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