Frank Beermann - Fesca: Symphony No. 1 - Three Overtures (2000) 
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 242 MB | Tracks: 7 | 55:48 min
Style: Classical | Label: CPO 
The excavation of the symphonists who labored in Beethoven's shadow has yielded some worthwhile music (by Kalliwoda, for example), and plenty more music that was set aside with the crystallization of the canon is on the way. Here Germany's North German Radio Philharmonic (NDR Radiophilharmonie) offers music by Friedrich Ernest Fesca (1789-1826), a Magdeburg-born musician who was better known as a violinist than as a composer. A sampling of a companion disc on CPO containing his second and third symphonies suggests that it might be the Fesca disc to try; the Symphony No. 1, composed in 1812, is closely modeled on Mozart's Symphony No. 39, K. 543, with a dash of Haydn's motivic work in the outer movements thrown in for good measure.