The symphonies of Johann Baptist Vaňhal are among the most important works of the classical period. Bold and imaginative, powerful and lyrical, Vaňhal’s symphonies are only now beginning to win wider recognition as the masterpieces they are. This recording features one of the composer’s most extraordinary early works, the turbulent Symphony in C minor (Bryan c2) and the masterly Symphony in A flat with its hauntingly beautiful slow movement with solo horn.