Peter von Winter: Sinfonia concertante in B flat major for Violin, Clarinet, Basoon, and Horn

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Peter Von Winter - Sinfonia concertante in B flat major, for Violin, Clarinet, Basoon, and Horn Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Jiri Malat (conductor)
Wolfgang Schwarzmuller – violin, Karl Schlechta – clarinet, Jurgen Gode – bassoon, Xiao-Ming Han – horn
1.Allegro moderato 0:00
2.Andante grazioso 08:57
3.Rondo 15:59

Peter Winter (28 August 1754 – 17 October 1825) was a German opera composer who followed Mozart and preceded Weber, acting as a bridge between the two in the development of German opera. (His name is sometimes given as Peter von Winter)
Winter was born at Mannheim. As a pupil of the music grammar-school he discovered the love of music at an early age. He was taught by musicians from the Court Orchestra and is reputed to have performed with them as a violinist in the orchestra at the age of ten.
Winter — a man, according to Louis Spohr, "of colossal build, endowed with enormous strength" — switched to the double-bass for a short while before returning to the violin and in 1776 becoming Kapellmeister of Marchand's Opera Group, guests at the theatre, in Mannheim.
His compositional "tools" were effectively acquired from the Emperor's Court Kapellmeister, Antonio Salieri (1750-1825), during a stay of a few months in Vienna in1780/81 together with his colleague, the clarinet virtuoso Franz Tausch. Peter von Winter, who — like most members of the Mannheim Orchestra — followed the Palatine Court to Munich, was promoted there Vice-Kapellmeistein in 1787 and Kapellmeister in 1798, a title he kept for the rest of his life. The emphasis of his oeuvre lies in his operas, which met with equally resounding success outside Munich: in Venice, Naples, London, Paris, Budapest, Warsaw, St. Petersburg and Moscow. Among these are a number of highly original works which as precursors of German romantic opera already show signs of Carl Maria von Weber and Louis Spohr.
Apart from opera Peter von Winter wrote mainly church music, but also chamber music and orchestral works, such as the first symphony which includes a choir and can be regarded as a forerunner of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, or the Sinfonia concertante with its unusual orchestration, here published for the first time. (from Album Notes by Dr.Hans Oskar Koch and from Wikipedia)