Release Date: 01 April 2018
Label: Bis / BIS Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7318599922942
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Description
Following their 11-disc cycle of Mozart’s piano concertos recorded with Ronald Brautigam, Die KölnerAkademieand Michael Alexander Willensin 2017 released a disc with two of Mozart’s best-loved serenades: the PosthornSerenadeand EinekleineNachtmusik. The result was warmly received, for instance in the French magazine Classicawhere it was described as ‘a truly attractive disc to chase away the gloom’ and on MusicWeb-International.com: ‘Die KölnerAkademie… demonstrate once again that they are amongst the best groups in the world of period performance’. Joined by the tenor John Heuzenroederand the male voices of the KölnerAkademieChoir, the team has now recorded the music that Mozart wrote for performance at Masonic gatherings. Mozart was himself a Mason during the last seven years of his life, and composed a number of songs and cantatas for various occasions. Best-known is probably the Masonic Funeral Music, K 477, heard here in a version –‘Meistermusik’ –devised by the Mozart scholar Philippe Autexierin an attempt to reconstruct the original performance of the piece. Also included are the four orchestral interludes to the play Thamos, Königin Ägypten, fine examples of Mozart’s music in the ‘Sturm und Drang’ tradition. Thamoswas written by the poet and Mason Tobias von Gebler, and parallels have frequently been drawn between it and the more overtly Masonic Magic Flute.
Tracklisting
Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire; Sascha Goetzel
Oliver Barlow; Arlo Murray; Sergej Merkusjev; Joonas Ahonen; Barbara Kozelj; London Philharmonic Or
Masaaki Suzuki
Miklos Spanyi
Trio Boccherini
Masato Suzuki
Masaaki Suzuki; Masato Suzuki
Masaaki Suzuki
