Release Date: 30 April 2000
Label: Marco Polo
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4891030233560
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Romantic Wind Music
Description
FranzSchubert (1797-1828) WindOctet in F Major, D. 72 CarlMaria von Weber (1786-1826) Adagio& Rondo for two clarinets, two French horns & two bassoons FranzLachner (1803-1890) Octetin B Flat Major, Op. 156 Schubert'sF major Octet survives only in fragmentary form, augmented for practical use bythe Franciscan musicologist Father Reinhard van Hoorickx with the addition of afirst and second movement, later revised by Christopher Weait for his 1982edition. Bars 90 to 189, from the development section of the first movement,survive, and from this bars 10 to 89 were restored. The first nine bars wereadded, drawing on other passages in the movement and the section marked"Trompeten" in the Collected Edition version of the Piano Duet Fantasia,D. 1. The second movement is an arrangement of a sketch on the obverse of theautograph of Der Graf von Habsburg, D. 990, which bears the title KaiserMaximilian auf der Martinswand in Tirol, 1490. This sketch is scored for piano,but was thought by Father van Hoorickx to be characteristeic of a compositionfor wind instruments. This was later found to be a sketch for a song, publishedin 1853 by Ferdinand Schubert as his own work. Christopher Weait adds thatfragments of a second minuet survive, presumably, because of the key andscoring, intended as part of the F major Octet. He found few changes necessaryin the first movement devised by Father van Hoorickx, but made more substantialchanges in the second movement. The third and fourth movements remain in theiroriginal form. TheOctet was started by Schubert some time in or before 1813, the year in which heleft the Kaiserlich-Königliches Stadtkonvikt, where he had been a pupil, and ata time when he was still taking lessons from the Court Composer Salieri. Thesame year brought his father's remarriage, after the death of the composer'smother in 1812, and the composition of music for the family string quartet. Theautograph of the Wind Sextet, bearing the stamp of the manuscript collectorCharles Malherbe, survives in the Paris Bibliothèque Nationale. It carries thesignature of Weber and the date for the Rondo of 24th June 1808, inLudwigsburg. The Adagio is dated 6th July of the same year. The Rondoreappeared later in an abridged form as part of the incidental music for thetragedy Henry IV in 1818 and again in 1825 as a pas de cinq for the Berlinperformance of the opera Euryanthe. In1808 Weber found himself in the employrnent of Duke Ludwig of Württemberg,entrusted with the control of the impecunious Duke's finances and an unpopularemissary to the King, the Duke's brother and son-in-law of George III ofEngland, when money was needed. Weber was joined by his father in 1809 and wasdismissed into ignominious and perpetual exile from the kingdom after thelatter had misappropriated money entrusted to Weber in the pursuance of hisduties. Departure from Ludwigsburg allowed him to enjoy a much more successfulmusical career than might o
Tracklisting
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Wong On-Yuen/Hk Po/Wing-Sie
Wexford Opera
Vlach Quartet Prague
Various Artists
Tokyo Po/Kek-Tijang
The red Lantern occompanied by
Ten Classics for Chinese Bowed
David Darling
Various
Trio con Brio Copenhagen
Tagliaferri/Sciddurlo
Swr So Baden Freiburg
Seung-Yeun Huh
Oxford Girls Choir/Skinner
Monks Of Solesmes
