Release Date: 22 March 2024
Label: MDG
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 760623231020
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
The world premiere recording of Louis Francois Dauprat's "Grand Sextuor" for horn sextet, a precious early-Romantic treasure with an unprecedented wealth of harmonic sophistication, great virtuosity and exquisite cantabile qualities. Performed with exuberant musicality by the Detmold Horn Players and captured in all its vibrancy and clarity by MDG's original recording technique, it retains its unrivalled position as a benchmark achievement.
Dauprat can be regarded as the most important horn player in Napoleonic France and a pioneer of the Parisian horn tradition. The richness of his compositional ideas often led beyond the normal limits of instrumental possibilities to the outer reaches of his own eminent virtuosity. This virtuosity, which even today is almost without equal, lifts his compositions from the sphere of trivial serenade music into the realm of serious chamber music.
"Grand Sextuor" is expressly dedicated "a son camerades", which would have invariably been for Dauprat's students with exclusively didactic intentions. He played and taught natural horn only, and this work was originally written for horns in different tunings. In Dauprat's time, a selection of unwieldy tuning crooks had to be used for this purpose.
The Detmold Horn Players were an ensemble within the internationally renowned horn class of Professor Michael Holtzel at the University of Music in Detmold, Germany. In the spirit of Dauprat, Holtzel moulded entire generations of horn players. Here he performs the work he rediscovered, together with his students, as Dauprat would have done 150 years previously.
"The Sextet is an outstanding, possibly unique work, and this ensemble... have superb intonation and expressiveness." - MusicWeb International
"This horn playing from Michael Holtzel and his Detmold Horn Players is immaculate. Virtuosity in every register, impeccable intonation, Holtzel himself floating like an acrobat high in the roof of the circus tent. " - Brass Bulletin
Tracklisting
Andrzej Szadejko, Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett, Cracow Singers
Lea Suter
Wolfgang Sawallisch, Leopolder-Quartett, Munchner Klaviertrio
Various Artists
Holger Falk, Steffen Schleiermacher
Leipzig String Quartet
Chimaera Trio
Consort of Musicke, Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley
The Counterpoints
Narratio Quartet
Danbi Um; Juho Pohjonen
Engegard Quartet, NyNorsk Messingkvintett
Flute Alors
Louise Bessette
Jonas Batstrand, Jorn Fossheim
Les Connivences Sonores: Odile Renault; Elodie Reibaud
