Release Date: 05 January 2003
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 636943480625
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: HAYDN / HUMMEL / NERUDA
Description
Trumpet ConcertosJoseph Haydn (1732-1809): Concerto in E flat majorJohann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837): Concerto in E major Jan Krˇtitel Jirˇi (Johann Baptist Georg) Neruda(c1707-c1780): Concerto in E flat majorBedrˇich Divisˇ (Friedrich Dionys) Weber (1766-1842):Variations in F majorBy 1796 Joseph Haydn was once again actively in the serviceof the Esterhazy family. The death of his old employer Prince Nikolaus I in1790 had released him from the great palace complex of Esterhaza and allowedhim two extended and highly successful visits to London. The new Prince, PaulAnton, had outlived his father by only four years and his son Prince NikolausII had followed the former in making his principal residence Eisenstadt, whereHaydn had started his career with the family in 1761. Haydn now lived for mostof the year in Vienna, moving to Eisenstadt only for a short period in thesummer, there providing a number of Mass settings, while in Vienna occupiedwith the composition of oratorios, influenced by his stay in London, and of hislast string quartets. The inspiration for the Trumpet Concerto that hecompleted in 1796 was a newly modified instrument, the keyed trumpet. Anearlier limitation of the Baroque clarino was its inability to play consecutivenotes in a lower register, confined as it was to the notes of the harmonicseries, widely spaced in the lower register and more closely adjacent in thehigher. Experiments had been made with the further development of the slidetrumpet, on the principle of the trombone, and of the technique of hand-stoppingto adjust the pitch, as with the French horn. It was, however, the invention in1793 of a more effective form of keyed trumpet by Anton Weidinger, a friend ofHaydn and a member of the Vienna court orchestra since 1792, that offered evenwider possibilities, coming after less successful experiments in Dresden in the1770s. Keys, operated by the player's left hand, were added to the instrument,covering holes which could each raise the pitch a semitone. The keyed trumpetwas later replaced by the valve trumpet of 1813 and fell into disuse. Weidingerintroduced the new instrument and Haydn's concerto to Vienna in a benefitconcert in 1800. The concerto starts with an orchestral exposition during whichthe soloist is provided the means of warming up before the solo entry with theprincipal subject, later developed, before returning in a recapitulationleading to a virtuoso cadenza. French horns, orchestral trumpets and drums arenot included in the scoring of the A flat major slow movement, with itseffective use of the lower chromatic range of the keyed trumpet. The concertoends with a brilliant rondo, witness both to Haydn's unfailing powers ofinvention and to the technical prowess of Weidinger.Johann Nepomuk Hummel was born in Pressburg, the modernBratislava, in 1778, the son of a musician. Moving with his family to Vienna atthe age of eight, he became a piano pupil of Mozart, before embarking on apublic career a
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
