Release Date: 01 January 2002
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571172880
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
In 1932 Sacheverell Sitwell wrote 'No composer has ever understood the qualities of individual instruments as did Mozart ... with the bassoon, it is like a Sea-god speaking'. And yet Mozart was just eighteen years of age when he wrote this highly imaginative concerto, and it is the only one of three he composed for bassoon to survive. M. Haydn's Concertino further explores the instrument's lyrical qualities, and Stamitz displays a gift for melodic charm and inventiveness, of which his Concerto in F major is a good example, relying more on melody than virtuosic display. Weber's Op 35 began life as a viola solo with orchestra and is Hungarian in flavour, and his Concerto in F major is unerringly cheerful throughout.
This highly enjoyable disc ebbs and flows through a medley of melodies, interspersed with moments of calm tranquility and utmost beauty, giving Laurence Perkins the opportunity to prove he is master of the Sea-God of the instrument world.
Tracklisting
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Steven Osborne
Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Steven Isserlis, Philharmonia Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi
Stephen Hough; The Halle; Mark Elder
Nicky Spence; Julius Drake
The Orlando Consort
Alina Ibragimova, Cedric Tiberghien
Various artists
Alexander Lonquich; Munchener Kammerorchester; Daniel Giglberger
Gidon Kremer; Keith Jarrett; Tatjana Grindenko; Staatsorchester Stuttgart; The 12 Cellists of the B
Guido Mancusi, Budafok Dohnanyi Orchestra
Das Klarinettenduo, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrucken Kaierslau
Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Stephen Hough; The Halle; Mark Elder
Hans-Jurg Strub; Wurttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen; Christian Erny
