Adagio 2

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Cat No: 8553841

Release Date: 28 February 2010

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 2

Barcode: 747313806270

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: ADAGIO 2

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 730099484121

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: ADAGIO 2

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More Famous Adagios The word Adagio, literally 'at ease', and then 'slow' or even 'cautious', has had various musical meanings, with eighteenth century argument as to the relative degree of slowness implied by the term. For many, including Mozart, however, Adagio was a generic word to signify a slow movement, the necessary lyrical relaxation of tension to be provided as a second or third movement in a work of three or four movements. The Baroque period provides moving examples of the slow, aria type movement, often an extended and more or less embellished melody over an accompanying texture. Georg Philipp Telemann, preferred in his time to his slightly younger contemporary Johann Sebastian Bach, had in 1721 established himself as director of music in the city churches of Hamburg, where he remained until his death in 1767, to be succeeded there by his godson Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, second son of Johann Sebastian. Telemann was prolific and versatile and his compositions included music sacred and secular, with 46 Passion settings and 1043 cantatas in addition to operas, songs and instrumental works in some abundance. His Trumpet Concerto in D major, one of 47 solo concertos for a variety of instruments, is in the expected three movement form, relaxing in its second movement into a more lyrical mood, time for the trumpeter to draw breath. Johann Sebastian Bach started his musical career as an organist, from 1708 to 1717 at the court of Duke Ernst of Weimar, moving thereafter to a position as Court Kapellmeister at Cöthen and then, in 1723, to Leipzig as Thomascantor, with responsibility for the music of the principal city churches. At Weimar Bach served as court organist and it was natural that he should at this time write a number of works for the organ. The Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major belongs to this period and reflects in its form the standard Italian solo concerto, with the Adagio forming an aria second movement. The Concerto for Violin and Oboe belongs to the period of Bach's employment at Cöthen. It was arranged, some ten years or so later, as a concerto for two harpsichords, to be played with the Leipzig University Collegium musicum, in common with other instrumental concertos of the Cöthen period. It has been re-transcribed into its original form, providing interplay between the two contrasted solo instruments for which it was originally conceived. It was said that Mozart had no great liking for the flute. Whatever his natural inclinations, he provided superb music for the instrument, notably in response to a commission arranged for him in Mannheim. In 1777, tired of the restrictions and limitations of Salzburg, where, like his father, he was in the service of the ruling Archbishop, Mozart set out to seek a better fortune elsewhere. Mannheim, the then capital of the Elector Palatine, boasted one of the finest musical establishments in Europe and
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