Mozart: Harmoniemusik From Mozart's Favourite Operas
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In the eighteenth century it was common practice to hear excerpts from the public's favourite operas and ballets, their most loved arias performed in transcriptions usually for wind sextet, or some- times a wind octet, both occassionally with an additional bass instrument. This Harmoniemusik was all the rage in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, most intensely from 1780s – 1820s, particularly in Vienna but also in Prague and Budapest. This CD features Harmoniemusik of some of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's most loved arias from his operas 'La Clemenza di Tito', 'Don Giovanni' and 'Le nozze di Figaro'. The transcriptions were made by Georg Kaspar Sartorius (1754-1809). Needless to say, these particular transcriptions have their own texture and flavour that is apart from the original. What they offer still, are a representa- tion of the bright, varied, virtuosic, melodious and grand music found in these operas reflected through the seductive timbres of clarinets, horns and bassoons, grounded and infused by the warmth of a contra-bass. And still imbued with all the essential brilliance of the original Mozart works. The natural vocal qualities of wind instruments in this grouping lend themselves perfectly to the emotionally charged and human voice Mozart was portraying.
Tracklisting
Shunske Sato & Shuann Chai
Ksenia Kouzmenko
Folke Nauta, Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer, Prisma String Trio
Shuann Chai
Pauline Oostenrijk & Enno Voorhorst
Folke Nauta, Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer, Prisma String Trio
The Hague String Trio
Enno Voorhorst
Les Gouts-Authentiques; Jan de Vlieger
Vladimir Spivakov; Sergej Bezrodny; Alexander Malter; Dietmar Schwalke
University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble; Doug Perkins
PETER DONOHOE
Yo-Yo Ma
Yarno Missiaen; Bart Naessens
Vladimir Feltsman
True Concord Voices and Orchestra; Susanna Phillips; Tucson Girls Chorus; Eric Holtan; Marcella Mol