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Weber, Krommer, Baermann: Clarinet Quintets (Erich Hoeprich, London Haydn Quartet)
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)Clarinet Quintet in B-flat major, Op. 34, J. 182 Heinrich Baermann (1784-1847)Clarinet Quintet No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 23 - II. Adagio Franz Krommer (1759-1811)Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat Major, Op. 95Erich Hoeprich, London Haydn Quartet(Period Instruments)Glossa GCD 920610 (2020)[Flac & Scans]
2021-05-24 12:14:14
A Life On-Line: reinventing Machaut, exploring harmoniemusik and Ethel Smyth's teacher
Machaut: How can I forget? - English Touring Opera (Image taken from live stream) This was a week when we cautiously welcomed audiences back to concert halls and opera houses. Whilst we have caught some live performances, we have also been catching up on-line, with Harmoniemusik from the Academy of Ancient Music, Machaut from English Touring Opera, music by Ethel Smyth's from Opera North and a viola da gamba trip up a mountain with NextUs. The Academy of Ancient Music's concert from West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge, Harmoniemusik: From field to table was part of AAM's on-line offering but also had a live audience. The programme was directed from bassoon by Peter Whelan, and featured four works by Mozart, Beethoven and Franz Krommer which showed how the style of harmoniemusik was adopted by composers. Mozart wrote a number of works for wind ensemble which come under the banner of […]
2020-12-18 07:44:09
Beethoven transformed: the second volume of Boxwood & Brass' series brings three bravura Harmoniemusik arrangements created in Beethoven's Vienna
[…] Brass, the second of the period wind ensemble's Beethoven transformed series on Resonus, the ensemble plays contemporary arrangements of Beethoven's Egmont Overture Op. 84, Sonate Pathetique Op.13 and Symphony No. 7 Op. 92. Harmoniemusik is often dismissed as arrangements of operas and popular tunes designed for background music and outdoor events. But the high artistic standards of some of these ensembles inspired music specially written for them such as Mozart's serenades and Franz Krommer's partitas. Publishers, of course, got in on the act too and whilst a lot of what was issued was popular recycling, there was other challenging repertoire. Sigmund Anton Steiner Sigmund Anton Steiner (1773-1838) was a friend of Beethoven's and the proprietor of a publishing house the Chemische Drückerei (the chemical printworks, so-called because it used the new technique of lithography for printing). The Chemische Drückeri's production of Harmoniemusik included a […]
2020-08-17 02:12:39
Franz Krommer was such a fine composer–perhaps not the most original voice of his age (1759-1831), but a really good musician who could produce characterful ideas and treat them imaginatively. Both of these symphonies are relatively late works. They have appealing tunes, a wide range of moods, bracing rhythms, and confident, colorful scoring. Listen to […]
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