account
basket
Challenge Records Int. logo
Complete Horn Concertos
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Roger Montgomery / Margaret Faultless

Complete Horn Concertos

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212034521
Catnr: SIGCD 345
Release date: 30 January 2014
Buy
1 CD
✓ in stock
€ 19.95
Buy
 
Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212034521
Catalogue number
SIGCD 345
Release date
30 January 2014
Album
Artist(s)
Composer(s)
EN
NL

About the album

Under the direction of Margaret Faultless the OAE shine on these new recordings of Mozart’s horn Concertos, featuring sublime performances by Roger Montgomery on the natural (valveless) horn. As well as lesser-known gems of Mozart’s horn repertoire, at the centre of the collection comes the lyrical fourth horn Concerto (K.495), featuring thrilling fanfares and brilliant dialogue between the solo instrument and orchestra.


Sublieme uitvoeringen van Mozarts Hoornconcerten op een natuurhoorn
Het Ochestra of the Age of Enlightenment straalt onder leiding van Margaret Faultless op deze prachtige opname van de Hoornconcerten van Mozart, met sublieme uitvoering van Roger Montgomery op de natuurhoorn (zonder ventielen). Het album bevat zowel minder bekende juweeltjes uit Mozarts hoornrepertoire als het bekende lyrische Vierde Hoornconcert (K 495), gekenmerkt door spannende fanfares en schitterende dialogen tussen solist en orkest. Het album wordt warm aanbevolen!

Mozart componeerde zijn hoornconcerten tijdens de laatste tien jaar van zijn leven in Wenen. Minstens vier van hen werden geschreven voor zijn jeugdvriend, de virtuoze Joseph Leitgeb. Hij was een van de vooraanstaande blazers van zijn tijd en bespeelde de ventielloze Waldhorn, een verfijnde afstammeling van de jachthoorn. De rechterhand kon in de beker van de hoorn geplaatst worden om een noot te verlagen, waardoor de zoetvloeiende noten uit de lagere registers geproduceerd konden worden. Montgomery past de techniek ook in deze opnames toe.

Naast de werken voor Leitgeb bevat het album ook reconstructies van Stephen Roberts van twee eerdere hoornwerken van Mozart: het zogenaamde ‘Nulde Hoornconcert’, gecomponeerd voordat Mozart in Wenen aankwam, en een schitterend Rondeau. Van het eerste werk ontbreken nog acht of negen maten van de hoornpartij. Het laatste is in zijn volledigheid hersteld.

Composer(s)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose actual name is Joannes Chrysotomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a composer, pianist, violinist and conductor from the classical period, born in Salzburg. Mozart was a child prodigy. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. Along with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, Mozart is considered to be one of the most influential composers of all of music's history. Within the classical tradition, he was able to develop new musical concepts which left an everlasting impression on all the composers that came after him. Together with Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven he is part of the First Viennese School.  At 17, Mozart was engaged as...
more

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose actual name is Joannes Chrysotomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a composer, pianist, violinist and conductor from the classical period, born in Salzburg. Mozart was a child prodigy. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. Along with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, Mozart is considered to be one of the most influential composers of all of music's history. Within the classical tradition, he was able to develop new musical concepts which left an everlasting impression on all the composers that came after him. Together with Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven he is part of the First Viennese School. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position. From 1763 he traveled with his family through all of Europe for three years and from 1769 he traveled to Italy and France with his father Leopold after which he took residence in Paris. On July 3rd, 1778, his mother passed away and after a short stay in Munich with the Weber family, his father urged him to return to Salzburg, where he was once again hired by the Bishop. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death.


less

Press

Play album Play album

You might also like..

Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven Sonatas 6, 1 and 8
Viktoria Mullova
Ludwig van Beethoven
Pastoral 21
Gabriel Prokofiev
Various composers
Sturm und Drang, Vol. 3
The Mozartists
Joseph Haydn
Haydn Keyboard Works, Vol. 1
Peter Donohoe
Various composers
Sturm und Drang Vol. 2
The Mozartists
Various composers
Sturm und Drang Vol. 1
The Mozartists
Various composers
The Divine Muse
Mary Bevan & Joseph Middleton
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Apollo et Hyacinthus
The Mozartists
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Phibbs
Phibbs and Mozart: Clarinet Concertos
Mark van de Wiel
Various composers
Fuck Digital (vinyl)
James Rhodes
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carl Maria von Weber
Mozart & Weber Quintets
Julian Bliss | Carducci String Quartet
Various composers
Resilience
Calidore Quartet