Gran Partita by Quatuor Dialogues / Ewald Demeyere

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Quatuor Dialogues / Ewald Demeyere

Gran Partita

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Format: SACD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917269727
Catnr: CC 72697
Release date: 11 March 2016
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Label
Challenge Classics

UPC
0608917269727

Catalogue number
CC 72697

Release date
11 March 2016

""it all sounds very intimate, and as encore we got an adjustment from der hölle rache from die zauberflöte, where the hobo takes the vocal party on his account.""

klassiekezaken, 01-6-2016

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About the album

This album is an all-too-rare recording of Mozart's Gran Partita in a contemporary arrangement for fortepiano, oboe and string trio. The arrangement, made by Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, is a pure masterpiece for it's sonic effectiveness and for it's successful coherence in representing Mozart's ideas. Ewald Demeyere has taken part in many recordings and is principally interested in the influence of theories from the Baroque era and performing on period instruments.

Ongeëvenaard meesterwerk van Mozart
Dit album van Ewald Demeyere en Quatuor Dialogues bevat een zeer zeldzame opname van Mozarts "Gran Partita", gearrangeerd door Mozarts grootste bewonderaar ooit, Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke. Het is een puur meesterwerk gemaakt voor fortepiano, hobo en strijktrio en het is een prachtig eerbetoon aan Mozarts werk.

De Serenade in Bes majeur K.361/370a van Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, die beter bekend staat als de "Gran Partita", is ongetwijfeld een van de meest grootse werken voor blaasinstrumenten. Het werk bouwt voort op de Weense traditie van Harmoniemusik – muziek voor blaasensembles dat wordt opgevoerd tijdens aristocratische evenementen en banketten, voor extra glans – maar overstijgt het genre door zijn instrumentatie (twee basset-hoorns, twee hoorns en een contrabas werden toegevoegd aan het traditionele octet dat bestond uit twee hobo’s, twee klarinetten, twee hoorns en twee fagotten), zijn monumentale verhoudingen met zeven afzonderlijke delen en zijn muzikale vindingrijkheid.

Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke (1767-1822), zoon van een musicus uit Hamburg, was beroemd om zijn enorme bewondering voor Mozart. Schencke verzamelde niet alleen Mozarts werken, maar droeg ook actief bij aan de verspreiding ervan. Schwenckes arrangement is een meesterwerk van orkestratie, een trouwe en rijk gekleurde weergave van de originele partituur. Dit album zorgt ervoor dat het ongeëvenaarde meesterwerk van kamermuziek niet in de vergetelheid raakt.

Ewald Demeyere is een Belgische klavecimbelspeler en op dit album gaat hij de samenwerking aan met het ensemble Quator Dialogues. Demeyere speelt hiervoor op de pianoforte. De samenwerking heeft geresulteerd in dit prachtige album, een unieke opname van een meesterwerk van de geniale Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Mozart und das Arrangement

Die Serenade in B-Dur KV 361/370a, die sogenannte Gran Partita, von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ist ohne Zweifel eines der großartigsten Werke für Blasinstrumente. Die Gran Partita ist ebenso wie das Klarinetten-Quintett KV 581 und das Klarinettenkonzert KV 622 eng mit dem Wiener Klarienettenvirtuosen Anton Stadler verbunden, da auch die Serenade ein Auftragswerk von Stadler an Mozart gewesen ist.

Auf dieser Einspielung mit Ewald Demeyere und Quatuor DIALOGUES findet sich eine Bearbeitung des wohl größten Mozart-Bewunderers aller Zeiten: Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke (1767-1822), Sohn eines Ratmusikers aus Hamburg und Nachfolger von Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach als Stadtkantor und Musikdirektor. Er verfasste zeitlebens eine große Zahl an Transkriptionen des Mozart'schen Oeuvres unnd publizierte diese, um das Werk des Meisters einem noch größeren Publikum zugänglich zu machen. Eine durchaus gängige Praxis, um Werke vor dem Vergessen zu bewahren. So entstand auch diese Version der Serenade für Quintett mit Oboe.

Diese Einspielung fröhnt der Tradition der Arrangements. So ist es auch nicht verwunderlich, dass sie mit einer ganz speziellen Bearbeitung endet. Als "Bonus" gibt es die Rachearie aus der Zauberflöte für Oboe und Begleitung.

Artist(s)

Quatuor Dialogues

The Quatuor Dialogues was founded in 2010 by Robyn Baudhuin i.t. Manager with the ambition to the public the immense repertoire written for oboe and string trio between 1750 and 1820 ingredients. Though hardly known today, this genre formed the essence of the Chamber music written for the classical oboe, a mollusk instrument that the Baroque oboe. Countless composers from all over Europe dedicated themselves to the Oboe Quartet: w. a. Mozart, j. b. Vanhal, c. f. Abel, j. c. Bach, f. Krommer, f. Giardini, i. Pleyel, l. Massonneau, ... The ' gedialogeerde ' and ' concertante "quartets that they wrote, by their particular instrumentation offer an amazing rich and original sound palette. The artistic starting point of the ensemble wants to both original and authentic. The repertoire is fully accessed from manuscripts and old editions, analyzed from the point of view of eighteenth-century documents and tracts, and played on period instruments. The members of the Quatuor Dialogues studied at Royal Conservatory of Brussels. Since the end of their study, they focused on the historical performance practice and grant their collaboration with the most renowned ensembles in this area, both in Belgium and abroad (La Petite Bande, Ricercar Consort, Bach Concentus, Anima Eterna, Il Fondamento, les Muffatti, les Agrémens, Il Gardellino, Le Parlement de

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Ewald Demeyere (fortepiano)

Harpsichordist Ewald Demeyere believes that conveying the emotional content of a composition is a musician’s most important task. Since each period has its specifics, however, he intends to combine emotion with historical keyboard technique and performance practice in such a way as to obtain as captivating an interpretation as possible. Demeyere’s research, which, among others, resulted in a PhD and the publication of a book Johann Sebastian Bach’s Art of Fugue—Performance Practice Based on German Eighteenth-Century Theory (2013), is never an end in itself but always has to serve the eloquence of the musical performance. Demeyere has taken part in more than 100 CD recordings, many of which with chamber and solo repertoire. As a player of chamber music, Demeyere works with, amongst others, Barthold Kuijken and Vinciane Baudhuin (Duo Capricornus) . He was a jury member for the Paola Bernardi International Harpsichord Competition in 2013 in Bologna. In 2018, he won the CPEB:CW Counterpoint Contest, with a unanimous verdict from the jury that his Ricercar a 5 per Cembalo was “the most accomplished and natural in its flow”.

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Vinciane Baudhuin (oboe)

Vinciane Baudhuin behaalde achtereenvolgens de eerste prijzen kamermuziek en engelse hoorn, alsook het hogere diploma hobo en een meestergraad barokhobo in de klas van Paul Dombrecht aan het Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel. Daarna perfectioneerde ze zich voor barokhobo bij Ku Ebbinge aan het Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag (NL). Vinciane Baudhuin is werkzaam als solist, op het domein van kamermuziek en orkest. Samen met Ewald Demeyere vormt ze het Duo Capricornus. Ze is vast lid van Bach Concentus (Ewald Demeyere), La Petite Bande (Sigiswald Kuijken) en Il Fondamento (Paul Dombrecht). Daarnaast verleent ze regelmatig haar medewerking aan Octophoros (Paul Dombrecht), aan Les Muffati (Peter Van Heyghen), aan Les Agrémens (Guy Van Waas) en aan Il Complesso Barocco (Alan Curtis). In 2010 richtte ze het Quatuor...

Vinciane Baudhuin behaalde achtereenvolgens de eerste prijzen kamermuziek en engelse hoorn, alsook het hogere diploma hobo en een meestergraad barokhobo in de klas van Paul Dombrecht aan het Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel. Daarna perfectioneerde ze zich voor barokhobo bij Ku Ebbinge aan het Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag (NL).
Vinciane Baudhuin is werkzaam als solist, op het domein van kamermuziek en orkest. Samen met Ewald Demeyere vormt ze het Duo Capricornus. Ze is vast lid van Bach Concentus (Ewald Demeyere), La Petite Bande (Sigiswald Kuijken) en Il Fondamento (Paul Dombrecht). Daarnaast verleent ze regelmatig haar medewerking aan Octophoros (Paul Dombrecht), aan Les Muffati (Peter Van Heyghen), aan Les Agrémens (Guy Van Waas) en aan Il Complesso Barocco (Alan Curtis).
In 2010 richtte ze het Quatuor DIALOGUES op dat zich wijdt aan het immense repertoire geschreven in de tweede helft van de 18de eeuw voor hobo en strijktrio.
Vinciane Baudhuin is docent kamermuziek aan de koninklijke conservatoria van Bergen (ARTS2) en Brussel, en heeft een klas barokhobo en moderne hobo aan de academie van Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe.

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Annelies Decock (violin)

Anne Davies studied modern violin at the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp, where she graduated in the class of Johannes leertouwer. After this training she drew to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to continue her studies at Marc Destrubé, which her both modern violin as taught Baroque violin at the University of British Columbia. There, she obtained a master's Degree in 2004. Back in Belgium she was in september 2004 student of Sigiswald Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels, where her the price Ingeborg Köberle for most meritorious student was awarded. She graduated in 2007 with the highest result ever awarded in the classroom Baroque violin and has since been a much sought-after musician in orchestras and ensembles such as La Petite Bande, Ricercar Consort, Huelgas ensemble, Bach Concentus, Collegium Vocale, Anima Eterna, Il Gardellino, Capriola, Elbipolis, di Goia, Pygmalion, Les Abbagliati, Bach Plus and many other. She has worked on numerous CD-recordings. In september 2010 she was a guest in the Klara Festival in Brussels with a solo programme in collaboration with harpsichordist Jason N. She is first violinist of the Quatuor Dialogues. In the summer of 2013, she was a guest in the BBC Proms series in London with the Huelgas Ensemble. In July 2014 she took a cd with Chamber music by Anthony Poole, Thomas Baeté o.l.v. with transport Publique, which later this year will come true, and they also did a recording of Flemish Chamber music with Ensemble Apotheosis, o.l.v. Korneel Badger. Along with her husband, she founded the Baroque ensemble Arcus Coloratus. She gives private instruction in violin and Baroque violin, and recently the webshop ' Miss A & Mister J started including homemade instruments covers and baby clothes.

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Mika Akiha (viola)

Mika Akiha began to study the violin at the age of four. She studied violin at the Toho Gakuen High School and the College of Music in Tokyo. When she was seventeen, she began to study the Baroque violin with Natsumi Wakamatsu. after graduating the Toho Gakuen College of Music in Tokyo, she went to Belgium to study with Sigiswald Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, and passed her final exam for baroque violin and baroque viola with “grande distinction” mention. She has given concerts in Europe, USA and Japan with Early Music groups such as Les Agremens, Il Gardellino, La Petite Bande, Il Fondamento, Le Concert Lorrain, Pygmalion, Ricercar consort, and Bach Collegium Japan, etc. and recorded...

She has given concerts in Europe, USA and Japan with Early Music groups such as Les Agremens, Il Gardellino, La Petite Bande, Il Fondamento, Le Concert Lorrain, Pygmalion, Ricercar consort, and Bach Collegium Japan, etc. and recorded several times for labels such as Klara, ACCENT, BIS, RICERCAR, Avex Classics, Challenge, ALM records, DENON et Mirare. etc.

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Ronan Kernoa (cello)

Ronan Kernoa at the Conservatoire National de Région de Rouen obtained first prizes in cello and chamber music with unanimity and congratulations of the jury. He went on to specialize in the historical string instruments during internships at Claire Giardelli and Jaap ter Linden. After his studies in Paris with Philippe Fakir (17th arr.), he was admitted in the class of Alain Gervreau at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where he obtained a Master baroque cello. He currently studies viola da gamba at Thomas Baeté and Wieland Kuijken. He is regularly invited as a continuo player to participate in productions of several Belgian and foreign ensembles such as La Petite Bande, Bach Concentus, Les Muffatti, Les Agremens, Il Gardellino, Il Fondamento,...

Ronan Kernoa at the Conservatoire National de Région de Rouen obtained first prizes in cello and chamber music with unanimity and congratulations of the jury. He went on to specialize in the historical string instruments during internships at Claire Giardelli and Jaap ter Linden. After his studies in Paris with Philippe Fakir (17th arr.), he was admitted in the class of Alain Gervreau at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where he obtained a Master baroque cello. He currently studies viola da gamba at Thomas Baeté and Wieland Kuijken.
He is regularly invited as a continuo player to participate in productions of several Belgian and foreign ensembles such as La Petite Bande, Bach Concentus, Les Muffatti, Les Agremens, Il Gardellino, Il Fondamento, Anima Eterna, Le Parlement de Musique, Akademia ... led by, among others, Jos Van Immerseel, Marcel Ponseele, Peter Venkataraman, Gabriel Garrido, Barthold and Sigiswald Kuijken ... With these ensembles he made several recordings for Sony Classical, Vivarte, K 617, Ricercar, Accent, Avanti Classic, Challenge Records.

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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 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.

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"it all sounds very intimate, and as encore we got an adjustment from der hölle rache from die zauberflöte, where the hobo takes the vocal party on his account."
klassiekezaken, 01-6-2016

"[...] A new option for Mozarts Gran partita. [...]"
de gelderlander, 07-5-2016

"The common breeding ground of these players guarantees perfection in their musical team work."
HRAudio, 21-3-2016