Ensemble Berlin | Christoph Hartmann

Ensemble Berlin: Weber, Pasculli & Beethoven

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Label: Phil.Harmonie
UPC: 4250317416124
Catnr: PHIL 06012
Release date: 05 November 2021
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Phil.Harmonie
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4250317416124
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PHIL 06012
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05 November 2021
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With "Virtuoso" the BERLIN ENSEMBLE is presenting its second CD on Philharmonie after Ravel & Mussorgsky. In 1999 musician friends of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra founded a festival of chamber music, the Landsberger Sommermusiken. Afterwards the musicians decided to continue playing chamber music together and that was the birth of the Berlin Ensemble. Meanwhile the ensemble has earned an excellent reputation on the international concert stage. They played concerts in Japan, China, Brazil, the USA, Italy, Austria, the UK, Iceland and Spain. The Ensembles' instrumentation of oboe, bassoon and string quintet offers an interesting mixture of wind and string instruments. They perform original compositions as well as adaptations. Thanks to the collaboration with oboist and arrangeur Wolfgang Renz a whole series of musical jewels has been created. This recording contains two adaptations of him. In addition to their playing in the orchestra, the festival Landsberger Sommermusiken is a constant source of inspiration to the Ensemble Berlin. Here is the place for both: improvement and experiment. The BERLIN ENSEMBLE was quite evidently really enjoying the music they were playing in concerts and recordings. You can even hear it! Listen!
Das ENSEMBLE BERLIN gründete sich im Jahr 2000 aus dem Ensemble der Landsberger Sommermusiken. Jedes Jahr im Juli spielt es auf seinem Festival. Der achte Mann des Septetts ENSEMBLE BERLIN ist der Arrangeur Wolfgang Renz. Schon auf der ersten Einspielung für Philharmonie bearbeitete Renz Maurice Ravels Titel und Modest Mussorgski 'Bilder einer Ausstellung'. Auf dem hier vorliegenden Album 'Virtuoso' nimmt er sich Carl Maria von Weber vor. Das Septett e-moll für Oboe, Fagott, zwei Violinen, Viola, Cello und Kontrabass basiert auf Webers später 4. Klaviersonate Opus 70, entstanden 1822, und hat eine lyrische und melancholische Grundstimmung. Sowohl Haupt- wie Seitenthema des ersten Satzes sind lyrisch angelegt, lediglich in der Durchführung kommt es zu einem Ausbruch, welcher die scheinbare melancholische Idylle des Bisherigen in Frage stellt. Als zweiter Satz erscheint dann überraschenderweise das extrovertierte Scherzo. Diese Anordnung ist dramaturgisch sinnvoll, um der Verhaltenheit des ersten Satzes zu begegnen. Trotz brillanter Klarheit verlangt Weber im rastlosen Mittelteil ein 'murmurando', welches einen eigenartig diffusen Effekt erzeugt. Der langsame Satz ist ureigenster Weber: ein schlicht volksliedhafter Satz, der sparsamer gesetzt ist als alle seine Vorgänger. Das abschließende prestissimo ist ein inspirierter, geistreicher Tanz, der die elegisch-schwermütige Stimmung des ersten Satzes vergessen macht.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include nine symphonies, five piano concertos, one violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelio. Together with Mozart and Haydn, he was part of the First Viennese School.    Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and by composer and conductor Christian Gottlob...
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Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include nine symphonies, five piano concertos, one violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelio. Together with Mozart and Haydn, he was part of the First Viennese School. Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and by composer and conductor Christian Gottlob Neefe. At the age of 21 he moved to Vienna, where he began studying composition with Joseph Haydn, and gained a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. He lived in Vienna until his death. By his late 20s his hearing began to deteriorate, and by the last decade of his life he was almost totally deaf. In 1811 he gave up conducting and performing in public but continued to compose; many of his most admired works come from these last 15 years of his life.

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