Mozart: Haffner Serenade & Ein musikalischer Spaß

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

The Musical Joke benefits from being played ‘straight’, by and large, and it’s always a peculiar delight to hear natural horns squawking away in the ‘wrong’ key...It’s the Haffner music that... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2020 More…

Release Date: 28th Feb 2020
Catalogue No: BIS2394
Label: BIS
Length: 85 minutes

Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

Mozart: March in D, K249

Work length4:04

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Kölner Akademie
Michael Alexander Willens

Mozart: Serenade No. 7 in D major, K250 'Haffner'

Work length1:00:34

$11.05

$18.15

$24.50

Alexander Janiczek (violin)
Kölner Akademie
Michael Alexander Willens

I. Serenata

Track length9:46

$1.50

$2.60

$3.50

II. Andante

Track length8:32

$1.50

$2.60

$3.50

III. Menuetto - Trio

Track length4:02

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

IV. Rondeau

Track length8:58

$1.50

$2.60

$3.50

V. Menuetto galante - Trio

Track length5:45

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

VI. Andante

Track length7:14

$1.50

$2.60

$3.50

VII. Menuetto

Track length5:07

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

VIII. Adagio - Allegro assai

Track length11:10

$2.05

$3.85

$5.25

Mozart: Ein musikalischer Spass K522

Work length21:07

$4.00

$5.20

$7.00

Kölner Akademie
Michael Alexander Willens

I. Allegro

Track length4:32

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

II. Menuetto

Track length6:20

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

III. Andante cantabile

Track length5:29

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

IV. Presto

Track length4:46

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

About
Reviews
Explore

About

Besides an acclaimed series of recordings with Ronald Brautigam of the complete piano concertos by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Beethoven, Kölner Akademie and Michael Alexander Willens are undertaking a survey of Mozarts serenades and other incidental works. Their first disc in this series included the Posthorn Serenade and demonstrated, according to the reviewer on MusicWeb-International, that the ensemble is amongst the best groups in the world of period performance'. Since then the team has recorded works associated with the Freemasons, and here takes on one of the most famous of the serenades, the Haffner, named after Sigmund Haffner, who commissioned it for the festivities surrounding his sisters wedding in 1776. A notable feature of Mozarts serenades and the large-scale Haffner is no exception is the incorporation of virtuosic solo parts, here performed by the violinist Alexander Janiczek. On the amply-filled disc (almost 86 minutes!), the at times quite imposing serenade is followed by Mozarts Musical Joke Ein musikalischer Spaß, K522. A work in four movements, this is a delightful and very skilfully crafted parody of musical incompetence. It is written for strings and a pair of horns, and its frequent caricatures of the second-rate whether in composition or performance are brilliantly observed, by Mozart as well as the present performers.

Reviews

May 2020

The Musical Joke benefits from being played ‘straight’, by and large, and it’s always a peculiar delight to hear natural horns squawking away in the ‘wrong’ key...It’s the Haffner music that provides the greatest rewards. With only the merest hint of string insecurity at the highest extreme of the range, Michael Alexander Willens and his players demonstrate their immersion in Mozart’s idiom.

Mozart: Haffner Serenade & Ein musikalischer Spaß

SACD

Downloads

Contents

Download queue