SACDs - Haydn

Gansch studied the trumpet from the age of ten and is a trumpet professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. He gives solo concerts and master classes in Austria and abroad. His CD Trumpet Concertos received the German Record Critics’ prize in 1995.

It’s always a very special musical event when two Bavarian Broadcasting ensembles join forces on stage – as in this case with the Chor and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. In the magnificent setting of Waldsassen Abbey Basilica in the Upper Palatinate, Mariss Jansons conducted an all-Haydn program in October of 2008: Haydn’s Harmony Mass ranks as one of the six great masses of his late creative period, composed on commission from Prince Esterházy. Its name refers to the unusually large complement of wind instruments, an orchestration that was only possible for the final great masses after the Josephinist restrictions for church music were lifted, and because, from 1792 on, Haydn had a larger instrumental ensemble at his disposal. Timpani and trumpets were used in the Symphony in G major, Hob. I:88, but not, as might be expected, in the opening allegro but rather – in contrast to expectations in those days – not until the slow second movement.

Rachel Podger’s first recording with orchestra since the landmark Gramophone Award winning disc of Vivaldi’s La Stravaganza.

Follows eight volumes of the Award Winning Mozart Violin Sonatas edition.

Rachel Podger challenges Pavlo Beznosiuk.

Soloists play on real ‘Strads’.

Hadyn was convinced that the seven sonatas, combined with the contemplation of the text would create “the most profound impression in the soul” of even the most musically inexperienced listener. The Scaramouche Quartett, founded in 2008, dedicate itself to performing works of the Viennese Classical period with a sound characteristic of that era. To this end they perform on a collection of rare period instruments that are tuned to the customary “classical” tuning of around 1800.