Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, K452

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Mozart: Horn Concertos Nos. 1-4 & Quintet K452

Mozart: Horn Concertos Nos. 1-4 & Quintet K452


Mozart:

Horn Concertos Nos. 1-4 (complete)

Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan

Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, K452

Colin Horsley (piano)

Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble


“self-recommending. Boyd Neel once said that Dennis was the finest Mozart player on any instrument.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition

EMI Masters - 6783282

(CD)

$10.50

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Mozart: Oboe Quartet & Horn Quintet

Mozart: Oboe Quartet & Horn Quintet

& other works


Mozart:

Oboe Quartet in F major, K370

Horn Quintet in E flat, K407

Quintet Movement in F, K580b

Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, K452


Mozart’s contribution to the repertoire of music with wind instruments is of considerable significance. Not only did he write concertos for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn, but he also made frequent use of these instruments in his chamber music. His interest in varied textures and colours led to unusual, sometimes unique, combinations of wind or wind and strings, and many of these works have become cornerstones of the repertoire.

This historically significant recording includes a single movement from a quintet never completed by Mozart before his death. It was one of only a handful of works singled out for by his wife Constanze for particular attention, whilst documenting his other fragments. The Horn Quintet was written for Joseph Leutgeb, a long-standing friend for whom Mozart also composed the four horn concertos, and shows an obvious affection for the instrument and its practitioner.

The Quartet, K370, contains a particularly lovely Adagio, only 37 bars long, but deeply expressive, and the final work here, K452 was considered by the composer himself to be the best work he had produced.

These important works could not be in more talented hands than those of The Gaudier Ensemble, who effervesce outstanding playing throughout in performances that Mozart himself would surely have been proud of. A recording to be relished with the CD player firmly on ‘continuous play’!

“Anyone interested in this particular program is unlikely to be anything but delighted with this disc” Fanfare

“Ravishingly delightful” American Record Guide

“This reissue of the Gaudier’s 2001 recording is welcome. The ensemble includes instrumentalists as expert as Douglas Boyd, Susan Tomes and Richard Hosford; they and their equally skilled colleagues revel in the opportunities Mozart lavishes on them. I can’t imagine the Oboe Quartet better done...The pearl is the piano/wind quintet.” Sunday Times, 28th August 2011

Helios - CDH55390

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Vienna Octet play Mozart, Beethoven & M. Haydn

Vienna Octet play Mozart, Beethoven & M. Haydn


Beethoven:

Quintet in E flat major for piano and winds, Op.16

Walter Panhofer (piano)

Haydn, M:

Divertimento in G major

Mozart:

Clarinet Quintet in A major, K581

rec. 1963

Alfred Boskovsky (clarinet)

Clarinet Trio in E flat major, K498 "Kegelstatt-Trio"

Alfred Boskovsky (clarinet)

Cassation in B flat major, K. 99

Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, K452

Walter Panhofer (piano)


Vienna Octet

Recording location: Sofiensaal, Vienna, Austria, October 1956 (KV 498, 452), June 1957 (Beethoven), September 1962 (M. Haydn), October 1963 (KV 581), October 1964 (KV 99)

This recording forms part of a series of 10 reissues celebrating the glorious Decca recordings from the 1950s-1970s of the Wiener Oktett (Vienna Octet), made up of key principals from the Wiener Philharmoniker and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Five titles were released in September and the remaining five are released this month.

Receiving their first international release on CD are the Mozart Clarinet Trio, his Cassation (written when the composer was a mere thirteen!), and the piano-and-wind Quintets of Mozart and Beethoven. The ‘soloists’ within the chamber ensemble – if, as such, one might identify them – are one of the Vienna Octet’s founders, Alfred Boskovsky, and the Octet’s ‘house’ pianist, Walter Panhofer. The mellow writing for the clarinet in both the Mozart Quintets was inspired by the playing of Anton Stadler. This anthology is also unique in that it affords us the only recording on which Willi Boskovsky played the viola – in the ‘Kegelstatt’ Trio. Concluding this anthology is the delightful G major Divertimento by Michael Haydn (Joseph’s younger brother). Found in the British Museum and edited by the Vienna Octet’s bassist, it was often used by the group as a concert opener.

“Boskovsky's warm-toned clarinet is a joy in Mozart's Quintet” BBC Music Magazine, January 2011 ****

“the music is entirely winning” Gramophone Magazine (Mozart Cassation)

“the performance of these Vienna players is superlative” Gramophone Magazine (Mozart Quintet)

Australian Eloquence Vienna Octet - 4802378

(CD - 2 discs)

$14.00

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The Artistry of Dennis Brain

The Artistry of Dennis Brain


Beethoven:

Horn Sonata in F major, Op. 17

with Denis Matthews (piano)

Dittersdorf:

Partita in D major: 4th movement - Minuet and Trio

ed. Haas

London Baroque Ensemble, Karl Haas

Dukas:

Villanelle

with Gerald Moore (piano)

Haydn:

Symphony No. 31 in D major ‘Horn Signal': Allegro

with Neill Sanders, Edmund Chapman, Alfred Cursue (horns) & Gareth Morris (flute)

Orchestra, Jack Westrup

Mozart:

Divertimento No. 16 In E Flat Major K289 For 2 Oboes, 2 Horns & 2 Bassoons

Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble

Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, K452

with Colin Horsley

Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble

Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, K417

Philharmonia Orchestra, Walter Susskind

Mozart, L:

Concerto for hosepipe & strings (third movement)

Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra, Norman Del Mar

Schumann:

Adagio and Allegro in A flat major, Op. 70

with Gerald Moore (piano)


The cheapest, most attractively presented and most comprehensive single disc (78 minutes) of Dennis Brain in today’s market.

Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Dittersdorf, Dukas and an excerpt from the Hoffnung Music Festival, 1956.

Newly re-mastered.

‘He was innately musical in a way which defies description or analysis. He shaped phrases with an instinctive rightness that seemed inevitable. Technical problems did not exist for him. He had tamed the most notoriously intractable of all instruments to be his obedient servant and raised it again to sing the song the sirens sang.’ Walter Legge

Regis - RRC1363

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$7.25

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Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos. 12 & 21

Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos. 12 & 21


Mozart:

Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K467 'Elvira Madigan'

Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, K452

Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K414


Decca - Originals - 4759987

(CD)

$11.25

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Dutilleux: Préludes (3), etc.

Dutilleux:

Préludes (3)

String Quartet ‘Ainsi la nuit'

Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher

Mozart:

Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, K452


A live performance recorded in the presence of Henri Dutilleux.

Erol - EROL200025

(CD)

$17.00

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Mozart & Beethoven - Quintets for Piano & Winds

Mozart & Beethoven - Quintets for Piano & Winds


Beethoven:

Quintet in E flat major for piano and winds, Op.16

Mozart:

Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, K452

Adagio and Rondo K617 arranged for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon


On this disc one of the world’s finest pianists encounters one of the world’s greatest wind quintets, performing two very special works: Mozart’s and Beethoven’s quintets for piano and winds. The unusual scoring has led these works to be performed less often than they deserve: indeed, in 1784 Mozart wrote about his work to his father Leopold stating ‘I myself consider it to be the best thing I have ever written’. Twelve years later, Beethoven composed his Quintet, which he also arranged for the standard piano quartet combination. Beethoven must have been familiar with Mozart’s work: the choice of the same key and the same formal structure (down to small details) cannot be purely coincidental.

“The combination of Stephen Hough and wind players from the BPO makes for sparkling performances of these two quintets… It is noticeable that the Berlin horn is less plummy than the Viennese, and in the slow movement of the Mozart Hough and his partners take a lighter view than their rivals, highlighting the tenderness. Hough and the Berliners also bring out the stylistic contrasts between Mozart and the youthful Beethoven, who expressly adopted the layout of the Mozart Quintet.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2007

Building a Library

Single Disc Choice - April 2007

BIS - BISCD1552

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$16.75

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Mozart: Flute Quartet No. 1 in D major, K285, etc.

Mozart:

Flute Quartet No. 1 in D major, K285

Adagio for Cor Anglais and String Trio, K580a

Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, K452

Clarinet Quintet in A major, K581


“This is a performance that can stand as a benchmark” BBC Music Magazine

“The Sheffield-based Ensemble 360 – a flexible group of up to 11 players – have been drawing enthusiastic audiences with their informal and inventive concerts, often in offbeat venues. As this attractively planned debut CD confirms, their playing is fresh and lively, free from any whiff of bland routine. The Flute Quartet, offered as an aperitif, is blithe and impish in its outer movements, delicately, coolly wistful in the Watteau-esque Adagio.
In the miraculous Piano and Wind Quintet, Ensemble 360 phrase imaginatively, delight in their quick-witted repartee, and handle the ever-shifting balances with care and finesse.
Ensemble 360 are marvellously vivid in the finale, here less gracious, more playful than usual, with the main theme's contrasts of forte and piano piquantly realised.
The unfinished Adagio, K580a, opening uncannily like the motet Ave verum corpus, was probably intended for clarinet and three bassethorns, though it sounds well enough in this (anonymous) completed version for cor anglais and strings. Best of all here is the Clarinet Quintet, performed by Matthew Hunt on the basset clarinet, with its treacly extra low notes displayed to pungent effect in, say, the Ländler-like second Trio of the Minuet. With its briskish speeds, this won't necessarily please those who like to have the Quintet's autumnal associations underlined. But the performance has a natural flow and grace allied to many sensitive touches of colour and timing. Especially appealing are the fire and tension of the first-movement development, the easy lilt of the Minuet (wittily embellished on its final repeat) and the finale's gleeful sense of fun, stilled in the haunting A minor variation, where the solo viola makes delicately expressive use of portamento. The rollicking send-off sets the seal on a touching and thoroughly delightful performance.”
Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010

BBC Music Magazine

Chamber Choice - January 2007

ASV Gold - GLD4022

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$11.50

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Mozart: Horn Concertos Nos. 1-4 & Quintet K452

Mozart: Horn Concertos Nos. 1-4 & Quintet K452


Mozart:

Horn Concertos Nos. 1-4 (complete)

Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, K452

Colin Horsley & Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble


(recorded 1953 & 1954)

“self-recommending. Boyd Neel once said that Dennis was the finest Mozart player on any instrument.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition

EMI Historical - 3386032

(CD)

$7.25

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Chamber Music Favourites

Chamber Music Favourites


Haydn:

String Quartet, Op. 64 No. 5 in D major 'The Lark'

Mozart:

Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, K452

with Jeno Jando (piano)

Schumann:

Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44

with Jeno Jando (piano)


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Naxos - 8554429

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