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Salzburg Mozartwoche (4) - Baborák Ensemble: Mozart, Reicha, and Michael Haydn, 29 January 2024
Grosser Saal, MozarteumMozart, arr. Radek Baborák: Horn Concerto no.4 in E-flat major, KV 495 Anton Reicha: Quintet for horn, string quartet, and double bass in E major, op.106 Michael Haydn: Horn Concerto in D major, MH 134: ‘Larghetto’ and Allegro ma non troppo’ Mozart, completed Süssmayr (ed. Baborák): Rondo for horn quintet in D major, KV 514 Mozart: Horn Quintet in E-flat major, KV 407 Radek Baborák (horn)Milan Al-Ashhab, (violin)Martina Bačová (violin, viola)Karel Untermüller (viola)Hana Baboráková (cello)David Pavelka (double bass)Image: Wolfgang Lienbacher Not very often does one have opportunity to hear a chamber concert led by a horn player. Still less will it be by one of the distinction of Radek Baborák. Still less than that will the rest of the ensemble be of the distinction of the players Baborák brought together for this, the fourth of my Mozartwoche performances this year. Mixing the familiar and the considerably less so, […]
2022-09-28 04:00:00
Mozart: Horn Concertos 1-4 - (Anthony Halstead, Christopher Hogwood, The Academy of Ancient Music)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-flat major, K. 447Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat major, K. 417Rondo in E-flat major, K. 371 Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat major, K. 495Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major, K. 412 Rondo in D major, K. 514 (Completed by F.X. Süssmayr)Anthony Halstead, Natural HornChristopher Hogwood, The Academy of Ancient Music(Period Instruments) Decca L'Oiseau Lyre 443 216-2 (1994)[Flac & Scans]
2021-11-10 16:18:20
The Requiem in D Minor, K 626 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was left incomplete at his death on December 5, 1791. Until the late 20th century the work was most often heard as it had been completed by Mozart’s student Franz Xaver Süssmayr. Later completions have since been offered, and the most favorably received among these is one by American musicologist Robert D. Levin. According to a contract that Mozart signed and, the requiem was commissioned by Franz, Graf (count) von Walsegg-Stuppach. The count, it seems, pretended to some compositional ability and liked to pass off the work of others
2021-08-22 19:31:00
[…] its chance to shine too. The rest, alas, was more of the same: a ‘Domine Jesu’ live from the Tokyo Olympics, a ‘Hostias’ whose inconsequentiality ought truly to have shocked anyone attentive either to words or music, and so on. There was fine conversation between the soloists in the ‘Benedictus’, though ornamentation might again usefully have been eschewed. As for the bald, unqualified assertion in the programme that the movement was written by Franz Xaver Süssmayr, I can only suggest that the person concerned actually listen to its material—and then some of Süssmayr’s own church music. After a double-speed—well, almost—‘Agnus Dei’, nothing could have saved either this disposable Requiem, or the poor souls on whose behalf it was supposedly sung. Requiem for a fashion victim, as someone once said in a different context.
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