Alfredo Bernardini / Zefiro -Harmoniemusik -Arcana CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 103 "Parthia"

01. "I. Allegro"

02. "II. Andante"

03. "III. Menuetto - Trio"

04. "IV. Finale (Presto)"

05. "Variations on "L? ci darem la mano", WoO 28"

06. "March for Military Band, WoO 20"
Wind Quintet in E-Flat Major, Hess 19

07. "I. [Allegro] (fragment)"

08. "II. Adagio mesto"

09. "III. Menuetto (Allegretto) (Fragment)"
Trio in C major, Op.87

10. "I. Allegro"

11. "II. Adagio cantabile"

12. "III. Menuetto (Allegro molto - Scherzo) - Trio"

13. "IV. Finale (Presto)"

14. "Ecossaise for Military Band, WoO 22"

15. "Polonaise in D Major, WoO 21"

16. "Rondino in E-Flat Major, WoO 25: Andante"

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Beethoven: Harmoniemusik by Zefiro, released 8 January 2021. This version of Beethoven: Harmoniemusik comes as a 1xCD. -

Ludwig van Beethoven's devotion to wind musical instruments dates already from his young life in Bonn, as proved from the correspondence between his teacher Josef Haydn and the Elector of Bonn Maximilian Franz: here the composition of his Parthia dans un concert, or wind Octet op. 103 is mentioned as a work written before his arrival in Vienna and therefore as the earliest piece he wrote for winds. The remarkable Rondino for the same instruments, using the recently invented mutes for the horns, might have been part of the same Parthia in an earlier version. Once in Vienna, Beethoven was impressed by an ensemble consisting of just 2 oboes and cor anglais and wrote for them the extended and virtuosic Terzetto op. 87 in 1794 and the Variations on Mozart's Don Giovanni in 1796. Also from 1796, a quintet with the unusual scoring of one oboe, three horns and bassoon survives incomplete. The picture of Beethoven's output for winds wouldn't be complete without his military music, commissioned around the year 1810. According to the Austrian tradition, with remote Turkish influence- the so-called janissary music- the scoring here includes also trumpets, contrabassoon and a rich variety of percussion instruments.

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A901

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