Notes and Editorial Reviews
Ladies in rustling gowns and gentlemen in their Sunday best gathered to experience a musical morning's entertainment, listening to a varied program of pieces by Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Clara Wieck, Bernhard Heinrich Romberg and others. Not only was the selection of the pieces quite diverse for a post-church Sunday morning, but also the choice of instruments was often very colorful, including piano, strings, guitar, clarinet, vocals, flute and even glass harmonica plus several small oddities like the Csákány (a walking stick flute) or the Orphica, a portable little keyboard that could nevertheless provide an ideal vocal accompaniment. Many of these Romantic era original instruments are still in the collection of Leipzig's Musical
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Instrument Museum. You can now hear them on this release in modern recorded sound, which brings you a vivid impression of those Sunday musical matinees from Mendelssohn's time. For any more accuracy you need only add your own rustling gowns and fancy Sunday suit. It was Sunday's finest musical entertainment! - Raum Klang, (Translated from German) Read less
Works on This Recording
1.
An das kleine Hannchen by Carl Ferdinand Becker
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Leipziger Concert
2.
Die Göttin der Blumen by Carl Ferdinand Becker
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Leipziger Concert
3.
Motiv aus der Ouverture 'Der Freischutz' nach Weber by Anton Diabelli
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Leipziger Concert
4.
Fantasiestücke (4) for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 43: no 2, Allegro Vivace by Niels Gade
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Leipziger Concert
Period: Romantic
Written: by 1864; Denmark
5.
Fantasiestücke (4) for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 43: no 1, Andantino con moto by Niels Gade
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Leipziger Concert
Period: Romantic
Written: by 1864; Denmark
6.
Variations for ophicleide & piano by Gotthelf Heinrich Kummer
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Leipziger Concert
Period: Romantic
Written: Germany
7.
Bagatelles (12) for Guitar, Op. 4: no 1, Allegretto in E major by Heinrich Marschner
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Leipziger Concert
Period: Romantic
Written: Germany
8.
Song without words for Cello and Piano in D major, Op. 109 by Felix Mendelssohn
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Leipziger Concert
Written: 1845
9.
Pieces (4) for String Quartet, Op. 81: no 1, Tema con variazioni by Felix Mendelssohn
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Leipziger Concert
Period: Romantic
Written: 1847; Germany
10.
Preludes (10) from the Well-Tempered Clavier with an Additional Cello Part, Op. 137a: Prelude no 3 by Ignaz Moscheles
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Leipziger Concert
11.
Albumblatt in E major by Bernhard Romberg
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Leipziger Concert
12.
Variationen and Rondo for harp or piano, Op. 18 by Bernhard Romberg
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Leipziger Concert
13.
Romances (3) for Oboe and Piano, Op. 94: no 1 in A minor, Nicht schnell by Robert Schumann
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Leipziger Concert
Period: Romantic
Written: 1849; Germany
14.
Adagio and Allegro for Horn/Cello and Piano in A flat major, Op. 70 by Robert Schumann
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Leipziger Concert
15.
Geistervariationen in E flat major WoO 24 for glass harmonica: Theme by Robert Schumann
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Leipziger Concert
16.
Soirées musicales, Op. 6: no 4, Ballade in D minor by Clara Wieck Schumann
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Leipziger Concert
17.
Sonata for flute and piano in G major: Adagio by Johann Georg Tromlitz
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Leipziger Concert
18.
Der arme Minnesänge by Carl Maria von Weber
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Leipziger Concert
Period: Romantic
Written: Germany
19.
Mein Schicksal by Carl Maria von Weber
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Leipziger Concert
Period: Romantic
Written: Germany
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