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Mozart Contemporaries: 18th Century Music For Bassoon / Carmen Mainer Martin
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Mozart Contemporaries: 18th Century Music For Bassoon / Carmen Mainer Martin

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Composer
DEVIENNE DURNITZ MOZART
Artist
Martin, Ara, Mur
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Feb 12, 2021
Catalog #
BRI96020
UPC
5028421960203

About

The starting-point for this unique recital is a true Mozart rarity, the Sonata for bassoon and cello K292 which Mozart wrote in 1775, pairing the bass members of string and wind families not to comic effect but rather demonstrating their expressive versatility and contrasting tone-colors, in the hands of sufficiently practiced performers; the Sonata is accessible by only the most skilled amateur performers such as its original dedicatee, the nobleman, pianist and occasional bassoonist Thaddaus Wolfgang von Dürnitz. The count’s considerable musical gifts may be judged from the teenaged Mozart’s dedication of the Piano Sonata K284 in the same year: one of the composer’s first works of absolute genius, notably in the extraordinary landscape of its long theme-and-variation finale. The bassoon-and-cello sonata may not rival K284 for lightly worn profundity, but in its Andante we may still hear the teenaged composer attaining an idiom of sublime gravity which anticipates masterpieces such as the Sinfonia Concertante K364. Rarer still on album is the creative output of Dürnitz himself, represented here by four sonatas for bassoon and keyboard from a collection of six. He evidently cultivated a particular facility at the top of the intrument’s range, notably in the elegiac introduction to Sonata No.3. Dürnitz was no dilettante musician, to judge from his ready assimilation of Classical-era convention and the kind of virtuoso writing in the quick movements that challenges conceptions of the bassoon as a sturdy accompaniment to more agile musical companions. Between these two composers in the register of fame falls the French composer Francois Devienne, four years younger than Mozart and author of six Duos Concertants Op.3 for two bassoons in around 1782; Carmen Mainer Martin presents two of them here, with the second part arranged for cello in the same disposition as Mozart’s sonata.

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro 03:45
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    03:45
    Composer
    François Devienne
    Performer
    Carmen Mainer Martin, Violeta Mur
  2. 2 II. Rondo 03:15
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Rondo
    Duration
    03:15
    Composer
    François Devienne
    Performer
    Carmen Mainer Martin, Violeta Mur
  3. 3 I. Allegro maestoso 05:07
    Track
    3
    Title
    I. Allegro maestoso
    Duration
    05:07
    Composer
    Thaddaus Wolfgang von Durnitz
    Performer
    Enrique Escartín, Carmen Mainer Martin
  4. 4 II. Rondo - Allegro 03:25
    Track
    4
    Title
    II. Rondo - Allegro
    Duration
    03:25
    Composer
    Thaddaus Wolfgang von Durnitz
    Performer
    Carmen Mainer Martin, Enrique Escartín
  5. 5 I. Allegro ma ben posato 03:38
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Allegro ma ben posato
    Duration
    03:38
    Composer
    Thaddaus Wolfgang von Durnitz
    Performer
    Carmen Mainer Martin, Enrique Escartín
  6. 6 II. Rondeaux - Allegretto 04:41
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Rondeaux - Allegretto
    Duration
    04:41
    Composer
    Thaddaus Wolfgang von Durnitz
    Performer
    Carmen Mainer Martin, Enrique Escartín
  7. 7 I. Allegro 04:08
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    François Devienne
    Performer
    Carmen Mainer Martin, Violeta Mur
  8. 8 II. Rondo 02:50
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Rondo
    Duration
    02:50
    Composer
    François Devienne
    Performer
    Carmen Mainer Martin, Violeta Mur
  9. 9 I. Allegro 03:45
    Track
    9
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    03:45
    Composer
    Thaddaus Wolfgang von Durnitz
    Performer
    Carmen Mainer Martin, Enrique Escartín
  10. 10 II. Rondo - Allegro 03:30
    Track
    10
    Title
    II. Rondo - Allegro
    Duration
    03:30
    Composer
    Thaddaus Wolfgang von Durnitz
    Performer
    Carmen Mainer Martin, Enrique Escartín
  11. 11 I. Adagio - Allegro 06:26
    Track
    11
    Title
    I. Adagio - Allegro
    Duration
    06:26
    Composer
    Thaddaus Wolfgang von Durnitz
    Performer
    Carmen Mainer Martin, Enrique Escartín
  12. 12 II. Tempo di menuetto, ma un poco allegro 03:47
    Track
    12
    Title
    II. Tempo di menuetto, ma un poco allegro
    Duration
    03:47
    Composer
    Thaddaus Wolfgang von Durnitz
    Performer
    Carmen Mainer Martin, Enrique Escartín
  13. 13 I. Allegro 03:52
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    03:52
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Carmen Mainer Martin, Violeta Mur
  14. 14 II. Andante 03:01
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    03:01
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Carmen Mainer Martin, Violeta Mur
  15. 15 III. Rondo (Allegro) 03:01
    Track
    15
    Title
    III. Rondo (Allegro)
    Duration
    03:01
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Carmen Mainer Martin, Violeta Mur