Mozart, Beethoven: Quintets for Piano and Winds / Hough

Mozart, Quintets for Piano and Winds / Hough - BIS (Sweden) - BIS 1552 - 675754

Label: BIS (Sweden)
Catalog No: BIS 1552
Format: CD
Release Date: 2007-04-01
Number of Discs: 1
Running time: 1 hr.
Mono/Stereo: Stereo
UPC Code: 675754990329

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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.

"This by now traditional coupling of Mozart and Beethoven quintets for piano and winds enjoys an attractive bonus in the form of the Adagio and Rondo, where the piano stands in for the wacky original glass harmonica. The performances are beautiful... the playing really is exquisite, with the members of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet doing some amazing things to match timbres and phrasing (horn and bassoon particularly). This is no mean trick when dealing with instruments of such different character, and Stephen Hough partners the Berliners very considerately while still projecting his part with personality when Mozart and Beethoven ask him to." -Classics Today (9/10)

"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



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>Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat major, K 452
  • Performers: Walter Seyfarth (Clarinet); Henning Trog (Bassoon); Andreas Wittman (Oboe); Stephen Hough (Piano); Fergus McWilliam (French Horn)
  • Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Woodwind Quintet
  • Running Time: 24 min. 37 sec.
  • Period Time: Classical
  • Form: Chamber Music
  • Written: 1784
  • Studio/Live: Studio

>Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Adagio and Rondo for Glass Harmonica, Flute, Oboe, Viola and Cello in C minor, K 617
  • Performers: Walter Seyfarth (Clarinet); Henning Trog (Bassoon); Stephen Hough (Piano); Andreas Wittman (Oboe); Michael Hasel (Flute)
  • Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Woodwind Quintet
  • Running Time: 11 min. 21 sec.
  • Period Time: Classical
  • Form: Chamber Music
  • Written: 1791
  • Studio/Live: Studio

>Beethoven, Ludwig van : Quintet for Piano, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and Horn in E flat major, Op. 16
  • Performers: Andreas Wittman (Oboe); Stephen Hough (Piano); Fergus McWilliam (French Horn); Walter Seyfarth (Clarinet); Henning Trog (Bassoon)
  • Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Woodwind Quintet
  • Running Time: 23 min. 15 sec.
  • Period Time: Classical
  • Form: Chamber Music
  • Written: 1796
  • Studio/Live: Studio