Joseph Haydn – If Haydn Had Written For Oboe, vol. 2 – Alexei Utkin, Hermitage Chamber Orchestra (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 00:51:43 minutes | 993 MB | Genre: Classical
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Recorded: 12-16.05.07 5th Studio of The Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (RTR) Moscow, Russia
There’s hardly anyone not familiar with Haydn’s canonical image, omnipresent in his popular biographies: the endlessly jovial old man, ‘Papa Haydn’, pious, amiable, easy-going and industrious, without a hint of a tortured soul, that hallmark of genius in new European culture since Romanticism. This deliberately contrast-free, and yet remarkably truthful image of the great master, created towards the end of his life, corresponds well to his artistic career, also apparently devoid of storms and crises. In the composer’s lifetime, his music was greeted with enthusiasm not in Europe alone, but in overseas colonies as well. He died a venerable old man, having known in full the sweetness of recognition and the love of his contemporaries. A telling example of the attitude towards Haydn in the classical age are the words by Ernst Ludwig Gerber that introduce the master in his Historischbiographisches Lexikon der Tonku?stler from 1790: “Our greatest man, great in every small thing and even greater in big things, the pride of our times.”
Tracklist:
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Concerto in F major for violin, oboe and orchestra
Originally for violin, harpsichord and orchestra (Hob. XVIII:6)
1 Allegro moderato [6:25]
2 Largo [6:45]
3 Presto [3:45]
Quartet in F major, Op.50 No.5, “The Dream”
Originally for strings (Hob.III:48)
4 Allegro moderato [7:59]
5 Poco adagio [3:01]
6 Menuetto. Allegretto [3:48]
7 Finale. Vivace [3:47]
Concerto in G major for oboe and orchestra
Originally for violin and orchestra (Hob.VIIa:4)
8 Allegro moderato [7:04]
9 Adagio [4:52]
10 Finale. Allegro [3:43]
Personnel:
Hermitage Chamber Orchestra
Alexei Utkin, solo oboe (1–3, 8–10)
Musicians:
Pyotr Nikiforov, violin
Alexei Utkin, oboe
Zoya Nevolina, viola
Tigran Muradyan, cello
Anna Karpenko, harpsichord
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