Mozart Contemporaries - 18th Century Music for Bassoon

Mainer Martín, Carmen;
Mur, Violeta;
Escartín, Enrique

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This album presents a selection of works written by three composers of the same generation: all three were born in the 1750s and wrote music in the Classical idiom of eighteenth-century Europe, all three centred around the bassoon.

Mozart is the starting point of the program with his rarely performed Sonata for bassoon and cello in B flat, KV 292. Cast in three movements, it was written in around 1775 – a year after the Bassoon Concerto in B flat, KV 191 – when Mozart was not yet twenty. Notable for its sheer simplicity and beauty, it was dedicated to the music-loving nobleman Thaddäus Wolfgang von Dürnitz, an amateur composer and occasional pianist and bassoonist. For the same combination we hear two Duo-Concertantes by Devienne, and three bassoon sonatas by Von Dürtnitz.

Played by three Spanish soloists sharing a passion for unknown chamber music from the 18th century.

Works:

• Dürnitz: Bassoon Sonata No. 3 in G major
• Dürnitz: Bassoon Sonata No. 5 in G major
• Dürnitz: Bassoon Sonata No. 6 in C major

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Brilliant Classics

09-02-2021

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