Mendelssohn - Symphony no.5 ‘Reformation’; Mozart, Widmann
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Label: Orfeo
Cat No: C921171A
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 12th May 2017
Contents
Works
Clarinet Sonata in E flat majorAdagio and Fugue in C minor, K546
Versuch uber die Fuge (version for soprano, oboe and chamber orchestra)
Artists
Mojca Erdmann (soprano)Irish Chamber Orchestra
Conductor
Jorg WidmannWorks
Clarinet Sonata in E flat majorAdagio and Fugue in C minor, K546
Versuch uber die Fuge (version for soprano, oboe and chamber orchestra)
Artists
Mojca Erdmann (soprano)Irish Chamber Orchestra
Conductor
Jorg WidmannAbout
The work is full of daring and abundantly formal characteristics, from the confrontation of the artistic, canonically-elaborated Catholic intonation of the Psalms employing a Reformational wind chorale over the ‘Dresden Amen’ that both Wagner and Bruckner were to use, through to the superimposition of the sonata writing and chorale variation in the final movement. For Jörg Widmann it was an appealing challenge to contrast the historically fraught and consciously complex experiment by the mature prodigy Mendelssohn with the young Mozart’s highly emotional, compositionally concentrated answer to his encounter with Bach’s Fugues; the Fugue in C minor for two pianos is expanded here by a passionate Adagio and arranged for string orchestra.
The first recording of an adaptation of Widmann’s own String Quartet No.5 (with soprano) takes the same formation and decisively expands it with an oboe and two bassoons in his Attempt at a Fugue from 2005. This, he suggests, is his most serious piece in the tradition of Haydn and Mozart’s ‘scholarly’, ‘artificial’ fugal quartets, which reflect and deconstruct the history of this genre. Finally, the instrumentalist, conductor and composer Widmann has fulfilled a personal wish: to arrange for clarinet and piano one of his favourite pieces by the 15-year-old Mendelssohn. The Andante from the Sonata in E flat major of 1824 is performed in Widmann’s version for clarinet, string orchestra, harp and celesta, producing – according to the arranger himself – ‘miracle music’.
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