Concerti da caccia
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Composer or Director: Leopold Mozart, Johann Friedrich Fasch
Label: Philips
Magazine Review Date: 11/1987
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 416 815-1PH
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Concerto in D, '(Die) Jagd' |
Johann Friedrich Fasch, Composer
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Hermann Baumann, Horn Iona Brown, Violin Johann Friedrich Fasch, Composer Radovan Vlatkovic, Horn |
Sinfonia da caccia, 'Jagd Symphonie' |
Leopold Mozart, Composer
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Hermann Baumann, Horn Iona Brown, Conductor Leopold Mozart, Composer Nicholas Hill, Horn Radovan Vlatkovic, Horn Timothy Brown, Horn |
Concerto for 2 Horns and Orchestra |
Leopold Mozart, Composer
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Hermann Baumann, Horn Iona Brown, Conductor Leopold Mozart, Composer Radovan Vlatkovic, Horn |
Composer or Director: Leopold Mozart, Johann Friedrich Fasch
Label: Philips
Magazine Review Date: 11/1987
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 51
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 416 815-2PH
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Concerto in D, '(Die) Jagd' |
Johann Friedrich Fasch, Composer
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Hermann Baumann, Horn Iona Brown, Violin Johann Friedrich Fasch, Composer Radovan Vlatkovic, Horn |
Sinfonia da caccia, 'Jagd Symphonie' |
Leopold Mozart, Composer
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Hermann Baumann, Horn Iona Brown, Conductor Leopold Mozart, Composer Nicholas Hill, Horn Radovan Vlatkovic, Horn Timothy Brown, Horn |
Concerto for 2 Horns and Orchestra |
Leopold Mozart, Composer
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Hermann Baumann, Horn Iona Brown, Conductor Leopold Mozart, Composer Radovan Vlatkovic, Horn |
Composer or Director: Leopold Mozart, Johann Friedrich Fasch
Label: Philips
Magazine Review Date: 11/1987
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 416 815-4PH
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Concerto in D, '(Die) Jagd' |
Johann Friedrich Fasch, Composer
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Hermann Baumann, Horn Iona Brown, Violin Johann Friedrich Fasch, Composer Radovan Vlatkovic, Horn |
Sinfonia da caccia, 'Jagd Symphonie' |
Leopold Mozart, Composer
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Hermann Baumann, Horn Iona Brown, Conductor Leopold Mozart, Composer Nicholas Hill, Horn Radovan Vlatkovic, Horn Timothy Brown, Horn |
Concerto for 2 Horns and Orchestra |
Leopold Mozart, Composer
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Hermann Baumann, Horn Iona Brown, Conductor Leopold Mozart, Composer Radovan Vlatkovic, Horn |
Author: Edward Greenfield
The Mouret is quite different from the rest, when on Hermann Baumann's suggestion a French ensemble of five players of the trompe de chasse, or hunting-horn, were asked to perform in this suite of seven lively movements. To put it frankly they make a real racket, not because they fall short on virtuosity but because by the nature of the instruments it is scarcely possible to avoid some flattening on certain notes, and the microtonal results at some points have to be heard to be believed, and with even the more consonant passages rasping savagely. It is all very lively and great fun. A portrait of Hermann Baumann with that group, Les trompes de France, all wearing eighteenth-century hunting uniform decorates the sleeve.
The rest is much more elegant and restful on the ear, though following the programmatic instructions in the first movement of the Leopold Mozart ''Hunt'' Symphony, you first get gunshots (recorded so vividly they made me jump, thinking something fragile had dropped off a shelf), and then at very brief periodic intervals the yelping of hounds. The colourful impact of the movement is enhanced by the deliberate contrast between the pair of horns in G and the darker horns in D. That portrayal of the hunt itself gets you in the mood for the second movement representing the peace of the forest, and the final elegant minuet.
The other Leopold Mozart work is for two horns, with a sharp distinction between primo and secondo and with many of the most striking virtuoso passages given to the second player. The slow movement is particularly beautiful, with the hunting rhythm of 6/8 reserved for the finale. The first of the three movements of the Concerto by Fasch has a very elaborate programme, based ingeniously on hunting calls of the period. That leads to a lyrical slow movement and a solidly Handelian finale.
With the horns recorded in sound both ripe and brilliant, and with Iona Brown and the Academy providing lively and sympathetic support, this is a fun record for anyone who—like Leopold Mozart—is in love with the sound of the horn, but not necessarily one to be played at a single sitting. Hermann Baumann, who over the last year or so has been responsible for so many fine horn records, here shows his virtuoso artistry equally impressively in duet with Radovan Vlatkovic as well as—in the ''Hunt'' Symphony—the Academy horn players, Timothy Brown and Nicholas Hill.'
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