Mozart - Gran Partita - Frans Brüggen

"Furtwängler, le must, Brüggen, l'autre must"
Le Monde de la Musique.
Menuetto from the historic recording with Members of the 18th Century Orchestra (1988).
The Stadler Trio was formed a while before, and its members play in this project. Notice the first Trio of the Menuet for 2 Clarinets and 2 Basset Horns. During the Gran Partita tours the Stadler Trio always played one piece, also by Mozart, in the first part of the concerts. From the "25 pieces" KV 439b, Frans Bruggen often chose Larghetto, 17. Frans Brüggen, one of the best and most influential conductors ever, conducted this Menuetto understanding like nobody else the two great features of the piece: the dance and the sonata-form structure. C.R.
PERFORMERS
Ku Ebbinge (The Netherlands) - Oboe
Alayne Leslie (USA) - Oboe
Eric Hoeprich (USA) - Clarinet
Guy van Waas (Belgium) - Clarinet
Alf Hörberg (Sweden) - Basset Horn
Carles Riera (Catalonia - Spain) - Basset Horn
Ab Koster (The Netherlands) - Horn
Stefan Blonk (The Netherlands) - Horn
Claude Maury (France) - Horn
Teunis van der Zwart (The Netherlands) - Horn
Danny Bond (USA) - Bassoon
Donna Agrell (Alaska - USA) - Bassoon
Anthony Woodrow (England - UK) - Double Bass
Quotation of the video by Philips

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• Eric
• Hoeprich
• Carles
• Riera

[thesafekind]

If ever there was a piece where period instruments are a good idea, it's this one. I remember a record producer writing about how hard it was to balance this piece in a recording by Klemperer because modern wind nstruments sound so different from the ones Mozart wrote for.

Of course it's possible to make it work on modern instruments, but it's much easier to get a balanced sound and make all the instruments count for something with the period winds.

[jmarquar]

1988 was such a bad year for hairstyles.

[CLEMENTE316]

很精彩

[CLEMENTE316]

很精彩

[guirolet]

Absolutament meravellós. Llàstima que només hi sigui un moviment. Gràcies.

[EstatesAustin]

Marvelous..perfect

[201221DEC]

I hear a difference between the old instruments and the ones used these days. The old instruments seem more natural, light and modest in a way. (nowadays some classical music can be perceived as too powerful or even bombastic in my opinion).

[zamppa63]

It is much more common amongst period wind instrument players to study to bild your own instrument and to have more knowledge about them, than amongst "just modern instrument players" (they just want instruments from dealers/shops)(of course modern wind instruments need more technolgy, But "just modern instrument" players are lazier. (Of course, It is allways usually difficult to make a living by playing).

[tuttorialero]

0:08 oboè

0:26 clarinet

4:42 trompes



[Lsb412]

@thesafekind Are they using period winds here? Sorry, I don't know much about classical music.

[rayado612]

I have the CD of this recording, but seeing this video is FAR better...This recording is one of my favorites....the interpretation is fabulous, the original instruments sounds very nice and this particular music is so beatiful...no words will ever be enough.

[jugglingotis]

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