IDAGIO | Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 - Brahms: Variations On A Theme by Haydn 881488406320

Featuring

Ferdinand Leitner
Monique Haas
Württembergisches Staatsorchester Stuttgart
Berliner Philharmoniker
Johannes Brahms
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

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Performer Biography

Ferdinand Leitner, one of the great German conductors of the last century, was known for his thoroughness and passion, prioritizing the music itself over personal fame.

Performer Biography

Monique Haas, a French pianist, was one of the first French musical personalities to perform and record with German musicians again after the Second World War.

Compositional Technique

Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K488, dispenses with kettledrums, trumpets, and oboes, using only a flute, two clarinets, horns, and bassoons to augment the strings.

Compositional Technique

Brahms's "Haydn Variations" go beyond a normal set of variations by creating a more sophisticated form, rather than simply enhancing and extending the material.

Composer Biography

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, the composer of "The Jewels of the Madonna," was born and died in Venice but lived mainly in Bavaria and taught at the Salzburg Mozarteum.

Compositional Technique

In Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23, the winds are remarkably independent, being assigned tasks that other composers of Mozart's generation were not willing to risk.

Composition History

The theme Johannes Brahms used for his "Haydn Variations" did not actually originate with Joseph Haydn, but was an old Austrian tune called "St. Antoni Chorale."