Édouard Du Puy's Bassoon Concerto in C minor is a world premiere recording, discovered by accident when the soloist, Bram van Sambeek, received the wrong manuscript from the National Library of Sweden.
Performer Biography
Bram van Sambeek, the bassoonist on this recording, is the only bassoonist to have received the prestigious Dutch Music Prize, the highest Dutch award in classical music.
Composer Biography
Carl Maria von Weber, often called the first Romantic composer, was related to Mozart by marriage, as Mozart was the husband of Weber's cousin, Konstanze.
Composer Biography
Édouard Du Puy, a composer and musician, was banished from three different countries (Prussia, Sweden, and Denmark) due to scandalous affairs and political statements.
Compositional Technique
Mozart's Bassoon Concerto features a theme in its second movement that he liked so much he reused it eleven years later in the aria 'Porgi amor' from his opera Le Nozze di Figaro.
Composer Biography
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at 18 years old when writing his Bassoon Concerto, had already matured as a composer for fifteen years.
Composition History
Carl Maria von Weber's Bassoon Concerto was written for Georg Friedrich Brandt, the bassoonist of the Munich Court Orchestra, and became the second most played bassoon concerto after Mozart's.
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