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The Art of Arrangement: Mozart & Beethoven Quartets for Piano & Strings

11/19/2021, 8 Tracks, 56:47

Featuring

  • Leonardo Miucci
  • Andrea Rognoni
  • Stefano Marcocchi
  • Marco Frezzato
  • Alea Ensemble
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Beethoven's decision to compose his Quintet Op. 16 for an unusual ensemble of four wind instruments and piano was partly to emulate Mozart's success and assert himself in Vienna.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Both quartets on this album are transcriptions of quintets for winds and piano by their respective composers, Mozart and Beethoven.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Mozart's Quartet for Piano and Strings, KV 452, was transcribed and published posthumously in 1793 by the Viennese publisher Artaria, not by Mozart himself.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Beethoven himself transcribed and published his Quartet for Piano and Strings, Op. 16, alongside its original wind version in 1801.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Leonardo Miucci, the pianist on this recording, is also a musicologist whose doctoral thesis on Beethoven's piano sonatas is being published by the 'Beethoven-Haus' in Bonn.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This is the first recording of these works on historical instruments with improvised cadenzas.

Source: Booklet

Interpretation

The performers on this album chose to improvise all cadenzas, placing these works in their correct historical perspective, reflecting a time when performance was defined by its uniqueness.

Source: Booklet

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