FRANZ KROMMER Wind sextets
GCD C80604
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Nachtmusique Eric Hoeprich, clarinet & direction Toni Salar-Verdú, clarinet Jane Gower, bassoon Javier Zafra, bassoon Teunis van der Zwart, horn Erwin Wieringa, horn Carles Riera, clarinet Emilio Moreno, viola David Sinclair, contrabass
Production details
Total playing time 64:05 Recorded in Cuenca (Iglesia de San Miguel), Spain, in May 2000 Engineered by Isidro MatamorosProduced by Emilio Moreno and Carles Riera
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FRANZ KROMMER (1759-1831)Wind sextets
Partita in E flat major 1 Allegro 2 Romance 3 Menuetto 4 Presto
Trios for two clarinets & viola 5 Allegro 6 Polonaise 7 Andante 8 Menuetto 9 Rondo
Partita in C minor 10 Largo-Allegro 11 Adagio 12 Rondo. Allegro
13 Variations on a theme by Pleyel, for three clarinets
Partita in E flat major 14 Allegro moderato 15 Romanze. Andantino 16 Menuetto. Allegro assai 17 Rondo
About this CD
The ensemble Nachtmusique of the clarinettist Eric Hoeprich typically draws its members from the wind section of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century (directed, until his death in August 2014, by Frans Brüggen). Quite probably the leading specialists today in Harmoniemusik – the genre so fashionable in Vienna and its surrounding area as the eighteenth century turned into the nineteenth – these musicians, here operating as a sextet and playing delightfully sounding original instruments, give us an entire disc devoted to the Bohemian composer Franz Krommer, with music full of vibrancy and humour.