Live recordings of early Romantic sounds: chamber music of Beethoven and Mozart.
We fall under the spell of Beethoven. Early works of the young composer full of fire and humour are alternated with the nearly-Romantic zest of his Piano Trio Op. 70 No.1, which is called Geistertrio because of the ominous melodies: ghosts, in the sense of phantoms, ghosting about, like the soul of the romantic, searching and tormented composer ghosts among the notes (all be it, that the latter explanation comes from critic and writer E.T.A. Hoffmann).
The septet is an extensive symphony in pocket size for a mini orchestra of seven (wind instruments and strings). String Quartet Op. 18 No.1 is Beethoven’s examination piece with his teacher Haydn. The elder composer must have been thinking: yet another – like Mozart – who can easily rival me. All this, is preceded by the Oboe Quartet of Mozart, a mini concerto for one wind instrument and an orchestra of three string players.
Playlist
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Oboe Quartet in F major, KV 370
Wilma Jongsma, oboe, Maria Milstein, violin, Hessel Moeselaar, viola, Melle de Vries, cello. - Ludwig van Beethoven. Septet in E-flat major, Op. 20
Maria Milstein, violin, Hessel Moeselaar, viola, Melle de Vries, cello, Andres Subeila, double bass, Sergio Sanchez Martin, clarinet, Rachel Parker, bassoon, Lindy Karreman, horn. - Ludwig van Beethoven. Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70 No.1 – Geistertrio
Antje Weithaas, violin, Quirine Viersen, cello, Thomas Hoppe, piano. - Ludwig van Beethoven. String Quartet in F major, Op. 18 No.1
Van Swieten Society: Hellen Hulst, Sara de Corso, violin, Elisabeth Smalt, viola, Diederick van Dijk, cello.
