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Alla turca: Orchestral Works by Romberg, Mozart & Haydn / Griffiths, Collegium Musicum Basel
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Alla turca: Orchestral Works by Romberg, Mozart & Haydn / Griffiths, Collegium Musicum Basel

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Details

Composer
HAYDN MOZART ROMBERG
Artist
Schroder, Collegium Musicum Basel, Griffiths
Format
CD
Label
CPO
Released
Jul 06, 2018
Catalog #
555175-2
UPC
761203517527

About

Andreas Romberg explored new musical territory when he got the idea to include Turkish color in his fourth symphony. It was not until the romantic era that Oriental or Arabian color very deliberately was incorporated into symphonic music, whether in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade (1888) or in Engelbert Humperdinck’s Maurische Rhapsodie (1898). Right in the first movement of his symphony Romberg used the title “A la turca” to get his audience to anticipate Turkish color. The gradually intensified initial part goes over into a passage with the expected percussion accents and swiftly whirling violin figures. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Violin Concerto in A major, the last of his five violin concertos, is also regarded as a concert piece with Turkish color. In the rondo finale there is a famous interlude in A minor in which the violoncellists and double bassists beat the rhythm on the strings with their bow sticks. This too produces the popular “Alla turca” flair. Our soloist is the young Swiss musician Julia Schroder, and it is not least in the swift main part of the Haydn overture that things sound “Turkish”; here not only the timpani but also the bass drum and cymbals accentuate the rhythm. This album also marks the inauguration of our complete recording of the symphonic music of Andreas Romberg.

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro 06:55
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    06:55
    Composer
    Andreas Jakob Romberg
    Ensemble
    Collegium Musicum Basel
    Conductor
    Kevin Griffiths
  2. 2 II. Menuetto: Vivace 04:22
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Menuetto: Vivace
    Duration
    04:22
    Composer
    Andreas Jakob Romberg
    Ensemble
    Collegium Musicum Basel
    Conductor
    Kevin Griffiths
  3. 3 III. Andante quasi Allegretto 05:38
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Andante quasi Allegretto
    Duration
    05:38
    Composer
    Andreas Jakob Romberg
    Ensemble
    Collegium Musicum Basel
    Conductor
    Kevin Griffiths
  4. 4 IV. Finale: Vivace 06:52
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Finale: Vivace
    Duration
    06:52
    Composer
    Andreas Jakob Romberg
    Ensemble
    Collegium Musicum Basel
    Conductor
    Kevin Griffiths
  5. 5 I. Allegro aperto - Adagio - Allegro aperto 09:37
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Allegro aperto - Adagio - Allegro aperto
    Duration
    09:37
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Julia Schröder
    Ensemble
    Collegium Musicum Basel
    Conductor
    Kevin Griffiths
  6. 6 II. Adagio 10:03
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    10:03
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Julia Schröder
    Ensemble
    Collegium Musicum Basel
    Conductor
    Kevin Griffiths
  7. 7 III. Tempo di menuetto 09:24
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Tempo di menuetto
    Duration
    09:24
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Julia Schröder
    Ensemble
    Collegium Musicum Basel
    Conductor
    Kevin Griffiths
  8. 8 L'incontro improvviso: Overture, Hob.Ia:6 07:16
    Track
    8
    Title
    L'incontro improvviso: Overture, Hob.Ia:6
    Duration
    07:16
    Composer
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Ensemble
    Collegium Musicum Basel
    Conductor
    Kevin Griffiths