Classical Oboe / Lajos Lencses, Budapest Strings, Et Al

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Label
Haenssler Classic
Release Date
October 16, 2006
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Auer Quartett
    • PERFORMER
      Brachmann, Lencsés, Nagatoni, Nagy, Budapest Strings
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 16, 2006
    • UPC
      4010276019398
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      98277
    • LABEL
      Haenssler Classic
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Adagio and Allegro, K. 594 (arr. for oboe and string ensemble)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Budapest Strings

      Performer: Lajos Lencsés

    2. Adagio non molto in F Major (arr. for oboe and chamber orchestra)

      Composer: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

      Ensemble: Budapest Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Lajos Lencsés

    3. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Auer String Quartet

      Performer: Lajos Lencsés

    4. II. Adagio

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Auer String Quartet

      Performer: Lajos Lencsés

    5. III. Finale

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Auer String Quartet

      Performer: Lajos Lencsés

    6. I. Adagio

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Auer String Quartet

      Performer: Lajos Lencsés

    7. II. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Auer String Quartet

      Performer: Lajos Lencsés

    8. III. Siciliano: Adagio

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Auer String Quartet

      Performer: Lajos Lencsés

    9. IV. Tempo di Menuetto con Variazioni

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Auer String Quartet

      Performer: Lajos Lencsés

    10. V. Finale: Allegro

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Auer String Quartet

      Performer: Lajos Lencsés

    11. Andantino in G Major

      Composer: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

      Ensemble: Budapest Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Lajos Lencsés

    12. I. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Baptist Vaňhal

      Performer: Dieter Brachmann, Lajos Lencsés, Miwako Nagatomi, Vidor Nagy

    13. II. Andante

      Composer: Johann Baptist Vaňhal

      Performer: Dieter Brachmann, Lajos Lencsés, Miwako Nagatomi, Vidor Nagy

    14. III. Minuet - Trio

      Composer: Johann Baptist Vaňhal

      Performer: Dieter Brachmann, Lajos Lencsés, Miwako Nagatomi, Vidor Nagy

    15. IV. Presto

      Composer: Johann Baptist Vaňhal

      Performer: Dieter Brachmann, Lajos Lencsés, Miwako Nagatomi, Vidor Nagy




CLASSICAL OBOE • Lajos Lencsés (ob); Budapest Str; 1 Franz Liszt CO; 2 Auer Qrt; 3 Miwako Nagatomi (vn); 4 Vidor Nagy (va); 4 Dieter Brachmann (vc) 4 • HÄNSSLER 99.277 (66:57)


MOZART Adagio and Allegro, K 594. 1 DITTERSDORF Symphony in F: Adagio non molto. 2 Andantino in G. 2 HAYDN Divertimentos: No. 1 in D; 3 No. 2 in A. 3 VANHAL Quartet in C, op. 7/6 4


It’s been nearly a half century since I had the privilege of witnessing Igor Stravinsky conduct Les noces with Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, and Roger Sessions playing the four pianos. It was a rare assemblage of celebrated composers as performers, but not an unprecedented one. Josef Haydn is known to have invited Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf (second violin), Johann Baptist Vanhal (cello), and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (on his favorite stringed instrument, the viola) to play string quartets with him. Foss and Sessions may have been the Dittersdorf and Vanhal of their time (and vice versa), but I doubt that either Barber or Copland—in their wildest dreams—would have equated themselves with Haydn and Mozart.


This historical footnote is the hook on which Lajos Lencsés, one of our most prolific and imaginative oboe virtuosos, has hung this compilation of mostly recycled odds and ends. Alert readers will notice the array of assisting artists on the disc. Only the Mozart was newly recorded, but the mixture of sources does not intrude. Little, if any, of the program is quite as advertised. The Adagio and Allegro is a transcription of a piece for mechanical organ. Haydn’s divertimentos, composed for his princely employer, were originally scored for baryton trio. The Dittersdorf pieces are slow movements from two of his Six Symphonies after Ovid’s Metamorphoses . I can’t say for sure, but I suspect that the Vanhal contribution was originally a string quartet. No matter. Appropriating music written for another instrument, quite acceptable in Classical Vienna, is hardly unheard of today, and it creates possibilities for programming that would not otherwise exist. Lencsés makes the most of those possibilities. Fanciers of the oboe with a hankering for something a little out of the ordinary (but not too much so) should enjoy this disc.


FANFARE: George Chien