Divertimenti Viennesi

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
May 1, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DITTERSDORF HAYDN VANHAL
    • PERFORMER
      Musica Elegentia, Cicchitti
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 01, 2020
    • UPC
      5028421961279
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96127
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro

      Composer: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti

    2. II. Minuetto

      Composer: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti

    3. I. Andante

      Composer: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti

    4. II. Minuetto

      Composer: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti

    5. I. Presto

      Composer: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti

    6. II. Minuetto

      Composer: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti

    7. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti

    8. II. Minuetto

      Composer: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti

    9. I. Allegro

      Composer: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti

    10. II. Minuetto

      Composer: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti

    11. I Allegro

      Composer: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti

    12. II. Minuetto

      Composer: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti

    13. I. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Baptist Vaňhal

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti

    14. II. Menuetto

      Composer: Johann Baptist Vaňhal

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti

    15. III. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Baptist Vaňhal

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti

    16. IV. Menuetto

      Composer: Johann Baptist Vaňhal

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti

    17. V. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Baptist Vaňhal

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti

    18. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Michael Haydn

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti

    19. II. Adagio

      Composer: Michael Haydn

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti

    20. III. Menuet

      Composer: Michael Haydn

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti

    21. IV. Finale: Presto

      Composer: Michael Haydn

      Ensemble: Musica Elegentia Consort

      Conductor: Matteo Cicchitti


All three composers gathered together on this unique compilation were active in Vienna in the last half of the 18th century, and all had mastered the craft of writing music for pleasure - as much in the playing as the listening - rather than devotion or edification. They were also expert string players - Dittersdorf and Vanhal formed the other two members of a famous 'composers' quartet' that included Joseph Haydn (younger brother to Michael) and Mozart - and so wrote these divertimentos from the inside, as it were. The Divertimenti included in the album were composed in the 1760s. They are all fairly brief, multi-movement pieces, easy on the ear and of fairly simple construction, with the first violin taking the lion's share of the melody. However, a little closer listening will reveal many small refinements in the secondary parts (viola e violone), which not only support the main part, but interact with it in lively musical conversation: an inter-instrumental dialogue which is particularly emphasized in this recording. Michael Haydn's C major Divertimento P.110 has the most conventional, four-movement structure, whereas Vanhal's symmetrical design encloses a lovely Adagio within a pair of minuets, a free-flowing first movement and a syncopated finale bristling with energy and high spirits. The six trios by Dittersdorf are all two-movement pieces, pairing a quick introduction with a gentler minuet. The common but unusual element to the scoring of all the music on this album is the absence of cello in the basso continuo role, which is written down the octave to be played by a violone or double bass. This often creates a gruff or humorous character - especially in Michael Haydn's Divertimento - but Vanhal in particular requires a musician of agility to zip up and down the instrument and writes for it as a deeper cello.