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Druschetzky: Oboe Quartets, Vol. 1 / Grundmann Quartet
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Druschetzky: Oboe Quartets, Vol. 1 / Grundmann Quartet

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Details

Composer
DRUSCHETZKY, GEORG
Artist
GRUNDMANN-QUARTETT
Format
CD
Label
CPO
Released
Aug 16, 2019
Catalog #
555171-2
UPC
761203517121

About

Georg Druschetzky is a name that people who know their music history associate with charming but innocuous wind partitas and truly out-of-the-ordinary concertos for six, seven, or eight timpani and orchestra. The latter category comes as no surprise; after all, Druschetzky was an “Upper Austrian Regional Timpanist” (a title actually bestowed on him in Linz in 1776), and so why shouldn’t he offer compositional tribute to his instrument? But there’s more: Druschetzky enjoyed a successful career that took him all the way to the court of the Palatine of Hungary, Archduke Joseph von Habsburg, in Ofen (today’s Buda), where he held the posts of court composer and music director and wrote masses, symphonies, two operas, and numerous chamber compositions. His chamber works include a cycle of ten oboe quartets (1807-8) from his late years that make an astonishing and lasting listening impression – because of his rich imagination and his compositional wit and spirited harmonic daredevilry that we otherwise encounter only in the “surprise artist” Haydn. This discovery is so significant that we in any case intend to present all ten quartets in congenial recordings by the Grundmann Quartet on historical instruments. The present release is volume 1 in this project.

Tracklist 19 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro 05:03
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    05:03
    Composer
    Georg Druschetzky
    Ensemble
    Grundmann Quartet
  2. 2 II. Menuetto: Allegretto 05:18
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Menuetto: Allegretto
    Duration
    05:18
    Composer
    Georg Druschetzky
    Ensemble
    Grundmann Quartet
  3. 3 III. Andante 03:03
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Andante
    Duration
    03:03
    Composer
    Georg Druschetzky
    Ensemble
    Grundmann Quartet
  4. 4 IV. Allegro con variazioni 05:14
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Allegro con variazioni
    Duration
    05:14
    Composer
    Georg Druschetzky
    Ensemble
    Grundmann Quartet
  5. 5 I. Adagio - Allegro 04:00
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Adagio - Allegro
    Duration
    04:00
    Composer
    Georg Druschetzky
    Ensemble
    Grundmann Quartet
  6. 6 II. Andante 05:57
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    05:57
    Composer
    Georg Druschetzky
    Ensemble
    Grundmann Quartet
  7. 7 III. Allegro 03:30
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    03:30
    Composer
    Georg Druschetzky
    Ensemble
    Grundmann Quartet
  8. 8 I. Adagio - Allegro assai 04:35
    Track
    8
    Title
    I. Adagio - Allegro assai
    Duration
    04:35
    Composer
    Georg Druschetzky
    Ensemble
    Grundmann Quartet
  9. 9 II. Menuetto: Allegretto 04:22
    Track
    9
    Title
    II. Menuetto: Allegretto
    Duration
    04:22
    Composer
    Georg Druschetzky
    Ensemble
    Grundmann Quartet
  10. 10 III. Andante 03:38
    Track
    10
    Title
    III. Andante
    Duration
    03:38
    Composer
    Georg Druschetzky
    Ensemble
    Grundmann Quartet
  11. 11 IV. Rondo: Allegro 03:38
    Track
    11
    Title
    IV. Rondo: Allegro
    Duration
    03:38
    Composer
    Georg Druschetzky
    Ensemble
    Grundmann Quartet
  12. 12 I. Adagio - Allegro 06:30
    Track
    12
    Title
    I. Adagio - Allegro
    Duration
    06:30
    Composer
    Georg Druschetzky
    Ensemble
    Grundmann Quartet
  13. 13 II. Andante, poco adagio 02:59
    Track
    13
    Title
    II. Andante, poco adagio
    Duration
    02:59
    Composer
    Georg Druschetzky
    Ensemble
    Grundmann Quartet
  14. 14 III. Rondo: Allegro 03:54
    Track
    14
    Title
    III. Rondo: Allegro
    Duration
    03:54
    Composer
    Georg Druschetzky
    Ensemble
    Grundmann Quartet
  15. 15 I. Allegro molto 03:38
    Track
    15
    Title
    I. Allegro molto
    Duration
    03:38
    Composer
    Georg Druschetzky
    Ensemble
    Grundmann Quartet
  16. 16 II. Menuetto 02:43
    Track
    16
    Title
    II. Menuetto
    Duration
    02:43
    Composer
    Georg Druschetzky
    Ensemble
    Grundmann Quartet
  17. 17 III. Adagio 03:28
    Track
    17
    Title
    III. Adagio
    Duration
    03:28
    Composer
    Georg Druschetzky
    Ensemble
    Grundmann Quartet
  18. 18 IV. Allegro Canone 03:15
    Track
    18
    Title
    IV. Allegro Canone
    Duration
    03:15
    Composer
    Georg Druschetzky
    Ensemble
    Grundmann Quartet
  19. 19 Po zarostlém chodníčku (On the Overgrown Path), Book 1, JW VIII/17: No. 7. Dobrou noc! (Good Night!) (arr. for oboe quartet) 03:02
    Track
    19
    Title
    Po zarostlém chodníčku (On the Overgrown Path), Book 1, JW VIII/17: No. 7. Dobrou noc! (Good Night!) (arr. for oboe quartet)
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Ensemble
    Grundmann Quartet