Druschetzky: Oboe Quartets, Vol. 1 / Grundmann Quartet

$13.99
Label
CPO
Release Date
August 16, 2019
Format
Added to Cart! View cart or continue shopping.


    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DRUSCHETZKY, GEORG
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Grundmann-Quartett
    • PERFORMER
      GRUNDMANN-QUARTETT
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 16, 2019
    • UPC
      761203517121
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555171-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro

      Composer: Georg Druschetzky

      Ensemble: Grundmann Quartet

    2. II. Menuetto: Allegretto

      Composer: Georg Druschetzky

      Ensemble: Grundmann Quartet

    3. III. Andante

      Composer: Georg Druschetzky

      Ensemble: Grundmann Quartet

    4. IV. Allegro con variazioni

      Composer: Georg Druschetzky

      Ensemble: Grundmann Quartet

    5. I. Adagio - Allegro

      Composer: Georg Druschetzky

      Ensemble: Grundmann Quartet

    6. II. Andante

      Composer: Georg Druschetzky

      Ensemble: Grundmann Quartet

    7. III. Allegro

      Composer: Georg Druschetzky

      Ensemble: Grundmann Quartet

    8. I. Adagio - Allegro assai

      Composer: Georg Druschetzky

      Ensemble: Grundmann Quartet

    9. II. Menuetto: Allegretto

      Composer: Georg Druschetzky

      Ensemble: Grundmann Quartet

    10. III. Andante

      Composer: Georg Druschetzky

      Ensemble: Grundmann Quartet

    11. IV. Rondo: Allegro

      Composer: Georg Druschetzky

      Ensemble: Grundmann Quartet

    12. I. Adagio - Allegro

      Composer: Georg Druschetzky

      Ensemble: Grundmann Quartet

    13. II. Andante, poco adagio

      Composer: Georg Druschetzky

      Ensemble: Grundmann Quartet

    14. III. Rondo: Allegro

      Composer: Georg Druschetzky

      Ensemble: Grundmann Quartet

    15. I. Allegro molto

      Composer: Georg Druschetzky

      Ensemble: Grundmann Quartet

    16. II. Menuetto

      Composer: Georg Druschetzky

      Ensemble: Grundmann Quartet

    17. III. Adagio

      Composer: Georg Druschetzky

      Ensemble: Grundmann Quartet

    18. IV. Allegro Canone

      Composer: Georg Druschetzky

      Ensemble: Grundmann Quartet

    19. Po zarostlém chodníčku (On the Overgrown Path), Book 1, JW VIII/17: No. 7. Dobrou noc! (Good Night!) (arr. for oboe quartet)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Ensemble: Grundmann Quartet


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.