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Küffner: Serenades for Guitar / Classico Terzetto Italiano
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Küffner: Serenades for Guitar / Classico Terzetto Italiano

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Details

Composer
KUFFNER, JOSEPH
Artist
Classico Terzetto Italiano
Format
CD
Discs
1
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Jul 23, 2021
Catalog #
BRI96319
UPC
5028421963198

About

The first album dedicated to a Bavarian contemporary of Schubert, featuring a trio of easy-on-the-ear serenades in new recordings, played by an experienced Italian ensemble with a track record of success in reviving forgotten corners of 19th-century salon music. Joseph Küffner (1776-1856) trained as a lawyer but studied the guitar and violin in his spare time. No ordinary ‘amateur’ musician, he performed concertos by Viotti and Mestrino in public, and in due course became a teacher of those instruments, then a regimental band leader; by the age of 30 he was a court musician for Archduke Ferdinand. Two years later, in 1808, his own music was first published – a set of dances for violin and guitar – but many of his surviving pieces remain in manuscript, including seven symphonies. Most of Küffner’s music, however, was composed for his own instruments, and tailored with an eye and ear to a lucrative domestic audience. Some 25 pieces are scored for the combination of flute, viola and guitar heard on this new album, most of them serenades, fantasies or pot-pourris, all unfailingly well-crafted and cheerful in temperament. Having read through most of them, the Classico Terzetto Italiano has to record three of the most delightful. Op.4 is, unusually, cast in a minor key, though hardly tragic in mood. Op.10 is dedicated to the Grand Duke of Würzburg: a tribute from one military man to another, and quoting a march from a then-popular opera, Kreutzer’s Lodoïska. Op.15 includes a witty minuet and what sounds like a homage to Mozart closing with a virtuosic Galop which tests the guitarist’s technique with its brilliant figuration.

Tracklist 11 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro 10:32
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    10:32
    Composer
    Joseph Kuffner
    Ensemble
    Classico Terzetto Italiano
  2. 2 II. Andante con moto 07:44
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante con moto
    Duration
    07:44
    Composer
    Joseph Kuffner
    Ensemble
    Classico Terzetto Italiano
  3. 3 III. Minuetto, allegro vivace 03:09
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Minuetto, allegro vivace
    Duration
    03:09
    Composer
    Joseph Kuffner
    Ensemble
    Classico Terzetto Italiano
  4. 4 IV. Rondò, scherzando 04:37
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Rondò, scherzando
    Duration
    04:37
    Composer
    Joseph Kuffner
    Ensemble
    Classico Terzetto Italiano
  5. 5 I. Allegro 11:47
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    11:47
    Composer
    Joseph Kuffner
    Ensemble
    Classico Terzetto Italiano
  6. 6 II. Andante 05:04
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    05:04
    Composer
    Joseph Kuffner
    Ensemble
    Classico Terzetto Italiano
  7. 7 III. Andante 04:25
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Andante
    Duration
    04:25
    Composer
    Joseph Kuffner
    Ensemble
    Classico Terzetto Italiano
  8. 8 I. Allegro moderato 10:13
    Track
    8
    Title
    I. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    10:13
    Composer
    Joseph Kuffner
    Ensemble
    Classico Terzetto Italiano
  9. 9 II. Menuetto, allegretto 03:09
    Track
    9
    Title
    II. Menuetto, allegretto
    Duration
    03:09
    Composer
    Joseph Kuffner
    Ensemble
    Classico Terzetto Italiano
  10. 10 III. Andante 04:32
    Track
    10
    Title
    III. Andante
    Duration
    04:32
    Composer
    Joseph Kuffner
    Ensemble
    Classico Terzetto Italiano
  11. 11 IV. Rondò 04:52
    Track
    11
    Title
    IV. Rondò
    Duration
    04:52
    Composer
    Joseph Kuffner
    Ensemble
    Classico Terzetto Italiano