Mozart: Haffner Serenade & Ein Musikalischer Spass / Willens, Kolner Akademie

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BIS
Release Date
February 7, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MOZART, W.A.
    • PERFORMER
      Kolner Akademie, Willens
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 07, 2020
    • UPC
      7318599923949
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2394
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. March in D Major, K. 249

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    2. I. Allegro maestoso

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    3. II. Andante

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Alexander Janiczek

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    4. III. Minuet

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Alexander Janiczek

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    5. IV. Rondo: Allegro

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Alexander Janiczek

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    6. V. Minuet galante

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    7. VI. Andante

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    8. VII. Minuet

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    9. VIII. Adagio - Allegro assai

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    10. I. Allegro

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    11. II. Menuetto: Maestoso

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    12. III. Adagio cantabile

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    13. IV. Presto

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens


Besides an acclaimed series of recordings with Ronald Brautigam of the complete piano concertos by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Beethoven, Kölner Akademie and Michael Alexander Willens are undertaking a survey of Mozart’s serenades and other incidental works. Their first album in this series included the Posthorn Serenade and demonstrated, according to the reviewer on MusicWeb-International, that the ensemble is ‘amongst the best groups in the world of period performance.’ Since then the team has recorded works associated with the Freemasons, and here takes on one of the most famous of the serenades, the ‘Haffner’, named after Sigmund Haffner, who commissioned it for the festivities surrounding his sister’s wedding in 1776. A notable feature of Mozart’s serenades – and the large-scale Haffner is no exception – is the incorporation of virtuosic solo parts, here performed by the violinist Alexander Janiczek. On the amply-filled disc (almost 86 minutes!), the at times quite imposing Haffner is followed by Mozart’s ‘Musical Joke’ – Ein musikalischer Spaß, K. 522. A work in four movements, this is a delightful and very skillfully crafted parody of musical incompetence. It is written for strings and a pair of horns, and its frequent caricatures of the second-rate – whether in composition or performance – are brilliantly observed, by Mozart as well as the present performers.

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REVIEW:

The Haffner performance provides great rewards, with Willens and his players amply demonstrating their immersion in Mozart’s idiom.

– Gramophone