Mozart's Bassoon - Works for Solo Bassoon / Whelan, Bezuidenhout, Ensemble Marsyas

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Label
Linn Records
Release Date
March 11, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Ensemble Marsyas
    • PERFORMER
      Peter Whelan, Kristian Bezuidenhout
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 11, 2022
    • UPC
      691062068024
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CKD680
    • LABEL
      Linn Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas

      Performer: Peter Whelan

      Conductor: Peter Whelan

    2. II. Andante ma adagio

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas

      Performer: Peter Whelan

      Conductor: Peter Whelan

    3. III. Rondo: Tempo di menuetto

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas

      Performer: Peter Whelan

      Conductor: Peter Whelan

    4. I. Allegro

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Performer: Peter Whelan, Kristian Bezuidenhout

    5. II. Andante

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Performer: Peter Whelan, Kristian Bezuidenhout

    6. II. Rondo (Allegro)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Performer: Peter Whelan, Kristian Bezuidenhout

    7. I. Allegro

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas

      Performer: Peter Whelan

      Conductor: Peter Whelan

    8. II. Andante

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas

      Performer: Peter Whelan

      Conductor: Peter Whelan

    9. III. Menuetto in canone

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas

      Performer: Peter Whelan

      Conductor: Peter Whelan

    10. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas

      Performer: Peter Whelan

      Conductor: Peter Whelan


Returning to his beloved bassoon Peter Whelan takes a fresh look at the two surviving works by Mozart for the instrument: Concerto K. 191 and Sonata K. 292. These attractive early works were most likely composed during the composer’s time in Salzburg. The concerto is the earliest of his woodwind concertos, and has become a staple work for every bassoon player: it showcases the tremendous capabilities of the pre-nineteenth-century instrument, its agility, extraordinary range and tone color. Whelan and his virtuoso Ensemble Marsyas are playing from the original printed parts since the autograph score has not survived. While the sonata’s original medium is uncertain – for two bass instruments or bassoon and keyboard – Whelan makes it his own with Kristian Bezuidenhout performing the continuo line. Ensemble Marsyas rounds off the program with Mozart’s most dramatic work for winds, the Serenade in C minor. Composed in Vienna for the Harmonie (the bassoon’s natural home), it served as a musical laboratory where Mozart could experiment with the virtuoso and lyrical possibilities of his Viennese wind soloists who later animated his greatest operas.