Pleyel: Clarinet Chamber Music / Magistrelli, Italian Classical Consort

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
January 27, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Ignace Joseph Pleyel
    • PERFORMER
      Luigi Magistrelli, Italian Classical Consort
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 27, 2023
    • UPC
      5028421968490
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96849
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro

      Composer: Ignaz Joseph Pleyel

      Ensemble: Italian Classical Consort

      Performer: Luigi Magistrelli

    2. II. Adagio

      Composer: Ignaz Joseph Pleyel

      Ensemble: Italian Classical Consort

      Performer: Luigi Magistrelli

    3. III. Allegro

      Composer: Ignaz Joseph Pleyel

      Ensemble: Italian Classical Consort

      Performer: Luigi Magistrelli

    4. Duet No. 1: Allegro

      Composer: Ignaz Joseph Pleyel

      Ensemble: Italian Classical Consort

      Performer: Luigi Magistrelli

    5. Duet No. 2: I. Andante

      Composer: Ignaz Joseph Pleyel

      Ensemble: Italian Classical Consort

      Performer: Luigi Magistrelli

    6. Duet No. 3: II. Menuetto poco Allegretto

      Composer: Ignaz Joseph Pleyel

      Ensemble: Italian Classical Consort

      Performer: Luigi Magistrelli

    7. Duet No. 4: III. Allegro

      Composer: Ignaz Joseph Pleyel

      Ensemble: Italian Classical Consort

      Performer: Luigi Magistrelli

    8. I. Allegro

      Composer: Ignaz Joseph Pleyel

      Ensemble: Italian Classical Consort

      Performer: Luigi Magistrelli

    9. II. Adagio molto

      Composer: Ignaz Joseph Pleyel

      Ensemble: Italian Classical Consort

      Performer: Luigi Magistrelli

    10. III. Allegro non troppo

      Composer: Ignaz Joseph Pleyel

      Ensemble: Italian Classical Consort

      Performer: Luigi Magistrelli

    11. IV. Rondo: Allegro

      Composer: Ignaz Joseph Pleyel

      Ensemble: Italian Classical Consort

      Performer: Luigi Magistrelli

    12. II. Andante grazioso

      Composer: Ignaz Joseph Pleyel

      Ensemble: Italian Classical Consort

      Performer: Luigi Magistrelli

    13. III. Rondo: Allegretto

      Composer: Ignaz Joseph Pleyel

      Ensemble: Italian Classical Consort

      Performer: Luigi Magistrelli

    14. Variations in F Major on a Theme of Pleyel

      Composer: Antonin Myslik

      Ensemble: Italian Classical Consort

      Performer: Luigi Magistrelli

    15. Behind Yon Hills

      Composer: Ignaz Joseph Pleyel

      Ensemble: Italian Classical Consort

      Performer: Luigi Magistrelli

    16. The Smiling Morn

      Composer: Ignaz Joseph Pleyel

      Ensemble: Italian Classical Consort

      Performer: Luigi Magistrelli


Ignaz Pleyel (1757–1831) was one of the most multifaceted artists of all time, being active in various fields as a composer, performer, publisher and piano builder. Born in Lower Austria, he became the pupil of Joseph Haydn in Eisenstadt, who considered him to be a superb student. In 1791, due to the French Revolution, musical performances in churches and public concerts were abolished, so Pleyel travelled to London searching for a better place to work. Pleyel was a quite prolific composer, writing at least 42 symphonies, 70 string quartets and several operas. Recent scholarship has suggested that the theme for the St. Anthony Variations Op.56a by Johannes Brahms was probably composed not by Haydn but by Ignaz Pleyel. The beautiful and cheerful Quintet in C for piano and winds is in a pleasant, early-classical Viennese style, reminding us of the previous masterpieces for the same medium by Mozart and Beethoven. An arrangement for Wind Octet of this work is preserved at the Fürstlich Fürstenbergische Hofbibliothek Donaueschingen in Germany.

The manuscript of the Due Duetti for clarinet and viola has so far never been published. The Trio Op.20 No.1 for two clarinets and bassoon is an arrangement from one of Pleyel’s flute and string trios. The two short songs Behind yon Hills and The smiling Morn, from the Original Scottish Airs, are originally for soprano and piano, but the clarinet replaces the singer with a similarly expressive and beautiful result. The Variations in F on a Theme of Pleyel is a piece arranged for three clarinets by Antonín Myslík, taken from the Quartet in F by Franz Krommer (1759–1831). Mozart praised Pleyel’s compositions in a letter written to his father.