New Sounds for Old Winds #3 (on-demand until 7/24/2021)
$14.18
Johann Wendt — Parthia in E-flat
Johann Nepomuk Hummel — Octet-Partita in E-flat S. 48
Emily Worthington, clarinet
Fiona Mitchell, clarinet
Rachel Chaplin, oboe
Nicola Barbagli, oboe
Anneke Scott, French horn
Kate Goldsmith, French horn
Robert Percival, bassoon
Takako Kunugi, bassoon
Jacqueline Dossor, double bass
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, arr. Johann Wendt – Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro, K. 492
Johann Wendt – Parthia in E-flat
Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Octet-Partita in E-flat, S. 48
Boxwood and Brass present New Sounds for Old Winds, a feast of music celebrating the creativity of wind players in 18th-century Vienna.
More interested in the spirit of the music than the letter of the score, they would change, adapt, and arrange pieces to fit their needs. Inspired by their freedom, Boxwood & Brass will take you on a new journey through old music, including ‘disreputable’ original editions and new arrangements of Serenades, Sonatas, and Symphonies by Mozart, Beethoven, and their contemporaries – all dressed in the myriad colours of 18th-century wind instruments.
The finale of the New Sounds for Old Winds series is a celebration of the Viennese wind octet. The Emperor Josef II’s ‘kaiserlich–königlich’ or k. k. Harmonie was made up of the eight exceptional wind players who played in the orchestra at Vienna’s Burgtheater. It is often credited with driving the ‘boom’ in Harmoniemusik around the turn of the 19th Century, and was certainly imitated by other nobles in courts where Josef’s influence was felt.
Much of the k. k. Harmonie’s repertoire was created by second oboist Johann Wendt. This concert includes Wendt’s own charming Parthia in E-flat for wind octet as well as his arrangement of the overture to Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro. Wendt and his colleagues played in the premiere of the opera at the Burgtheater in 1786, it is fascinating to hear the freedom with which he adapts Mozart’s textures.
A new edition of Hummel’s Octet-Partita in E-flat completes the evening. Hummel’s tuneful work, completed in Vienna in 1803, is a late example of a ‘true’ octet without an obbligato double bass or contrabassoon part. It is heard here in a new edition based on rediscovered parts, which give far more detailed performance markings than the previously-available sources.
Established in 2013, Boxwood & Brass is a group of exceptional period wind players specialising in the wind chamber music and Harmoniemusik of the Classical and early-Romantic periods.
The broadcast will begin on 17 July 2021 at 6:30pm British Summer Time / 10:30am Pacific with on-demand video available for 7 days after the show.
Tickets: £10 / $14.18
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