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Mozart world premiere recording<\/p>\n
The music on this release is among the most loved artworks of the world. Today we know them mostly with the clarinet as the solo instrument, but Mozart wrote for a different instrument \u2013 an instrument with the same range as the viola. Prepare for an enlightening and refreshing approach to Mozart.<\/p>\n
The clarinet was still in the process of evolution as Mozart was writing, and he designed the Quintet and Concerto for the instrument developed by his friend and fellow Freemason, the clarinet virtuoso Anton Stadler (1753-1812); the \u201cbassett clarinet\u201d. This instrument was no success, but of course Mozart\u2019s music lived on \u2013 although in arrangements for other solo instruments made after his death. Mozart\u2019s original solo part for the concerto is today vanished. For the solo part to be playable on the clarinet, the arranger had to do adaptations of the melodic material.<\/p>\n
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The music on this release is among the most loved artworks of the world. Today we know them mostly with the clarinet as the solo instrument, but Mozart wrote for a different instrument \u2013 an instrument with the same range as the viola. Prepare for an enlightening and refreshing approach to Mozart.<\/p>\n
Now we release for the first time on CD a viola version, dating from 1802-03 when it was published by Johann Andr\u00e9 in Offenbach-am-Main. Given that the viola has the same ambitus as the bassett clarinet, reaching a third below the clarinet, the unknown arranger of this viola version could keep much of the original solo part without re-writing. The source of this arrangement remains a mystery, although musicologists speculate in names like Beethoven and Hummel.<\/p>\n
This is a brilliant adaption of Mozart\u2019s clarinet quintet, where the solopart is divided between the solo viola and the first violin. The result is a remarkable string quintet with elegant exchanges between violin, cello and viola characterize the movement as it progresses; the highly contrapuntal writing of the development section (in which each string instrument gives its version of the viola\u2019s opening phrase) testifies to Mozart\u2019s recent study of J.S. Bach, which had its effect on all his late music.<\/p>\n
Lars Anders Tomter belong in the international elite of soloists, touring all over the world. He is also Professor of viola at the Norwegian Academy of Music, and Artistic Director of the Ris\u00f8r Chamber Music Festival together with Leif Ove Andsnes. Arvid Engeg\u00e5rd conducts the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra in a live recording from the Aula in Oslo, and Henning Kraggerud leads a quartet of first rate string players \u2013 including the cellist Christian Polt\u00e9ra.<\/p>\n
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