Around Mozart: A Journey through the Golden Age of the Oboe Quartet | Arcana A482

Around Mozart: A Journey through the Golden Age of the Oboe Quartet

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Label: Arcana

Cat No: A482

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 22nd January 2021

Contents

Artists

Quartetto Bernardini

Artists

Quartetto Bernardini

About

With its debut recording, the Bernardini Quartet takes us on a journey into the golden age of its formation, consisting of oboe, violin, viola and cello. The programme consists of a selection of exemplary pieces written between 1780 and 1818 by composers of different nationalities who are united by their diversity. Alongside Alfredo and Cecilia Bernardini, father and daughter, respectively oboist/director and first violin of the Ensemble Zefiro, the members are the German violist Simone Jandl and the Dutch cellist Marcus van den Munckhof.

The programme begins with one of the earliest quartets for these forces, by Johann Christian Bach; continues with Mozart’s Quartet K370/360b, a milestone of the genre, followed by a romance with variations by the French composer Charles Bochsa, a substantial four-movement quartet by the cellist Dotzauer and a delightful little quartet by Alessandro Rolla, violinist and conductor of La Scala, Milan; and ends with a meditative perpetual canon by the Bohemian Georg Druschetzky, based on a famous Lutheran chorale. For the occasion, Alfredo Bernardini used five different period oboes.

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