Kuffner - Serenades for Guitar, Flute & Viola
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96319
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 23rd July 2021
Contents
Works
Serenade for guitar, flute and viola, op.4Serenade for guitar, flute and viola, op.10
Serenade for guitar, flute and viola, op.15
Artists
Classico Terzetto ItalianoWorks
Serenade for guitar, flute and viola, op.4Serenade for guitar, flute and viola, op.10
Serenade for guitar, flute and viola, op.15
Artists
Classico Terzetto ItalianoAbout
Joseph Küffner (1776-1856) trained as a lawyer but studied the guitar and violin in his spare time. No ordinary ‘amateur’ musician, he performed concertos by Viotti and Mestrino in public, and in due course became a teacher of those instruments, then a regimental band leader; by the age of 30 he was a court musician for Archduke Ferdinand. Two years later, in 1808, his own music was first published – a set of dances for violin and guitar – but many of his surviving pieces remain in manuscript, including seven symphonies.
Most of Küffner’s music, however, was composed for his own instruments, and tailored with an eye and ear to a lucrative domestic audience. Some 25 pieces are scored for the combination of flute, viola and guitar heard on this new album, most of them serenades, fantasies or pot-pourris, all unfailingly well-crafted and cheerful in temperament. Having read through most of them, the Classico Terzetto Italiano has to record three of the most delightful. Op.4 is, unusually, cast in a minor key, though hardly tragic in mood. Op.10 is dedicated to the Grand Duke of Würzburg: a tribute from one military man to another, and quoting a march from a then-popular opera, Kreutzer’s Lodoïska. Op.15 includes a witty minuet and what sounds like a homage to Mozart closing with a virtuosic Galop which tests the guitarist’s technique with its brilliant figuration.
Formed in 2005, the Classico Terzetto Italiano comprises Ubaldo Rosso (flute), Carlo De Martini (viola) and Francesco Biraghi (guitar), all of them experienced chamber musicians and professors, whose pleasure in making music together is demonstrated by their specialism in entertainment music by the likes of Küffner and Carulli.
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