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Alec Frank-Gemmill & Alasdair Beatson - A Noble and Melancholy Instrument (2017)

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Alec Frank-Gemmill & Alasdair Beatson - A Noble and Melancholy Instrument (2017)

Alec Frank-Gemmill & Alasdair Beatson - A Noble and Melancholy Instrument (2017)
Music for horns and pianos of the 19th century
Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Franz Strauss, Gioacchino Rossini,
Camille Saint-Saëns, Alexander Glazunov, Paul Dukas, Gilbert Vinter

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 234 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 161 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-2228 SACD | Time: 01:05:56

The 19th century saw huge developments in the design of many musical instruments. In some cases changes were adopted more or less universally: the fortepiano that Mozart knew, a five-octave instrument constructed entirely of wood, had by around 1900 grown into the modern grand piano with over seven octaves and a cast-iron frame. With other instruments, progress was less streamlined. As late as 1865, the natural, valveless horn of Beethoven's time remained the instrument of choice for Brahms when he wrote his famous Horn Trio, and when valves began to be introduced, makers and musicians in Germany, France and Vienna favoured different solutions, offering different results in terms of sound and requiring different playing techniques. The present disc is a unique combination of recital and history lesson, with a young British team performing music from between 1800 and 1942 on no less than eight different historic instruments: four horns and four pianos. This gives us the opportunity to hear the works on instruments that the different composers would have recognized, whether Beethoven's Sonata in F major (a natural horn from 1800 and a fortepiano from 1815) or the Villanelle by Paul Dukas from 1906 (an early 20th-century cor à pistons and a Bechstein from 1898). Both notable performers on modern instruments, Alec Frank-Gemmill and Alasdair Beatson here revel in the sonic possibilities offered by the historic instruments with results that are as delighting as they are enlightening.

The cover for this BIS release (the title comes from Berlioz, who is not represented) may lead you to expect an ordinary recital of music for horn and piano. It's actually something more rewarding and more ambitious: a historical-performance release covering the history of its two instruments over the course of the 19th century. Each horn-piano pair is shown in photographs, with explanations in the booklet as to what the players were after. And the results are often revelatory. In the first half of the program, hornist Alec Frank-Gemmill uses a variety of natural horns. Beethoven's Horn Sonata in F major, Op. 17, is not played terribly often, but here, with a Viennese-style piano and a horn from the sonata's year of 1800, it takes on a lightness that links it to the rest of Beethoven's pastoral repertoire. Sample the quiet passage at the end of the finale, one of several places on the album where the talents of instrument maker, performer, and composer seem to converge as they might have in a successful performance of the work in its own time. Another standout is the Prelude, Theme, and Variations of Rossini, from his Sins of My Old Age collections. This work is all but unknown, but the performance here brings out the work's light virtuosity. Most of the music, in fact, has hardly been heard for a half-century, and equally, most of it has virtues that have been lost. BIS engineers, working in a German radio studio, contend successfully with a variety of challenges. Highly recommended, and not just for historical-performance buffs.

Review by James Manheim, Allmusic.com

Alec Frank-Gemmill & Alasdair Beatson - A Noble and Melancholy Instrument (2017)




Tracklist:

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata in F major for piano and horn, Op. 17
01. I. Allegro moderato (8:33)
02. II. Poco adagio, quasi andante (1:24)
03. III. Rondo. Allegro moderato (5:05)

Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Adagio and Allegro, Op.70
04. Langsam, mit innigem Ausdruck (4:05)
05. Rasch und feurig (5:06)

Franz Strauss (1822–1905)
06. Nocturno, Op.7 (5:45)

Gioacchino Rossini (1792–1868)
07. Prelude, Theme and Variations (10:29)

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
08. Romance in E major, Op.67 (7:59)

Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865–1936)
09. Rêverie, Op. 24 (3:46)

Paul Dukas (1865–1935)
10. Villanelle (6:54)

Gilbert Vinter (1909–1969)
11. Hunter's Moon (6:50)


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