Music for a Viennese Salon: Haydn • Kraus • Dittersdorf

Summary:

“Playing on period instruments, Night Music favour for the most part brisk tempos and neat articulation. The real curiosity is Dittersdorf’s Duetto…Playing an eight-keyed flute, Steven Zohn’s clarity of tone is a delight in both the Kraus and Haydn. In the latter, the performers bring an infectious swing to the Minuet and a credibly symphonic sweep to the finale” – BBC Music Magazine

“The Allegro moderato of Joseph Martin Kraus’s Quintet in D that opens the album is an unexpected gem. Most extraordinary are the full orchestral textures that this band create…Night Music are most successful in flirting between the two domains that this scoring allows, retreating from orchestral richness into lucid chamber music textures for clever and persuasive effect” – Gramophone

“[Kraus] A lengthy (14-minute) opening Allegro moderato bubbles over with lively high spirits, a Largo—sounding nearly andante—is loaded with charm, and a Con brio finale returns to the high spirits” – Fanfare Magazine

Philadelphia-based period-instrument ensemble Night Music recreates an afternoon of music making from October 1801 at the Austrian capital’s Palais Arnstein, with a flamboyant Quintet for flute and strings by Joseph Kraus, a duo by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf for the unusual combination of viola and double bass, and a chamber arrangement – by the impresario Johann Peter Salomon in the same instrumentation as the Kraus Quintet – of perhaps the most notorious of symphonic surprises.

Tracklist:

JOSEPH MARTIN KRAUS (1756–1792)
Quintet in D, VB 188, for flute and strings
1. I. Allegro moderato (14.12)
2. II. Largo (7.09)
3. III. Finale: con brio (6.40)

CARL DITTERS VON DITTERSDORF (1739–1799)
Duetto in E-flat, Kr. 219, for viola and violone
4. I. Allegro (4.40)
5. II. Menuetto I (2.47)
6. III. Adagio (2.47)
7. IV. Menuetto II (2.20)
8. V. Andante: Tema con variazioni (3.33)

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN (1732–1809)
Symphony in G, Hob. I:94, “Surprise” (arr. Johann Peter Salomon for flute and strings)
9. I. Adagio – Vivace assai (7.36)
10. II. Andante (6.16)
11. III. Menuetto (4.39)
12. IV. Allegro di molto (4.04)

Total duration: 66.46

Night Music
Steven Zohn, flute
Rebecca Harris; Marika Holmqvist, violins
Daniel Elyar, viola | Rebecca Humphrey Diederich, cello
Heather Miller Lardin, violone

Recorded 27–29 August 2018, Immanuel Highlands Episcopal Church, Wilmington, Delaware
Producer: Erin Banholzer | Engineer: Loren Stata

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