Release date → May 2020
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Acclaimed for its historically-based approach, and specialising in music from the eighteenth century, the Edinburgh-based chamber ensemble performs Mozart’s powerful Serenade in C minor, K. 388. This wind serenade (here with added double-bass) marks a shocking break from tradition, an unprecedented experiment into the genre’s capability for dramatic sophistication. The work’s Stygian tonality with sombre unisons and macabre intervals, banishes all preconceptions of Harmoniemusik as ‘easy-listening’. The E flat major music in the Andante (a far more typical key for outdoor entertainments) provides a chiaroscuro foil to the Sturm und Drang. With its memorable dissonances and cleverly written mirror canon, the Menuetto in canone demands our full and immediate attention and demonstrates the ingenuity that characterises Mozart’s writing. The final movement is a theme with eight variations, with the composer’s operatic genius on full display; only at the eleventh hour, in the final variation, does the mask of C minor drop away – Mozart dusting his hands of his experiment and releasing the winds back into their natural habitat in a final C major outburst.
The Edinburgh-based chamber group comprises the best of a new generation of musicians specialising in early music across Europe. Ensemble Marsyas has appeared at Wigmore Hall, the Göttingen International Handel Festival, the East Neuk and Lammermuir Festivals, the Great Music in Irish Houses Festival and the Zelenka Festival in Prague. Ensemble Marsyas’ previous recordings of Barsanti, Zelenka, Fasch and Handel each received several five star reviews. Ensemble Marsays comprises Emmanuel Laporte, Rodrigo Gutiérrez (oboe), Nicola Boud, Katherine Spencer (clarinet), Alec Frank-Gemmill, Joseph Walters (horn), Peter Whelan, Julien Debordes (bassoon) and Christine Sticher (double bass). Peter Whelan is among the most exciting and versatile exponents of historical performance of his generation, having forged a remarkable career as conductor, keyboardist and virtuoso bassoonist. Peter Whelan is Artistic Director of Irish Baroque Orchestra and founding Artistic Director of Ensemble Marsyas.

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