Roberto Sensi - Divertimenti 1 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Boccherini Divertimenti, Op. 16, Vol. 2 / Sensi, Piccolo Concerto Wien, Composer Luigi Boccherini, Conductor Roberto Sensi, Orchestra/Ensemble Piccolo Concerto Wien, Number of Discs 1, CREDITS Cello [Violoncello] - Franziska Romaner, Stefano Veggetti, Composed By - Luigi Boccherini, Double Bass - Roberto Sensi, Ensemble - Piccolo Concerto Wien, Flute [Transverse Flute] - Marcello Gatti, Illustration [Front Illustration] - Francisco Goya, Producer, Engineer [Recording Engineer], Photography By - Roberto Meo, Producer, Recording Supervisor, Edited By [Digital Editing] - Sigrid Lee, Viola - Johanna Gamerith, Violin - Jenping Chen, Johanna Gamerith

Mozart The Divertimenti, Vol. 1, Mozart / Octophoros / Dombrecht, Date 09/03/2013, Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Orchestra/Ensemble Octophoros, Octophoros (Performer), oboe Paul Dombrecht, oboe Marcel Ponseele, Horns Claude Maury, horns Piet Dombrecht, bassoon Danny Bond, bassoon Donna Agrell, Venue O. L. Vrouwe Kerk, Gistel, Date of Recording 09/1988, Number of Discs 1.

All three composers gathered together on this unique compilation were active in Vienna in the last half of the 18th century, and all had mastered the craft of writing music for pleasure - as much in the playing as the listening - rather than devotion or edification. They were also expert string players - Dittersdorf and Vanhal formed the other two members of a famous 'composers' quartet' that included Joseph Haydn (younger brother to Michael) and Mozart - and so wrote these divertimentos from the inside, as it were. The Divertimenti included in the album were composed in the 1760s. They are all fairly brief, multi-movement pieces, easy on the ear and of fairly simple construction, with the first violin taking the lion's share of the melody. However, a little closer listening will reveal many small refinements in the secondary parts (viola e violone), which not only support the main part, but interact with it in lively musical conversation an inter-instrumental dialogue which is particularly emphasized in this recording. Michael Haydn's C major Divertimento P.110 has the most conventional, four-movement structure, whereas Vanhal's symmetrical design encloses a lovely Adagio within a pair of minuets, a free-flowing first movement and a syncopated finale bristling with energy and high spirits. The six trios by Dittersdorf are all two-movement pieces, pairing a quick introduction with a gentler minuet. The common but unusual element to the scoring of all the music on this album is the absence of cello in the basso continuo role, which is written down the octave to be played by a violone or double bass. This often creates a gruff or humorous character - especially in Michael Haydn's Divertimento - but Vanhal in particular requires a musician of agility to zip up and down the instrument and writes for it as a deeper cello.