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Mozart - Shapeshifter K581 | Vlad Records VR010

Mozart - Shapeshifter K581

Label: Vlad Records

Cat No: VR010

Barcode: 8714835112259

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 22nd January 2016

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Terra Nova Collectief Antwerpen wants to draw the music lover’s attention to these forgotten arrangements, by putting the original work together with the historical arrangement in a single concert programme. This gives you the chance not only to discover something new but also to experience a famous masterpiece from an unfamiliar perspective. The arrangement of the Clarinet Quintet for clarinet and piano La Grande Sonate pour le piano-forte avec accompagé d’un [sic] Clarinette ou Violon obligé was published under this somewhat defective title in Vienna by Artaria in 1809. The name of the arranger is unknown and it is unclear what the source for the transcription was. After some years, alternative arrangements became available for string quartet, flute quintet with two violas and for piano duet.

The instrument used for this CD recording and featured on the cover is called a basset clarinet: a special clarinet for which Mozart composed. The basset clarinet is a clarinet in C, B flat or A whose range is extended downward to written C, similar to the basset horn. It includes thumb keys to extend the lowest notes as found on the bassoon and basset horn. It is interesting to musicians today because it is used in three works by Mozart: the B flat basset clarinet obbligato solo in “Parto, parto ma tu ben mio” from La Clemenza di Tito (1791) and the A basset clarinet parts in both the Quintet for clarinet and strings, K581 (1789) and the Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, K622 (1791). These works were written for Anton Stadler, a clarinettist employed in 1781 in the Vienna Court orchestra and Harmonie or wind band. Beginning in 1782, Theodor Lotz of Pressburg made clarinets for Anton Stadler and his brother, Johann, also employed by the Court. Lotz became the Vienna Court instrument maker in 1785 and worked with Anton Stadler to construct his invention: an extended range clarinet in 1788, now called the basset clarinet.

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