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GA Schneider - 3 Flute Concertos | CPO 5553902

GA Schneider - 3 Flute Concertos

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Label: CPO

Cat No: 5553902

Barcode: 0761203539024

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 6th May 2022

Contents

Artists

Gaby Pas-Van Riet (flute)
Wurtttemberg Kammerorchester Heilbronn

Conductor

Johannes Moesus

Works

Schneider, Georg Abraham

Flute Concerto in A minor, op.53
Flute Concerto in E minor, op.63
Flute Concerto in G major, op.12

Artists

Gaby Pas-Van Riet (flute)
Wurtttemberg Kammerorchester Heilbronn

Conductor

Johannes Moesus

About

Georg Abraham Schneider was born in Darmstadt in the same year as Beethoven. His musical talent became apparent at a very early age, and after an educational trip to Rheinsberg, he was engaged by Prince Heinrich of Prussia as a horn player for the Rheinsberg Chapel. The composer Schneider is a representative of the spirit of Haydn and Mozart, who wanted to be understood as their preserver. In the reviews, he was attested to compositional skill and a dignified artistry that was committed to the bourgeois taste of the time. Schneider wrote a remarkably large number of compositions for flute, including four flute concertos, about 90 flute duets, and 60 quartets for flute and string trio.

The charming, very light-hearted, three-movement Flute Concerto op.12 is in classical concerto form, and the Mozart model is clearly audible. His Concerto op.53 conforms to the classical scheme of the instrumental concerto, with ample opportunity for soloist Gaby Pas-Van Riet to display her virtuosity. The work charms with lovely delicate themes that offer the flute every opportunity to explore the instrument's tonal spectrum. In the Concerto op.63, printed in Leipzig in 1812, the orchestra is augmented with two trumpets and timpani in addition to the double instrumentation of oboes, bassoons and horns. Schneider here demonstrates his ability to orchestrate a concerto well and to use the winds effectively.

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