E. T. A Hoffmann: Symphony in E flat major, Concerto Köln, Gianluca Capuano (conductor), live rec. скачать в хорошем качестве

E. T. A Hoffmann: Symphony in E flat major, Concerto Köln, Gianluca Capuano (conductor), live rec.

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann - Symphony in E flat major (1806), Concerto Köln, Gianluca Capuano (conductor), live rec. in Warsaw, August 2018 I.Adagio e maestoso – 00:00 II.Andante con moto – 09:22 III.Menuetto – 14:33 IV.Finale. Allegro molto – 17:12 Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (commonly abbreviated as E. T. A. Hoffmann; born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, the name ‘Amadeus’ was added in later life in honour of Mozart) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffmann appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Coppélia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote, while Schumann's Kreisleriana is based on Hoffmann's character Johannes Kreisler. „His musical catalogue is wide-ranging and includes many operas, a ballet, the present symphony, some chamber works, religious music and piano sonatas. The Symphony in E flat major by Hoffmann was composed during 1806 and was premiered in Warsaw on 3 August of that year. It is Haydn’s series of the ‘London’ symphonies that is the formal model. The first movement is the most thoughtful part of this symphony with some intricate working out of themes. The slow movement is finely poised and quite beautiful in its exposition of the musical material. It reflects a pastoral disposition with something a little more troubled for the middle section. The minuet and trio is typically light-hearted in spite of being in a minor key. It is almost Puck-like in its progress, although the clod-hopping of Bottom and his crew is also apparent in the vivid contrasts between phrases. The lively finale is a pleasure to hear. Interestingly, the composer makes use of a theme from the symphony’s opening movement, making it into a ‘cyclic’ work.” (by John France) Notes to the Festival Warsaw 2018: „Finally a symphony by a writer who in his role as a composer I did not know well, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, born in Koenigsberg. E.T.A. Hoffmann married a Polish woman, Maria Tekla Michalina Roher-Trzecinska and worked in Plock and Warsaw. We heard the Symphony in E flat major (‘Warsaw’) (1808) which for a composer who was a legal clerk and writer of fantasy and horror, naturally contained a great deal of heated passion, ardent themes and Polish patriotism. In many ways he was a fascinating polymath (composer, playwright, writer, caricaturist and conductor). The Adagio e maestoso was surprisingly passionately written, patriotic, declamatory and performed with surprising vitality from this small orchestra, the Andante con moto had only a few ardent phrases yearning for the inaccessible in life, the Menuetto described patriotically the Warsaw of a different age, that of civilized self-confident cosmopolitanism, while the Finale. Allegro molto was rhythmically quite inventive. This distinguished period instrument orchestra under their conductor Gianluca Capuano communicated these sentiments with what one might term 'restrained classical energy' and effectiveness.”