The SCO Wind Soloists comprise Maximiliano Martín and William Stafford on clarinet, Peter Whelan and Alison Green on bassoon, Alec Frank-Gemmill and Harry Johnstone on horn and Robin Williams and Rosie Staniforth on oboe. Another gem is the short but sweet Rondino, which is full of subtle details, exquisite melodies and exhilaratingly high-speed horn playing. In the Sextet, Beethoven exploits the differing characteristics of each instrument to great effect with the SCO’s legendary interplay on full display. The underrated Octet is a technically challenging concert piece in the Mozart tradition, but with the flair and unpredictability of the young Beethoven. The Rondino is thought to have been written around the same time as the Octet for wind Op.103, and may even be a discarded movement from it, given that it shares the same key (E flat major), instrumentation and composition period (either very late in the Bonn period or 1793). Continuing to explore the Harmoniemusik repertoire, the Wind Soloists’ new recording features youthful, entertaining and brilliant music by a young man who took Vienna by storm in the 1790s: Ludwig van Beethoven.Īll around the world, critics cheered the SCO Wind Soloists’ previous album of Mozart Divertimenti: "superb in every way" ( Fanfare),"a joy from start to finish" ( Europadisc), "sparkles with joy and chuckles with good humour" ( BBC Radio 3 ‘Record Review’).
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