Camerata Nordica

Britten: Frank Bridge Variations - Lachrymae - Elegy for Strings - Simple Symphony - Two Portraits

Terje Tønnesen

Introduction and Theme

Variation 1: Adagio

Variation 2: March

Variation 3: Romance

Variation 4: Aria Italiana

Variation 5: Bouree Classique

Variation 6: Wiener Waltzer

Variation 7: Moto Perpetuo

Variation 8: Funeral March

Variation 9: Chant

Variation 10: Fugue and Finale

I. Boisterous Bouree

II. Playful Pizzicato

III. Sentimental Sarabande

IV. Frolicsome Finale

Catherine Bullock

Lachrymae, Op. 48a

No. 1. David Layton: Poco presto

No. 2. E.B.B.: Poco lento

Elegy for Strings

Christian Lindberg

Georg Philipp Telemann

Musica Vitae

Lindberg and Strings

Lindberg: Music for Trombone and Strings

The Ultimate Baroque

Best of Georg Philip Telemann

Up to and including Mozart, one important task for every composer not employed by the Church was to entertain. Much of Mozart’s best-loved music consists of occasional works intended for receptions and parties, balls and banquets, ceremonies and celebrations. These pieces are known to us under a number of different names: serenades, divertimenti, Nachtmusik and notturni are just some examples. in so far as these are genres, the distinctions between them are often blurred and many of them seem to have been used more or less interchangeably. But when the music is so fresh and immediate, labelling it becomes less important. in 1778, Leopold Mozart – who never missed an opportunity to impart his wisdom – wrote to his son describing what characterizes a successful piece: ‘Short, easy and popular… written in a natural, flowing and easy style – and at the same time bearing the marks of sound composition.’ That this recipe was something Wolfgang had already mastered six years earlier becomes obvious when one listens to any of the three Divertimentos recorded here, and it’s equally clear that he hadn’t forgotten it when he composed Eine kleine Nachtmusik ten years later. What Leopold doesn’t mention is playfulness, another quality that Mozart had in spades, and which Terje Tonnesen and his Camerata Nordica explore in their performances, allowing a plaintive Swedish nyckelharpa (‘keyed fiddle’) to be heard in the trio section in Eine kleine Nachtmusik and giving the timpanist an opportunity to rock the party in the closing rondo of Serenata notturna.

Mozart: Serenata notturna, 3 Divertimenti & Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Visions fugitives & Other Music for Strings

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Britten: Frank Bridge Variations - Lachrymae - Elegy for Strings - Simple Symphony - Two Portraits

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