Beethoven: Große Fuge; Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Handel: Concerto grosso

Beethoven: Große Fuge; Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Handel: Concerto grosso

Beethoven: Große Fuge; Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Handel: Concerto grosso
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Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer: George Frederick Handel
Conductor: Otto Klemperer
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra of London
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-01-16
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
  1. Grosse Fuge In B Flat Op. 133
  2. Adagio And Fugue In C Minor K546
  3. I. Marcia (Maestoso)
  4. II. Minuetto & Trio
  5. III. Rondo (Allegretto - Adagio - Allegro)
  6. I. Allegro
  7. II. Romance (Andante)
  8. III. Minuetto (Allegretto) & Trio
  9. IV. Rondo (Allegro)
  10. I. Larghetto Affettuoso
  11. II. Allegro
  12. III. Largo E Piano
  13. IV. Allegro

Music reviews of Beethoven: Große Fuge; Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Handel: Concerto grosso

Music Review: A Grosse Fuge full of power and clarity
Rating: 5 Stars

The gem here is Klemperer's conducting of Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, a transcription for string orchestra adapted from the string quartet Op. 130. The composer's conception is so gigantic, so full of struggle and complexity, that it can barely be contained inside the bounds of four instruments. A setting for a larger-voiced, more replete ensemble made sense to the Romantic sensibility; therefore, we ahve a number of recordings from Bernstein, Furtwangler (there's even a video)et al. Klemperer's is among the most cogent and varied. He doesn't simply plunge in to create a granitic monument -- almost the opposite. His reading adds gentleness and nuance to contrast with power. I found it a great performance that clarified a very knotty work.

The rest of the music, all for strings, is more problematic. The Adagio and Fugue is simply massive, so anachronistic that it leaves Mozart far behind. There are lighter moments in eine Kleine Nachtmusik and the Serenate Notturna, but neither could be called light-handed. The Handel Concerto Grosso that ends the program is broad and courtly; again, very far from the composer's world but very nice on its own terms. But in the end, the great performance on this CD, which is in excellent sound, by the way, is the Beethoven.
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