Chamber Music Recital / Symphoniker Hamburg
Scheidt / Holborne / Mozart
As bold as brass
An energetic trip through the centuries – with a brass ensemble made up of members of the Symphoniker Hamburg: An Early Baroque declaration of war from the pen of Samuel Scheidt is followed by a suite by Anthony Holborne. In the late 16th century, Holborne was a prominent figure – and at the same time suspected of being a charlatan: he claimed to be in the service of Queen Elizabeth I as a private musician. He died in London in 1602 – allegedly of a cold.
After what is probably one of Mozart’s loveliest melodies – his heartfelt motet »Ave verum corpus«, we hear a wind quintet by Viktor Ewald (1860–1935), a »part-time composer« who worked as a professor of civil engineering in St. Petersburg for 20 years. For Ewald, composing was something he did in his spare time, though one cannot hear that in his music.
The final item on tonight’s programme is a ragtime piece written by the American composer Luckey Roberts (1887–1968). Roberts must have had abnormally large hands: he is regarded as the inventor of the »stride piano style«, where the left hand has to play extremely wide chord fingering in the middle of the keyboard, and supplement it with sturdy octaves in the bass line.
Performers
Blechbläserensemble der Symphoniker Hamburg
Programme
Samuel Scheidt
Galliard Battaglia / Bearbeitung für Blechbläserensemble von Frigyes Varasdy
Anthony Holborne
Suite
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ave verum corpus / Motette KV 618
Victor Ewald
Quintett Nr. 1 op. 5
Jan Koetsier
Quintett op. 65
Leonard Bernstein
Make Our Garden Grow / Candide
Paul Nagle
Jive for Five
Luckey Roberts
Junk man Rag
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