Alla Turca: Romberg: Symphony No. 4 & Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5

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Release Date: 29th Jun 2018
Catalogue No: 555175-2
Label: CPO
Length: 60 minutes

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Romberg, A: Symphony No. 4 in C Major, Op. 51 'Alla turca'

Work length23:48

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$5.20

Collegium Musicum Basel
Kevin Griffiths
Recorded: 22-24 January 2017
Recording Venue: Casino Basel

I. Allegro

Track length6:57

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$1.30

II. Menuetto. Vivace

Track length4:21

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III. Andante quasi allegretto

Track length5:39

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IV. Finale. Vivace

Track length6:51

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Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K219 'Turkish'

Work length29:10

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$9.05

Julia Schröder (violin)
Collegium Musicum Basel
Kevin Griffiths
Recorded: 22-24 January 2017
Recording Venue: Casino Basel

I. Allegro aperto

Track length9:40

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$2.60

II. Adagio

Track length10:03

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$3.85

III. Rondeau. Tempo di menuetto

Track length9:27

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$2.60

Excerpt, Haydn: L'incontro improvviso, Hob. XXVIII:6

Work length7:16

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$2.60

Collegium Musicum Basel
Kevin Griffiths

Overture, Hob. Ia:6

Track length7:16

$2.00

$2.60

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Andreas Romberg explored new musical territory when he got the idea to include Turkish colour in his fourth symphony. It was not until the romantic era that Oriental or Arabian colour very deliberately was incorporated into symphonic music, whether in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade (1888) or in Engelbert Humperdinck's Maurische Rhapsodie (1898). Right in the first movement of his symphony Romberg used the title 'A la turca' to get his audience to anticipate Turkish colour. The gradually intensified initial part goes over into a passage with the expected percussion accents and swiftly whirling violin figures. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Violin Concerto in A major, the last of his five violin concertos, is also regarded as a concert piece with Turkish colour. In the rondo finale there is a famous interlude in A minor in which the violoncellists and double bassists beat the rhythm on the strings with their bow sticks. This too produces the popular 'Alla turca' flair. Our soloist is the young Swiss musician Julia Schroder, and it is not least in the swift main part of the Haydn overture that things sound 'Turkish'; here not only the timpani but also the bass drum and cymbals accentuate the rhythm. This CD also marks the inauguration of our complete recording of the symphonic music of Andreas Romberg.

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