This live recording, made at the 1995 Salzburg Festival, has a sweet string sound that diverges from many of the more muscular interpretations of Classical-period music that have come along since then. Its strongest point is an unusual realization of a work from a necessarily neglected corner of Haydn's output. The recording features recorder player Frans Brüggen in his less-well-known incarnation as conductor, but his original instrument is not entirely absent. Sample some of the opening work on the program, that billed as ...
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This live recording, made at the 1995 Salzburg Festival, has a sweet string sound that diverges from many of the more muscular interpretations of Classical-period music that have come along since then. Its strongest point is an unusual realization of a work from a necessarily neglected corner of Haydn's output. The recording features recorder player Frans Brüggen in his less-well-known incarnation as conductor, but his original instrument is not entirely absent. Sample some of the opening work on the program, that billed as the Concerto in G major, Hob. 7/3. It is one of five concertos for the lira organizzata, a bizarre hybrid of portable organ and lyre-like stringed instrument. The works were written in 1786 for the King of Naples, who enjoyed playing unclassifiable contraption, but despite having such high-powered patrons the instrument fell into neglect. Probably because of the difficulty of keeping one in playable condition, none survive. Brüggen proposes the combination of recorder and viola da...
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