The Revolutionary Drawing Room - A Viennese Quartet Party (2014)

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Title: A Viennese Quartet Party
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Omnibus Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 01:58:21
Total Size: 605 Mb
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Tracklist:

CD 1:
1 - The Author's early life and travels
Johann Baptist Vanhal string quartet in E flat major (1786)
2 - Allegro con fuoco
3 - Adagio
4 - Allegro
5 - A visit to Haydn at Eisenstadt
Joseph Haydn string quartet in B flat major Op 50 No. 1
6 - Allegro
7 - Adagio
8 - Menuetto - Poco Allegretto
9 - Finale - Vivace Assai

CD 2:
10 - The Author makes the acquaintance of Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart string quartet in C major K 465
11 - Adagio - Allegro
12 - Andante cantabile
13 - Menuetto
14 - Allegro molto
15 - The Author meets two violin virtuosi - and a discordant idiot!
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf string quartet No. 6 in A major
16 - Moderato
17 - Menuetto - Larghetto with Alternativo
18 - Finale - Presto with Alternativo

Performers:
The Revolutionary Drawing Room - Period Instruments

Our new recording of quartets by Haydn, Mozart, Vanhal and Dittersdorf who played quartets together in Vienna in 1784. Michael Kelly, the Irish tenor who was the original stammering Don Curzio in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, tells us in his Reminiscences about the occasion and we are delighted that the world-famous actor, Simon Russell Beale, has recorded a script for us, adapted from Kelly, which sets the scene.