Beethoven: Music for Winds David Shifrin (Various Artists)

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): March in B-Flat Major, WoO 29:
• 1 March in B-Flat Major, WoO 29 "Grenadier" 01:23
• Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 103:
• 2 Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 103: I. Allegro 07:32
• 3 Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 103: II. Andante 06:41
• 4 Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 103: III. Menuetto 03:23
• 5 Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 103: IV. Finale. Presto 03:43
• Sextet in E-Flat Major, Op. 71:
• 6 Sextet in E-Flat Major, Op. 71: I. Adagio - Allegro 09:55
• 7 Sextet in E-Flat Major, Op. 71: II. Adagio 03:44
• 8 Sextet in E-Flat Major, Op. 71: III. Menuetto. Quasi allegretto 02:44
• 9 Sextet in E-Flat Major, Op. 71: IV. Rondo. Allegro 03:41
• Rondino in E-Flat Major, WoO 25:
• 10 Rondino in E-Flat Major, WoO 25 07:06
• Total Runtime 49:52

Info for Beethoven: Music for Winds

Music for wind ensemble was a regular part of entertainment in Beethoven’s day, and his Octet was composed for the skilled players in the service of his patron, the Archbishop-Elector in Bonn. The charming and skilfully written Sextet is also ‘from my early things and, what’s more, was written in one night’; impressing a critic of the time ‘by its splendid melodies, leisurely harmonic flow, and wealth of new and surprising ideas’. Wind partitas often opened with a March, and the Rondino was originally intended as the Finale to the Octet, two suitable pieces to complete this fashionable Beethoven soirée.

David Shifrin, clarinet
Paul Wonjin Cho, clarinet
Frank Morelli, bassoon
Marissa Olegario, bassoon
William Purvis, horn
Lauren Hunt, horn
Stephen Taylor, oboe
Hsuan-Fong Chen, oboe
Marissa Olegario, bassoon

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