PENTATONE releases Mozart Symphonies Nos. 29 & 33, Clarinet Concerto, together with Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck and Ernst Schlader, in September 2024.
Historically-informed Mozart Of The Highest Order
The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin continues its PENTATONE Mozart series with the composer’s 29th and 33rd symphonies. These works are coupled with his ravishingly beautiful Clarinet Concerto, performed by Ernst Schlader in the original edition for basset clarinet. Schlader, a specialist in historical instruments, has written an essay on the basset clarinet for the album booklet that includes a rare historical image showing the original shape of the instrument used in the years after the concerto’s premiere. The first release of this series was longlisted for the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.
The Akademie für Alte Musik is generally seen as one of the best period-instruments ensembles of today, and has a substantial PENTATONE discography, including CANTATA with Bejun Mehta (2018), Handel’s Concerti grossi Op. 3 and 6 (released in 2019 and 2020), Telemann’s Miriways (2020), Handel’s Messiah (2020), Haydn’s L’isola disabitata (2021), La Passione with Christina Landshamer (2022), a recording of Mozart’s Paris and Haffner symphonies and Oboe Concerto with Xenia Löffler (2023), and Telemann’s Ino (2024).
“Thanks to its striking bell, which is reminiscent of a hollowed- out ball, the basset clarinet also has a suggestive and intimate sound. At the time, playing quietly was considered a specialty of Stadler, about whom people wrote with admiration that ‘one almost believes he doesn’t blow.’”
Ernst Schlader & Linus Bickmann Excerpts from the liner notes
Digital Release Date: 13 SEPTEMBER 2024
Physical Release: SEPTEMBER 2024
Released as a standard CD and in digital formats for streaming and high-resolution downloads
