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  • Performer: Benjamin Britten
  • Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn
  • Audio CD (12 Jun 2000)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Decca
  • ASIN: B00004T2FS
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 272,760 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Pno Con No.2 in A, K.414: I. Allegro - Benjamin Britten
2. Pno Con No.2 in A, K.414: II. Andante - Benjamin Britten
3. Pno Con No.2 in A, K.414: II. Rondeau: Allegretto - Benjamin Britten
4. Sym No.55 in E flat 'Schoolmaster': I. Allegro Di Molto
5. Sym No.55 in E flat 'Schoolmaster': II. Adagio, Ma Semplicemente
6. Sym No.55 in E flat 'Schoolmaster': III. Menuetto - Trio
7. Sym No.55 in E flat 'Schoolmaster': IV. Finale: Presto
8. Sym No.45 in f# 'Farewell': I. Allegro Assai
9. Sym No.45 in f# 'Farewell': II. Adagio
10. Sym No.45 in f# 'Farewell': III. Menuet: Allegretto - Trio
11. Sym No.45 in f# 'Farewell': IV. Finale: Presto - Adagio
On this CD:
  1. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 12 in A
    Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performed by English Chamber Orchestra
    with Benjamin Britten

  2. Symphony No. 55, 'Schoolmaster' in E flat
    Composed by Joseph Haydn
    Performed by English Chamber Orchestra
    Conducted by Benjamin Britten

  3. Symphony No. 45, 'Farewell' in F sharp minor
    Composed by Joseph Haydn
    Performed by English Chamber Orchestra
    Conducted by Benjamin Britten

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A contemporary reviewer of Britten's Mozart once wrote, "He plays a Mozart concerto ... not merely as if he had written it, but as if he had written it last night". And listening to this disc, with two of Haydn's finest symphonies flanking the idyllic A-major concerto, those words seem peculiarly apt. The concerto's slow movement has a sepulchral, almost hymn-like feel to it: one genius in communion with another? And the relationship between soloist and orchestra (Britten directs from the keyboard) has all the intimacy and spontaneity of the best chamber music. The concerto is brought to an explosive climax with a finale of exuberant good humour. On the down side, it should be noted that this is a live performance and not always note-perfect, and there is also some slight distortion of pitch near the beginning of the first movement. The sound quality of the Haydn symphonies (also recorded in 1956) is better. Again one senses Britten's empathy with the composer, whether with his lighter side (try the "question and answer" slow movement of No.55) or his sheer feeling for drama which tends to get lost in our image of the jocular "Papa Haydn"--witness the pace and fervour of the outer movements of the "Farewell". It wasn't only Mozart whom Britten performed as if he'd written it himself the night before. --Harriet Smith

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4.0 out of 5 stars Modern discovery of Classical virtues., 2 Oct 2000
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Review of Decca disc Catalogue no. 4588692; ASIN B00004T2FS

Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 45 55; Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 12.

Of several important advantages presented by the long-awaited appearance of this disc, perhaps the most valuable is the opportunity to study what one front-rank composer can reveal in two of his most illustrious predecessors. Despite the monumental achievement of H.C. Robbins Landon Haydn is again undergoing something of an eclipse. The Proms of 1997, 98 and again this year didn't distinguish themselves by only including one each of the symphonies, but this reappearance of the "Farewell" and especially "The Schoolmaster" is some appeasement. The former has not fared too badly for versions over the years since Sir Henry Wood recorded it before the 2nd World War on a set of Columbia 78's and Britten's reading is one of several worthy successors. No.55 (1774) doesn't have its striking originality; the composer had by now come down from the extraordinary peaks of "Sturm und Drang" and in "The Schoolmaster" was no longer expressing himself in such a frenetic style. What matters is what he does with this blander material. Two variation movements in a 20-minute work might look daunting, but the slow movement, deliberately dry and affecting pedantry, but so artfully humorous (believed to be a portrait of a schoolmaster in love!), is stylistically poles apart from the delightfully exhilarating finale. Britten secures a vigorous firm control throughout. The false recapitulation in the first movement really makes its point and the poetic lines of the Trio, where Haydn, as so often, writes an enchanting part for solo cello, make the intended contrast with the rather academic minuet. Two attractively performed earlier Haydn symphonies in perceptive performances are gift enough but the "cup runneth over" with the inclusion of the earlier of Mozart's two A major Piano Concertos. This is always likely to be overshadowed in popular esteem by the uncanny brilliance of K488. But every Mozart concerto is indispensable, the more so here since Benjamin himself is the soloist and we all know what intense vigilance was the hallmark of his keyboard style.

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