Beethoven Transformed, Volume 1
Boxwood & Brass
The sound of this recording is spacious, clear, well balanced, and realistic, with excellent definition of the individual instruments and their timbres. This release demonstrates that the products...
Beethoven Transformed, Volume 1
Boxwood & Brass
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The sound of this recording is spacious, clear, well balanced, and realistic, with excellent definition of the individual instruments and their timbres. This release demonstrates that the products...
About
Following on from their universally acclaimed debut album, Music for a Prussian Salon, the period wind ensemble Boxwood & Brass returns to Resonus with the first of two volumes of Beethoven Transformed. In this major new project, the group explores the status of wind music in early-nineteenth century Vienna through original and arranged music by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) and his contemporaries. In this first album, Beethoven’s Op. 71 Sextet is paired with the Op. 20 Septet in E-flat major, arranged for six-part Harmonie by his prolific pupil, Carl Czerny (1791–1857). Founded in 2013, Boxwood & Brass brings together the emerging generation of British period wind-instrument players to advocate for neglected wind chamber music and harmoniemusik of the Classical and early-Romantic periods. Members of the group work regularly with top orchestras from across Europe, including the Orchestra Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Gabrieli, L’Orchestra de Champs-Elysees and Spira Mirabilis. In-depth scholarly research into style and repertoire is important to the ensemble, as is promoting the highest standards in period wind playing.
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Awards and reviews
September/October 2020
The sound of this recording is spacious, clear, well balanced, and realistic, with excellent definition of the individual instruments and their timbres. This release demonstrates that the products of Beethoven’s youth, despite his dismissive attitude toward them, have much to offer and should not be overlooked. Those who enjoy Classical chamber music for winds will find much pleasure in this disc, which is recommended.
1st December 2019
Creamy clarinets combine attractively with punchy horns and burbling bassoons to give this music a special Viennese verve.