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Special offer. Vienna Mandolin Stories

Alon Sariel (mandolin), Kölner Akademie (chamber ensemble)

Michael Alexander Willens

Vienna Mandolin Stories
Sariel’s near-complete mastery of the mandolin and its music is evident in every bar, and comparisons with Avi Avital are predictable yet warranted

Gramophone Magazine, June 2025

Special offer. Vienna Mandolin Stories

Alon Sariel (mandolin), Kölner Akademie (chamber ensemble)

Michael Alexander Willens

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Sariel’s near-complete mastery of the mandolin and its music is evident in every bar, and comparisons with Avi Avital are predictable yet warranted

Gramophone Magazine, June 2025

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Vienna Mandolin Stories is Alon Sariel's first full concerto album, inviting listeners on a journey through late-18th- and early-19th-century Vienna. The album features works for mandolin and orchestra by Haydn, Mozart, Krahmer, and Paisiello. While some pieces were originally composed for mandolin, others have been skillfully adapted by Sariel. The album thrives on Sariel's inventive and playful approach, as represented in "Haydn's Mandolin Concerto", an imaginative rearrangement combining movements from different concertos, including one by Malzat long misattributed to Haydn. Highlights also include the "bluegrass" cadence in the slow movement of the "Haydn" concerto and the clever nod to Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier in Sariel's arrangement of Mozart's Andante for Flute and Orchestra. Sariel brings to light Ernest Krahmer's works for mandolin and orchestra, recently found at the Bavarian State Library and recorded here for the first time. The period musicians of the Kolner Akademie, under the direction of Michael Alexander Willens, deliver an ideal soundscape for these vibrant and colorful works.

Contents and tracklist

Mozart: Andante in C major, K315 for flute and orchestra
Work length5:51
Krähmer, E: Larghetto and Rondo for Mandolin and Orchestra: I. Larghetto. Adagio
Work length2:57
Krähmer, E: Larghetto and Rondo for Mandolin and Orchestra: I. Rondo. Allegro moderato
Work length4:46
Joseph Haydn, Alon Sariel: "Haydn's Mandolin Concerto" in C Major: I. Moderato (After J. Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1)
Work length9:29
Joseph Haydn, Alon Sariel: "Haydn's Mandolin Concerto" in C Major: II. Adagio (After J. Haydn: Violin Concerto in C Major, Hob. VIIa:1)
Work length4:07
Alon Sariel, Ignaz Malzat: "Haydn's Mandolin Concerto" in C Major: III. Rondo Allegretto (After Ignaz Malzat: Oboe Concerto in C Major, mistakenly attributed to Haydn, Hob. VIIg:C1)
Work length5:27
Krähmer, E: Andantino for Mandolin and Orchestra
Work length2:37
Krähmer, E: Theme and Variations for Mandolin and Orchestra
Work length8:25
Theme. Allegretto
Track length1:28
Var. I
Track length1:04
Var. II
Track length1:18
Var. III
Track length1:20
Var. IV
Track length1:47
Var. V
Track length1:28
Paisiello: Concerto for Mandolin and Strings in C major
Work length13:10
I. Tempo giusto
Track length6:16
II. Larghetto alla Siciliana
Track length2:57
III. Allegro
Track length3:57

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June 2025

Sariel’s near-complete mastery of the mandolin and its music is evident in every bar, and comparisons with Avi Avital are predictable yet warranted
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