Project
Music for Fortepiano & Winds from the Biedermeier Salon
The recording · 2024 · CD
„Der meint‘ es treu!“: Music for Fortepiano & Winds from the Biedermeier Salon
Tracklist, streaming and the CD are on the album page.
This album explores music for fortepiano and solo winds from the Biedermeier period, the cultural flowering of Central Europe between 1815 and 1848. In these years, often associated with German Romanticism, music became accessible to the middle classes and was played above all at home. Recreating that atmosphere, chamber musicians of Das Neue Mannheimer Orchester – Anders Muskens (fortepiano), Elia Celegato (clarinet) and Florencia Gómez (flute) – perform works by Hummel, Mendelssohn, Schubert and Schumann on an original square pianoforte by Johann Gottlieb Irmler (Leipzig, 1823) and historical wind instruments.
Programme
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837) Sonata for Flute and Pianoforte in D major, Op. 50 (1810)
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847) Sonata for Clarinet and Pianoforte in E-flat major, MWV Q 15
- Franz Schubert (1797–1828) Introduction and Variations on “Trockne Blumen”, D. 802
- Robert Schumann (1810–1856) Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
Musicians and credits
Musicians
- Anders Muskens fortepiano
- Elia Celegato historical clarinet
- Florencia Gómez historical flute
Instruments
- Square pianoforte (Tafelklavier) by Johann Gottlieb Irmler, Leipzig, 1823. Six octaves, FF–f⁗; damper and moderator pedals; restored by Bart Houtgraaf, 2021
- Transverse flute after Grenser (late 18th–early 19th century), in four parts, by Rudolf Tutz, Innsbruck, 2014
- Clarinets in B-flat (2017) and A (2015), 12 keys, by Rudolf Tutz, Innsbruck
- All instruments at a = 430 Hz
Production
- Producer and audio engineer Jakub Klimeš
- Recorded Lutherse Kerk, Delft, May–June 2021
- Label Leaf Music Distribution
