The chamber ensemble Night Music gets extra points for the program here: in a historical performance landscape full of hypothetical programs, the group has unearthed and performed an actual one. It took place in Vienna in 1801 at a salon attended by Caroline Pichler, already a noted historical novelist. Some of her comments are included, and she was a perceptive observer. The music is neither light background stuff nor on the progressive cutting edge that one would hear a few years later when Beethoven attended Pichler's ...
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The chamber ensemble Night Music gets extra points for the program here: in a historical performance landscape full of hypothetical programs, the group has unearthed and performed an actual one. It took place in Vienna in 1801 at a salon attended by Caroline Pichler, already a noted historical novelist. Some of her comments are included, and she was a perceptive observer. The music is neither light background stuff nor on the progressive cutting edge that one would hear a few years later when Beethoven attended Pichler's salons. The standout is probably the Quintet for flute and strings in D major of composer Joseph Martin Kraus, with its sizable and well-organized 14-minute opening movement. The Duetto for viola and violone of Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf was a light work of the moment; Dittersdorf had died two years earlier, and his autobiography seems to have been a kind of book club entry for the salon. The Duetto is a delicate little divertimento-type work more concerned with texture than melody....
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