Partitas Pour Octuor A Vent [CD de audio] Rotterdam Phil. Wind Ensemble and Franz Krommer

Czech composer Franz Krommer was a contemporary of Mozart and was always good at musical surprises. The inventiveness in structure and melodic direction often initially recalls conventional classical compositional forms before an unexpected turn occurs. Kindness and light-hearted humor are the most common moods with Krommer. But the melancholy that Mozart discovered in his wind works (especially in the Gran Partita) is not foreign to Krommer either. This is demonstrated by some moving slow phrases in the current recording. Most of Krommer's really high-quality works are written for wind, although during his lifetime his 70 string quartets were mentioned in one go with Haydn. Today, especially some of his beautiful clarinet concertos are popular, which document the potential that was being developed in this instrument. All 13 partitas are written for an eight-headed wind ensemble. The current recording is the first volume within the complete recording of the pieces.