Franz Ignaz Danzi | Quintet in d-minor op. 42 - Azahar Ensemble, Rosalia Gómez Lasheras

[@alfredwiener9136]

Kammermusik für Bläser vom Feinsten und sehr engagiertes Klavierspiel! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@romulo-mello]

Excellent performance

[@Pawel_Malecki]

This is Danzi's op. 41; op. 42 is Flute Concerto in D minor. World class masterpiece. Glad to see someone brought it onto the stage where it belongs.

[@paultaylor6821]

Fabulous playing thank you.

[@AzaharEnsemble]

Thank you!😊

[@hannawagenknecht6378]

Wie freue ich mich über dieses Quintett,zu gern höre ich zu,bedanke mich😊

[@brutusalwaysminded]

This is a wonderful performance but it’s Danzi’s Opus No. 41. I went looking for No. 42 on the streaming platforms in vain until it became obvious. Still, thanks for the great post. 🙂

[@davidbrowne5222]

To much posturing, it's not a dance. The great artists from the past, would be horrified, especially a French horn player. On a horn in F, they'd be miss pitching, dew to the close harmonics in the top octave.

[@dudeforcaster8630]

Better to remain silent and thought a fool than open ones mouth and remove all doubt.

[@davidbrowne5222]

@@dudeforcaster8630 I believe you've just mist the point, all that swinging about excessively is a distraction from the piece. As regarding My comment about a French horn, that I myself have played in the past. The horn pitched in F, especially the narrow French one. Becomes a bit of a miss,from top G upwards, even for professionals. BTW, I took lessons from the very best. If you are curious, I'll tell you who they were. 😯

[@AzaharEnsemble]

Dear David, Thank you very much for your comment, we are very glad that you took the time to listen to our recording and give us your opinion. Perhaps we disagree with you in the fact that we do think that, in a way, what we do is not only music, but also dance. As we imagine you already know, many of the musical forms and motifs that make up a work in the classical style, and also later on, have a close relationship with dance and the different representations that derive from them. The musicologist W.J. Allanbrook theorised on this in her books The Secular Commedia and Rhythmic gesture in Mozart. In fact Mozart himself, along with so many other composers, used certain dances to detail the characteristics of the different characters in his operas. Chamber music was the space in which composers developed techniques identical to those shown in their operas, with the difference that in this one there were no singers and actors, but instruments that laughed, cried, suffered and... danced! The listeners, who had previously attended the theatres, understood the codes and drew parallels very easily. When we perform this repertoire, we like to keep these old masters in mind, those who were able to understand that music is not something pure, abstract and to be presented without interference, but as something living, born from our desires, passions and physical fears, and also from our desire to dance and communicate through sound and gesture.

[@parismilane51]

Honestly, I find the playing to be sensational and profound. It left an impression that causes me to desire more. As far as the moving/posturing, that doesn’t bother me in the least amount. Music is meant to be enjoyed with the ears and interpreted using the mind. The eyes, though they are important organs, are not the critics of musicality. Again, and lastly, this was indeed well-played. Thank you for sharing

[@Pawel_Malecki]

They are playing winds. If they need to move a certain way to get the air they need, so be it. I honestly don't care. It's a chamber piece so a part of it may also be exaggerated to give cues to other players (e.g., I think the oboist and the clarinettist are doing it around 8:00-9:00 as they are trading tunes). The remark about the horn coming from an actual horn player has me laughing the most: this is D minor. It's is actually originally written for a natural horn in F. Not even a transposition needed for a modern German horn. One can even stop the notes instead of using the keys and play it period-style on a modern horn.