Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
Performer: Ivan Ilić
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Release: 2019
Size: 1.06 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Symphony No. 92 in G major ‘Oxford’
01. I. Adagio – Allegro spirito
02. II. Cantabile
03. III. Menuetto
04. IV. Finale. Presto
Symphony No. 75 in D Major
05. I. Grave – Presto
06. II. Andante con variazioni
07. III. Menuetto
08. IV. Finale. Vivace
Symphony No. 44 in E minor ‘Mourning’
09. I. Allegro con brio
10 .II. Menuetto
11. III. Adagio ma non troppo
12. IV. Finale. Presto
Ivan Ilić came across these transcriptions, scarcely known at all, through the most unlikely and serendipitous sequence of events. Carl David Stegmann (1751 1826) was a tenor, keyboard player, conductor, and composer, who worked mostly in the field of opera. Employed by the Court Theatre in Mainz (where he sang in the first German-language production of Don Giovanni), he also gave a number of acclaimed performances in Frankfurt. Trained as an organist, he made transcriptions of string quintets by Mozart and Beethovens Trios, Op. 9 as well as keyboard transcriptions of twenty-five of Haydns symphonies. Ivan Ilić writes: It is unclear to me whether these transcriptions were ever meant to be played as concert repertoire, in public. Nevertheless, the enthusiasm I have encountered wherever I have played them has persuaded me to make this recording, to allow more people to hear Stegmann’s idiomatic arrangements.