557361bk USA 26/8/04 7:30 pm Page 4 Max Artved The oboist Max Artved was born in 1965 and joined the Tivoli Boys’ Guard at the age of twelve. In 1980 he entered the Royal Danish Academy of Music, studying with Jørgen Hammergaard, and subsequently with Maurice Bourgue in Paris and Gordon Hunt in London. He made his solo MUSIC FOR début in 1990 and joined the Royal Danish Orchestra in 1991, later the same year becoming principal oboe with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Awards include the Jacob Gade Scholarship, the Gladsaxe Music Prize and the Music Critics’ Artist Prize. His career has brought solo OBOE AND STRINGS engagements in Scandinavia and throughout Europe, and he has contributed to recordings released by dacapo and by Naxos Mozart • Crusell • J.C. Bach Elise Båtnes The violinist Elise Båtnes was appointed leader of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2002. She has appeared as a soloist, particularly throughout Scandinavia, and was leader of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. She has been a Max Artved, Oboe • Elise Båtnes, Violin member of the Vertavo Quartet, and has served as artistic director of the Bergen Chamber Ensemble. Tue Lautrup, Violin/Viola • Dimitri Golovanov, Viola Dimitri Golovanov Dimitri Golovanov is a native of St Petersburg, where he studied at the Conservatory, before emigrating from the Soviet Union. He has served as principal violist in the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1994. Lars Holm Johansen, Cello Lars Holm Johansen Lars Holm Johansen was principal cellist in the Royal Danish Orchestra until August 2002, and is well known for his collaboration in chamber music and as a co-founder of the Copenhagen Trio. Tue Lautrup The violinist and violist Tue Lautrup made his professional début in 1997 after studying in Paris at the Conservatoire National Supérieur. In 2000 he was a prizewinner in Danish Radio’s P2 competition for chamber music. At present he is a member of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra. 8.557361 4 557361bk USA 26/8/04 7:30 pm Page 2 Mozart • Crusell • J.C. Bach central development brings surprises, breaking off on a children of Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Christian Chamber Music for Oboe and Strings second occasion before the return of the first subject in a Bach was born in Leipzig in 1735 and presumably had final recapitulation. The E flat major triple metre his early musical training under his father, whom he In 1777 Mozart set out from Salzburg, accompanied He was soon to be summoned to Vienna by his patron, Andante brings customary embellishment in the upper assisted as the latter neared the end of his life. On his only by his mother, to seek his fortune elsewhere. His the Archbishop of Salzburg, and all too soon to quarrel part and leads to a Menuetto in canone, in which there is father’s death in 1750 he joined his brother Carl Philipp father Leopold, who had guided his son’s career, was with his and his father’s patron, to spend his last ten a canon at first between oboe and cello, and a C major Emanuel in Potsdam, and in 1754 moved to Italy, compelled to remain at home, out of necessary years in precarious independence in Vienna. The trio in which the canon, now between the upper studying with Padre Martini, becoming a Catholic, and prudence, while Mozart himself had been able to travel quartet opens with an Allegro, the oboe stating the first instruments, is inverted. The last movement is a set of establishing himself in Milan, where, in 1760, he only by resigning from the court musical establishment subject and leading the way to a secondary theme, variations that in one passage, at least, shows traces of became second organist at the Cathedral. His growing of the ruling Archbishop. Mozart’s journey took him, by introduced by the violin. Instruments enter in imitation its origin. The theme returns finally in C major to bring reputation as a composer of Italian opera led to an the end of October, to Mannheim, the seat of the Elector of each other in the central development, duly followed the work to a conclusion. invitation in 1762 to London, where, like Handel before Palatine and a city that boasted the most famous by a final recapitulation. The strings open the D minor The clarinettist and composer Bernhard Henrik him, he enjoyed royal patronage and a career as a orchestra in Europe. He was clearly delighted at his Adagio, in which the oboe adds an embellished upper Crusell was born in the Finnish town of Uusikaupunki composer of Italian opera and as a versatile contributor reception by musicians of the Mannheim court. In his part. The final Rondeau allows the oboe the first (Nystad) in 1775, the son of a book-binder. He had his to the musical life of the city. In later years he second letter home to his father he gives an account of statement of the principal theme, echoed by the violin, first instruction in the clarinet at the age of eight from an experienced financial difficulties, as fashions changed. his visit to the house of the director of court instrumental providing the framework for contrasting episodes that army player and was encouraged by an officer to join the He died in London in 1782, mourned by Mozart in music, Christian Cannabich. There he met other would have allowed Ramm full scope for the display of band of the Queen Dowager’s Regiment, which, in 1791, Vienna, who would have remembered his kindness at musicians, including an oboist whose playing he praises his ability, so much admired by the composer. in Stockholm, he conducted, before appointment to the their first meeting in London in 1764. Much of Johann and to whom he has given a copy of his oboe concerto, Mozart embarked on independent life in Vienna court musical establishment in 1793 as first clarinettist. Christian’s chamber music is varied in scoring, often although he has forgotten the man’s name. In later with a degree of optimism, marrying, without his Study with the Abbé Georg Joseph Vogler, the Court combining wind and string instruments. His Oboe Quartet letters he identifies him as Friedrich Ramm. The four father’s approval, the younger sister of the singer who Kapellmeister, and of the clarinet with Franz Tausch in in B flat major was issued in August 1776 by Sieber in months in Mannheim brought no offer of employment had so enchanted him in Mannheim, and contributing to Berlin, brought a career as a soloist, with a visit to Paris Paris, as the first of a set of concertante string quartets from the Elector, and Mozart planned to move on to the German operatic repertoire encouraged by the in 1803 that allowed composition lessons with Berton by J.C. Bach and his friend and colleague in London, the Paris, at first hoping to travel with Ramm and other Emperor a new Turkish Singspiel, Die Entführung aus and Gossec, and further concert tours abroad. In gamba-player C.F. Abel. This replaced a quartet by wind players from Mannheim, for whom he was to write dem Serail. His Serenade in C minor, K388, for oboes, Stockholm in 1818 he was appointed musical director of Giardini, orchestral leader at the King’s Theatre, in an a sinfonia concertante. He eventually travelled to Paris clarinets, horns and bassoons, was probably written in the two Royal Grenadier Regiments, a position he held otherwise similar set of six quartets published in with his mother in March, but, for whatever reason, 1782 and it was to this work that he turned in 1787 or until his death in 1838. His varied compositions include London. It appears in a manuscript in Genoa in a version failed to find the patronage he needed. In July his 1788 to provide the basis of the third of his set of three works for his own instrument, an opera, and chamber for oboe and strings and in another version there, in E flat mother fell ill and died, and his father, anxious as ever string quintets, offered for subscription in April of the music, and he was also responsible for Swedish major, for cor anglais and strings, while the Brussels about his son, urged him to return to Salzburg, where he latter year. By now Mozart’s circumstances had translations of various opera libretti. His Divertimento in Bibliothèque Albert 1er attributes the work to Haydn, as had procured for him the position of court organist. changed. His father had died in 1787 and his own C major, Op. 9, was written in 1822, scored for oboe and some others have done. The pleasing first movement in After long delays, the result of a return to Mannheim, financial difficulties were mounting in the political and string quartet. The opening Allegro, with due sonata-allegro form is followed by a Rondeau that where he renewed his attentions to the young singer economic problems of the time. He refers to the modulation to the dominant, frames a central C minor follows Bach’s normal practice in offering a second Aloysia Weber, and time spent in Munich with his quintets, later to be published by Artaria, in a letter to Andante poco Adagio, returning to be completed by a episode in the relative minor key, the whole movement cousin, Mozart was back in his detested Salzburg by his fellow-mason Michael Puchberg seeking loans to rapid final section. The work is adept in its handling of suggesting, in its metre, a minuet with two trios.