Pypker & Muskens • Marianna's Salon
TINKA PYPKER & ANDERS MUSKENS: DUO
Joint winners of the 2018 Early Music Young Ensemble Competition
Tinka Pypker – soprano
Anders Muskens – fortepiano
MARIANNA’S SALON
Recorded live at St Margaret’s Church, Blackheath, London, as part of The London International Festival of Early Music.
Musical gatherings among friends and colleagues were an important part of social life in late 18th-century circles. These were important places for composers, patrons and musicians to network and present music together. This programme is comprised of relatively unknown music sampled from late 18th-century salons in Vienna and Naples.
The programme depicts the cycle of human life by celebrating the life of Marianna Auenbruggen – a talented Viennese noble lady and friend of Haydn, Mozart, and Salieri, who died far too young. The programme begins with a cheeky, youthful Anacreontic cantata by relatively unknown composer Domenico Corigliano, and proceeds to a more mature sonata by Marianna herself and a funeral ode written by Salieri to commemorate her untimely death. The programme concludes with a Mozart lied as a final farewell to the world, evoking the peace of passing. We hope to evoke the profound spectrum of Passions in this cycle.
EMSR001 • Released 2018
Tracklist
- La Scusa Cantata (179?) - Domenico Corigliano (1770–1838)
- Keyboard Sonata in E flat (1780) - Marianna Auenbrugger (1759–1782)
I. Moderato
II. Largo
III. Rondo: Allegro - Deh si piacevoli, Funeral Ode - Antonio Salieri (1750–1825)
- Abendempfindung an Laura, K.523 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
