Mozart - Duo for Violin and Viola in G, K. 423 /String Duo No. 2 in B-flat major for violin and viola, K. 424

 

Mozart

 

 

Duo for Violin and Viola in G, K. 423

 

                    

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's String Duo No. 1 in G major for violin and viola, K. 423, the first of the two Mozart wrote to complete Michael Haydn's set of six for the Archbishop Colloredo, was written in the summer of 1783. It is in three movements:
1. Allegro, common time
2. Adagio, C major, 3/4
3. Rondeau: Allegro, cut time

While both Mozart's and Haydn's duos give the viola lots of double stops, Mozart's duos differ in that the viola also gets many passages in sixteenths, almost in equal proportion to the violin. H. C. Robbins Landon notes in particular of K. 423 that Mozart had retained the knowledge he gained in writing the String Quartet in G major, K. 387 (the finale of which was in turn influenced by Haydn's Symphony No. 23). The set of six was presented as all Haydn's, and Colloredo was unable to "detect in them Mozart's obvious workmanship." By transposing the viola part an octave down and changing to bass clef, the piece is readily playable on cello. Werner Rainer edited such a transcription for Verlag Doblinger.

The G major Duo is almost always paired with the B-flat major Duo, K. 424. The Hungaroton label has a 2-CD set of the Mozart and Haydn duos with Barnabas Kelemen and Katalin Kokas. The Avie label prefers to put Mozart's duos (played by Phillipe Graffin and Nobuko Imai) on a 2-CD set with other pieces by Mozart, such as the Violin Concerto in G, K. 216, and the Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major, K. 364. The Odeum Guitar Duo has recorded a transcription of K. 423 for two guitars, available as an MP3 download for Pepsi points.

 

 Arsen Murazyan, violin
Nikray Kowsar, viola
A. Spendiarian National Opera & Ballet TheatreYerevan - January 2015

모짜르트가 가장 좋아하였던 악기는 비올라로 그는 친구들과 현악기들을 함께 연주할 때면 되도록이면 비올라를 연주하고 싶어했다. 친구들과의 현악 연주 모임중 유명한 '작곡가' 쿼르텟으로 ,이 모임은 비올라를 연주한 모짜르트 외에 반할(첼로), 티테르도르프(제2 바이올린),요제프 하이든 (제1바이올린)으로 구성되었다.

 

이 작품 2중주 K. 423 G 장조는 K. 424 B flat과 함께 22세가 되던해 여름 짤스부르크로 돌아오는길에 작곡했다.이 곡들은 이 편성의 곡들에서 자칫 빠지기 쉬운 (두악기 사이의) '선생과 제자'의 관계를 극복하였을 뿐 아니라 열두달전에 작곡한 그의 다른 작품들과 비교하더라도 각별한 음악적 진전을 이루었다.더욱 놀라운 것은 모짜르트가 이처럼 음악적 완성도를 갖춘 이 곡을 단순히 미카엘 하이든( 작곡가 요제프 하이든의 동생)을 도와주기 위해 작곡하였다는 사실이다.미카엘 하이든은 당시 두대의 바이올린을 위한 이중주 6곡을
작곡해달라는 위촉을 받았었는데, 2곡을 남겨놓고 심한 병을 앓게 되었다.사정을 딱하게 여긴 모짜르트는 나머지 2곡을 작곡해주면서 이것을 미카엘 하이든의 곡으로 써도 좋다고 허락하였다.다행히도 이 곡들을

 위촉한 대주교는 이것들이 모짜르트의 작품인지를 알아채지 못했다. 모짜르트의 두 곡과 미카엘 하이든의 곡들은 작품의 수준에 있어서 커다란 차이를 이룬다는 사실을 고려할 때, 아마도 당시 대주교는 이 곡들을 커다란 신경을 써서 듣지 않았든지 아니면 음악적 센스가 모자랐던 것으로 짐작된다.

 

Duo  for Violin & Viola in B flat major, KV 424   

 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's String Duo No. 2 in B-flat major for violin and viola, K. 424, the second of the two Mozart wrote to complete Michael Haydn's set of six for the Archbishop Colloredo,

was written in the summer of 1783.

 

It is in three movements:

1. Adagio, common time
2. Andante cantabile, E-flat major, 6/8
3. Andante grazioso, cut time

The last movement is a theme with six variations and a coda. As a whole, this duo blends in better with Haydn's four because the viola is more limited to providing harmony than in K. 423. The set of six was presented as all Haydn's, and Colloredo was unable to "detect in them Mozart's obvious workmanship."

 

Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman

Mozart- Duos For Violin & Viola

Leclair ‎–Sonata For 2 Violins

Tracklist

Duo No. 1, K.423, In G-Dur 16:42

1 –Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Allegro 6:48
2 –Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Adagio 4:06
3 –Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Rondeau: Allegro 5:38

Duo No. 2, K.424, In B-Flat 21:03

4 –Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Adagio: Allegro 8:19
5 –Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Andante Cantabile 3:44
6 –Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Thema Con Variazioni: Andante Grazioso 8:51

Sonata, Op. 3, No. 4, In F-Dur 9:56

7 –Jean-Marie Leclair Allegro Assai 2:55
8 –Jean-Marie Leclair Aria: Andante Grazioso 4:06
9 –Jean-Marie Leclair Gigue: Allegro Moderato 2:49

Composed By – Jean-Marie Leclair (tracks: 7 to 9), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (tracks: 1 to 6)
Viola – Pinchas Zukerman (tracks: 1 to 6)
Violin – Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman (tracks: 7 to 9)