Harmonie & Turcherie
Donizetti - Haydn - Mendelssohn - Mozart - u.a.
Ensemble Zefiro - Alfredo Bernardini (Dir)
Label : ARCANA
Artikelnummer: A391
1 CD Spielzeit : 078:49
CHF 22.50
Around 1800, Western music experienced a merging of two phenomena: the success of particular ensembles of wind instruments ('Harmonien') with arrangements of famous opera arias in their core repertoire, and the fashion for orientalism, reflected in different expressions of the arts. The typical octet of the Harmonie was reinforced by louder instruments such as trumpets, trombones, a contrabassoon or a cimbasso, as well as percussion, to evoke the military bands of the highly feared Janissaries.