Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintettes dédiés a Haydn / Quintets dedicated to Haydn [3CD]

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Mozart’s six quartets dedicated to Haydn are featured in new arrangements by Geoffrey Emerson for the Canadian wind ensemble Pentaedre. Presented as a deluxe boxed set of three discs, this special release completes a project that began 40 years ago.
“The dearth of real wind quintets by Mozart — owing to the fact that this grouping of instruments did not really become popular until after his death — prompted us to complete the work begun by the tireless Geoffrey Emerson in arranging the series of six quartets for wind quintet,” writes bassoonist Mathieu Lussier.
A unique ensemble on the Canadian musical landscape, Pentaedre explores a diversified and original chamber music repertoire, developed in the tradition of music for winds. Founded in 1985, the five musicians forming the quintet are recognized for the talent, technique, precision and color they bring to their performances.

The past ten years have seen Pentaedre inviting renowned guests artists such as tenors Christoph Prégardien and Rufus Muller, baritones Russell Braun and Phillip Addis, soprano Karina Gauvin, and pianists Naida Cole, David Jalbert and Iwan Llewelyn-Jones, while pursuing collaborations with chamber ensembles like Penderecki String Quartet, Molinari Quartet, the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet and I Musici de Montréal. Pentaedre has toured extensively across Canada, and also in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.

One of their most recent CDs, a chamber version by Normand Forget of Schubert’s Winterreise, was awarded the CD of the Year 2008 Opus Prize – Classical, Romantic, Postromantic, Impressionist Music by the Conseil Québécois de la Musique, and got the exceptional Stern des Monats/Star of the Month from German magazine Fono Forum. These come on top of excellent reviews of Pentaedre’s innovative shows L’amour est un opéra muet and A Chair in Love, and an Opus Prize for Best Concert of the Year, Present, Contemporary, Electro-Acoustic Music in 2002.

Among recent performances were concerts in Belgium, Germany ad Israël of a chamber version of Schubert’s Winterreise (by Normand Forget) with famous tenor Christoph Prégardien , the stage version premiere of John Metcalf’s opera A Chair in Love at Cardiff and Swansea Opera Houses (10 concerts in Wales and Ireland), L’amour est un opéra muet (from Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte) with the mime company Omnibus, Numerous shows for young audiences. The ensemble has recorded 5 CDs and performed more that 25 premieres including commissions to canadian composers such as Ana Sokolovic, André Ristic, Michael Oesterle and Denis Dion. Their season concerts are regularly broadcast on Radio-Canada and CBC.