REASONS FOR TERRITORIAL PRIDE

Annely Zeni

 

“Just after lunch we passed on to the music that Mozart wrote for the Countess Ernst Lodron”, the Court Councillor von Schiedenhofen wrote on June 18th 1776 for future memory on the occasion that had determined the composition of the Divertimento K 247, meant for the celebration of the name-day of the Countess Antonia Lodron, a distinguished neighbour of the Mozart family in Salzburg. The work is the leit motiv of the Mozartian Celebrations in the Valli Giudicarie, where the nobles Lodron would leave in the ancient Middle Ages for illustrious careers. An occasion celebrating the bicentenary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus.
Here is, therefore, a reason for territorial pride, to listen to an elegant Mozartian page, a masterpiece of fine chamber music such as, among others, the Divertimento K 334, also written for string quartet and two horns, perhaps in 1780. The other is the beauty of this Sony Classical recording, entrusted to an ensemble whose name tells of all the philological accuracy of the reading: “archi con corde di budello” and above all
with names such as the cellist Anner Bylsma or the violinist Lucy Van Dael, authentical referees for the authentic performance on in-period instruments.