Aha! I found this on the Barenreiter website itself:
In Mozart's day the Italian operatic symphony normally consisted of three rather short orchestral pieces in the order fast - slow - fast. For Ascanio in Alba, however, he characteristically varied the conventional formula. That this was something unusual is made clear by the fact that Leopold Mozart took pains to give an exact account of this overtura to his wife: "So far Wolfgang has only written the overture, that is, a rather long Allegro, followed by an Andante, which has to be danced, but only by a few people. Instead of the final Allegro he has composed a kind of contredanse and chorus to be sung and danced at the same time."
I have no idea why Mr. Hogwood doesn't recall this being in the vinyl edition of the Symphonies. Neal Zaslaw talked about this in the liner note; and it was included in the recordings.
Mystery solved ;)
On 3/13/06, Johannes Gebauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 13.03.2006 Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
> This Choral Symphony was not the Odense, that was released on an appendix vinyl album I believe; and wasn't included in the CD set. I can't recall which K number this choral symphony was, but it was a very early one, K 110-119 with an alphabet subscript number I think.
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> This was a very short Symphony--and the Choral part was maybe 3 mins? But I remember the liner notes saying "surprize! Beethoven didn't write the first choral symphony." Or words to that effect. I have written to Neal Zaslaw about this--he was the advisor to the project and maybe he can shed some light on this for me. I'll let everyone know the results.
Are you sure this was on the Hogwood recording? I am surprised that
Chris Hogwood himself cannot remember this at all.
Johannes
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