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Aitch
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« on: 16:22:17, 11-12-2007 »
I bought a CD this morning (Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A and 'kegelstatt' trio on E flat).

Being on a French label (Naive) the instruments used by the assorted players are given in French and English.

Except for the Hammerflugel (should be an umlaut in there somewhere Smiley ).

From what I can find out (google and Wiki not terribly helpful) it's a Grand Pianoforte. So why not say so in the notes? Or is it different from an 'ordinary' grand piano? Any hammerflugelmeisters out there able to clear this up?
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« Reply #1 on: 18:02:55, 11-12-2007 »
I think what the sleeve-note is telling you is that the piano part is being played on a instrument (or replica of one) from the period the music was written... and not on the modern grand piano.
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« Reply #2 on: 19:07:37, 11-12-2007 »
More interesting is the Flammerhügel, a hillock on which you stand in order to hear the music of Ernst Helmuth Flammer.
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« Reply #3 on: 20:34:12, 11-12-2007 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 18:02:55, 11-12-2007
I think what the sleeve-note is telling you is that the piano part is being played on a instrument (or replica of one) from the period the music was written... and not on the modern grand piano.

Aaah! It does say that the pieces are played 'on period instruments' - or 'sur instruments d'epoque', if you prefer.

Thanks, chaps.
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« Reply #4 on: 22:05:05, 11-12-2007 »
Specifically a Hammerflügel by Anton Walter, Vienna 1790, at least if it's the same recording I have and it's Patrick Cohen playing.

I wonder why they would use that term in the booklet though? The French word is more usually pianoforte and the English fortepiano. And none of the other instrument names are given in German...
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« Reply #5 on: 09:36:55, 12-12-2007 »
Quote from: oliver sudden on 22:05:05, 11-12-2007
Specifically a Hammerflügel by Anton Walter, Vienna 1790, at least if it's the same recording I have and it's Patrick Cohen playing.

I wonder why they would use that term in the booklet though? The French word is more usually pianoforte and the English fortepiano. And none of the other instrument names are given in German...

That looks like the one, Oliver - with Wolfgang Meyer on Basset Clarinet and the Quatuor Mosaïques?
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« Reply #6 on: 16:37:46, 30-12-2007 »
Quote from: Aitch on 16:22:17, 11-12-2007
I bought a CD this morning (Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A and 'kegelstatt' trio on E flat).

Being on a French label (Naive) the instruments used by the assorted players are given in French and English.

Except for the Hammerflugel (should be an umlaut in there somewhere Smiley ).

From what I can find out (google and Wiki not terribly helpful) it's a Grand Pianoforte. So why not say so in the notes? Or is it different from an 'ordinary' grand piano? Any hammerflugelmeisters out there able to clear this up?

I have a fairly comprehensive demonstration of (downloadable) Beethoven sonatas and other chamber music performed with a variety of Viennese school fortepianos or copies thereof at my site. Have a look if your interested, but you'll have to join up to access the topic and downloads. These days I don't even begin to consider Beethoven performed on modern pianos. Give me a Graf, a Walter or a Streicher!
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