Moritz Eggert - Amadé, Amadé (2010)

Wolfgang A. Mozart Quintett Es-Dur KV 452
1. Largo – Allegro moderato 09:48
2. Larghetto 07:48
3. Rondo: Allegretto 05:33
Moritz Eggert Amadé, Amadé
4. Amadé, Amadé 25:07

Quintetto Amadeo:
Moritz Eggert, piano
Paul van Zelm, horn
Manuel Bilz, oboe
Thorsten Johanns, clarinet
Ole Kristian dahl, bassoon

The Amadeo Quintett, an ensemble set up specifically for this release, performs Wolfgang A. Mozart’s quintet in E flat major with amazing lightness and a generous helping of humor. Building on their performance Moritz Eggert, the composer and pianist from Munich, opens a side entrance to Mozart’s genius:
"It is all subordinated to a playful attitude demonstrated so masterly by Mozart himself – a game creating its own rules. Issues of style or polystylism are of least importance to me in this game; music is more than its surface. Only when we encounter the unexpected music becomes truly exciting, as it escapes from previously generated expectations. And the moment we realize that in the end everything turns out to be completely different from the beginning, that we have traveled through something, is perhaps the loveliest of all." (Moritz Eggert)

Resource Mozart
Over the past few years Moritz Eggert has attracted a lot of attention both with his works for music theater (e.g. the operas »Freax«, realized in collaboration with Christoph Schlingensief, and »Die Schnecke«, based on a libretto by Hans Neuenfels) and with compositions for special events (e.g. »Die Tiefe des Raumes«, a soccer oratorio, or »Am Ball«, a work for the Vienna Opera Ball). Quite appropriately, Austrian author Franzobel, in his capacity as the album’s first listener, has written a text for the booklet dealing with the fear of machines and their uncontrollability, with tourism and self-perception: thus, a reflexive text about the attempted controlled exploitation of the seemingly boundless resources contained in Mozart’s oeuvre.