Music for Glass Harmonica

Bruno Hoffmann - Music for Glass Harmonica

Performers:

Bruno Hoffmann - glass harmonica

K.H. Ulrich - flute

Helmut Hucke - oboe

Herbert Anrath & Walter Albers - violins

Ernst Nippes - viola

Hans Plumacher - cello

Gert Nose - bass

From the liner notes:

Bruno Hoffmann, who has done more than any man living to revive the fascinating eighteenth-century art of "glass music," was born at Stuttgart, Germant, 15 September 1913. The son of a church-music director, he attended the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium and was trained in piano and organ playing. But from the early age of sixteen, when he first encountered musical glasses, his life has been devoted to mastering their executant technique, resurrecting the masterpieces originally written in this medium, and fostering the composition of new works by contemporary composers. He is the authority chosen to write the article on the Glasharmonika in the German encyclopedia Musik in Geschichte and Gegenwart. The glass harp on which he performs is of his own design and construction, and with it he has appeared in recitals and as soloist in chamber and orchestral concerts all over the continent and the British Isles, in innumerable radio and television broadcasts, in several films - including a Benjamin Franklin documentary.

Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. Adagio and Rondo in C Minor, K. 617 {15:12}

composed by Wolfgang Mozart

2. Adagio for Glass Harmonica Solo, K. 617a {3:48}

composed by Wolfgang Mozart

3. Rondeau for Glass Harmonica, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello and Bass in B-flat-major {8:29}

composed by Johann Friedrich Reichardt

Side 2

1. Glass Harmonica and String Quartet in C Minor {10:01}

composed by Karl Leopold Rollig

2. Largo in C Minor for Glass Harmonica Solo {4:20}

composed by Johann Abraham Peter Schulz

3. Quartet for Glass Harmonica, Flute, Viola and Cello in C Major {11:31}

composed by Johann Gottlieb Naumann

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