We all have our favorite artists and composers no matter if it’s pop, rock, blues or classical music genre. But as to me, classical music preferences are somewhat more refined and special, when the choice of a certain favorite becomes particularly well-thought and weighted. The music style of each composer differs a lot and we may just like a separate part of it, not the entire creativity line. And what if you had to pick two your most loved composers and combine their styles in one piece?
Here’s one quite interesting selection in this sense. The two virtuosos have been chosen to get along together in two fun arrangements by David Burndrett – “2 Classical Favourites”. The ‘volume one’ features pieces by Antonio Vivaldi and Edvard Grieg. The first one is the “Autumn” part of the noted Four Seasons concert series of program music, where the wind quartet is aiming to reproduce the colorful charm of Vivaldi’s autumn allegro. The second one is where the wind quartet – flute, clarinet, bassoon and oboe – are rendering the orchestral piece “In the Hall of Mountain King” from the Peer Gynt play, the very moment when Peer Gynt enters the royal roaring hall full of magic creatures like gnomes, trolls and goblins:
