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Sound Worlds of Classical ViennaThree exceptional works lead directly into the musical world of Vienna around 1800. At the heart of the programme is Mozart's Quintet in E-flat major K. 452 for piano and winds - a fascinating fusion of chamber music, piano concerto and Harmoniemusik, which Mozart himself described after it's premiere as the finest work he had composed up to that point.With the keyboard concerto by Marianna Martines, the recording also brings renewed attention to one of the most remarkable musicians of eighteenth-century Vienna. Her virtuosic and unusually richly scored music reflects the flourishing Viennese salon culture from which Mozart's own piano concertos also emerged.A particular discovery is Franz Danzi's Quintet in D minor, Op. 41. Rarely heard today, the work takes up Mozart's unusual instrumental combination and develops it further with passionate drama, brilliant piano writing and an exquisitely balanced dialogue between the wind instruments.Die Freitagsakademie brings this repertoire vividly to life on historic original instruments from the Collection of Historic Musical Instruments at Vienna's Museum of Art - including a 1813 fortepiano by Nannette Streicher and instruments by the so-called Viennese Stradivari, Franz Geissenhof.