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AJ 0578
Mozart y Mambo
Label Catalogue Number:
ALPHA578
ALPHA578
Running Time: 54:43
Release Date: July 2020
Originally recorded in 2019
Originally recorded in 2019
Genre:
Classical
Classical
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About
Sarah Willis is a tireless ambassador for her instrument, the French horn, which she champions around the world. A horn player with the famous Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra since 2001, she launched what was soon to become a famous TV programme, ‘Sarah’s Music’, for Deutsche Welle in 2014, interviewing personalities ranging from Gustavo Dudamel to Wynton Marsalis. The award-winning programme presents music with warmth and in all its diversity.
Sarah’s other passion was born when she arrived in Cuba to give a horn masterclass. The music and the musicians she met there had a huge impact on her. Since then she has returned regularly and founded the Havana Horns, an ensemble of Cuban horn players who were featured in a ‘Sarah’s Music’ episode.
With ‘Mozart y Mambo', Sarah has created an album combining the music of one of the most famous classical music composers, W. A. Mozart and traditional Cuban music. "Mozart would have been a good Cuban" she was told in Havana, and this is what inspired her to create this project.
With the Havana Lyceum Orchestra and its exuberant conductor José Antonio Méndez Padrón, she presents works for French horn and orchestra by W. A. Mozart (the Concerto No. 3 K. 447 and the Concert Rondo K. 371) alongside a 'Rondo alla Mambo' (inspired by the Concerto No. 3 K. 447) a ‘Sarahnade Mambo’, a Cuban ‘Eine Kleine Nachtmusik’, and other treats. A number of well-known local musicians take part in this recording, which also pays tribute to Cuban repertoire with two songs including ‘Dos Gardenias’, made famous by Ibrahim Ferrer and the Buena Vista Social Club.
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Reviews
Excellent Album ****
Augustin Javel – Classica magazine (France) – December 2020/ January 2021
"Berlin Phil horn player Sarah Willis's slice of joy unites Mozart and Cuban music. The separate styles sit nicely together ..." ****
Oliver Condy - BBC Music magazine (Brief Notes section) - October 2020
"... An overall enjoyable listen ..."
Leighton Jones - theclassicreview.com - 24 July 2020
“… Hearing Willis as a pure-toned, lyrical soloist in Mozart – listen for the wild cadenzas – is a novelty in itself, but the way this Berlin Philharmonic star player yokes her own classical tradition to the improvisatory skills of the Cuban musicians is exploratory and honest…“
Fiona Maddocks – The Guardian – 25 July 2020
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