Wiener Philharm Peter Schmidl

Haffner Serenade Wiener Philharm Peter Schmidl

Besides an acclaimed series of recordings with Ronald Brautigamof the complete piano concertos by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Beethoven, Kölner Akademie and Michael Alexander Willensare undertaking a survey of Mozart's serenades and other incidental works. Their first disc in this series included the Posthorn Serenade and demonstrated, according to the reviewer on MusicWeb- International, that the ensemble is 'amongst the best groups in the world of period performance.' Since then the team has recorded works associated with the Freemasons, and here takes on one of the most famous of the serenades, the 'Haffner', named after Sigmund

Haffner, who commissioned it for the festivities surrounding his sister's wedding in 1776.