In The Studio: Ossian Huskinson
The Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series continues with an award-winning bass-baritone
In one of the most memorable scenes from the film Amadeus, Mozart's rival composer Salieri recalls the moment he encountered the manuscript of the Gran Partita Serenade: ‘On the page it looked nothing...Just a pulse - bassoons and basset-horns - like a rusty squeezebox. Then suddenly - high above it - an oboe, a single note, hanging there unwavering, till a clarinet took over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight. This was no composition by a performing monkey... it seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God.'
In a new article on the Gramophone website, conductor Trevor Pinnock explores the score of Gran Partita with Philip Clark. Visit the Gramophone website to read the article.