Music For Glass Harmonica - Bruno Hoffman

 

Music For Glass Harmonica

Music For Glass Harmonica

Bruno Hoffman - Glass Harmonica

K.H. Ulrich - Flute

Helmut Albers - Oboe

Herbert Anrath, Walters Albers - Violins

Ernst Nippes - Viola

Hans Plumacher - Cello

Gert Nose - Bass

Mastering: Rudolph Van Gelder

VOX STDL 501.110

From the inside cover (gatefold): Burno Hoffmann, who has done more than any man living to revive the fascinating eightieth-century art of "glass music," was born at Stuttgart, Germany, 15 September 1913. The son of a church-music director, he attended the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnsium and was trined in piano and organ playing. But from the early age of sixteen, when he first encountered musical glasses, his life has been devoted to mastering their executant technique, resurrecting the masterpieces originally written in this medium, and fostering the composition of new works by contemporary composers. He is the authority chosen to write the article on the Glasharmonka in German encyclopedia  Musik In Geschichte And Gegenwart. The glass harp on which he performs is of his own design and construction, and with it he has appeared in recitals and as soloist in chamber and orchestral concepts all over the continent and the British Isles, in innumerable radio and television broadcasts, in several films – including a Benjamin Franklin documentary.

Mozart

   Adagio and Rondo in C Minor, K.617

   Adagio in C, K.617a

J.F. Reichardt

   Rondeau for Glass Harmonica

   String Quartet and Double Bass in B-flat Major

Karl Leopold Rollig

   Quintet for Glass Harmonica and Strings Quartet in C Minor

Johana Abraham Peter Schulz

   Largo in C Minor

Johann Gottlieb Naumann

   Quartet for Glass Harmonia, Flute, Viola and Cello in C Major