Alon Sariel - Vienna Mandolin Stories (2025) [Official Digital Download]

Vienna Mandolin Stories is Alon Sariel’s first full concerto album, inviting listeners on a journey through late-18th and early-19th-century Vienna. The album features works for mandolin and orchestra by Haydn, Mozart, Krähmer, and Paisiello. While some pieces were originally composed for mandolin, others have been skillfully adapted by Sariel. The album thrives on Sariel’s inventive and playful approach, as represented in “Haydn’s Mandolin Concerto”, an imaginative rearrangement combining movements from different concertos, including one by Malzat long misattributed to Haydn. Highlights also include the “bluegrass” cadence in the slow movement of the “Haydn” concerto and the clever nod to Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier in Sariel’s arrangement of Mozart’s Andante for Flute and Orchestra. Sariel brings to light Ernest Krähmer’s works for mandolin and orchestra, recently found at the Bavarian State Library and recorded here for the first time. The period musicians of the Kölner Akademie, under the direction of Michael Alexander Willens, deliver an ideal soundscape for these vibrant and colorful works.

TRACKLIST

1. Alon Sariel, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Mozart: Andante for Flute and Orchestra, K. 315 (Arr. A. Sariel for Mandolin and Orchestra)
2. Alon Sariel, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Krähmer: Larghetto and Rondo for Mandolin and Orchestra: I. Larghetto. Adagio
3. Alon Sariel, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Krähmer: Larghetto and Rondo for Mandolin and Orchestra: I. Rondo. Allegro moderato
4. Alon Sariel, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Haydn: "Haydn's Mandolin Concerto" in C Major: I. Moderato (After J. Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1)
5. Alon Sariel, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Haydn: "Haydn's Mandolin Concerto" in C Major: II. Adagio (After J. Haydn: Violin Concerto in C Major, Hob. VIIa:1)
6. Alon Sariel, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Malzat: "Haydn's Mandolin Concerto" in C Major: III. Rondo Allegretto
7. Alon Sariel, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Krähmer: Andantino for Mandolin and Orchestra
8. Alon Sariel, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Krähmer: Theme and Variations for Mandolin and Orchestra: Theme. Allegretto
9. Alon Sariel, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Krähmer: Theme and Variations for Mandolin and Orchestra: Var. I
10. Alon Sariel, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Krähmer: Theme and Variations for Mandolin and Orchestra: Var. II
11. Alon Sariel, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Krähmer: Theme and Variations for Mandolin and Orchestra: Var. III
12. Alon Sariel, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Krähmer: Theme and Variations for Mandolin and Orchestra: Var. IV
13. Alon Sariel, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Krähmer: Theme and Variations for Mandolin and Orchestra: Var. V
14. Alon Sariel, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Paisiello: Mandolin Concerto in C Major: I. Tempo giusto
15. Alon Sariel, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Paisiello: Mandolin Concerto in C Major: II. Larghetto alla Siciliana
16. Alon Sariel, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Paisiello: Mandolin Concerto in C Major: III. Allegro



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