- German composer Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012) had a great admiration for the masters of the Baroque and the Classical Era, which prompted him to transcribing, reworking, and transfiguring 17th and 18th century masterpieces into new orchestral weaves, illuminating the past with a modern light. Examples of this are his transcriptions of the opera Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria by Monteverdi, and the Oratorio Jephte by Carissimi.
- This new recording project Travestimenti (Disguises) conducted by Marco Angius with the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto presents Henze's 'reinventions' of masterpieces by Mozart, C.P.E. Bach and Vitali.
- In the Mozart’sche Orgelsonaten Henze made significant changes to the instrumentation, assigning harp and guitar to large parts of the original solo part. The preference for low instruments gives the work a withdrawn, introverted, almost nocturnal nature.
- Henze about his C.P.E. Bach transcription: “Maintaining exactly the note values of the original, I decided to transcribe the Clavier-Fantasie mit Begleitung einer Violine by C.P.E. Bach for solo flute, harp and strings. My aim was to project the extremely interesting and expressive harmonic material of this composition into a larger instrumental apparatus and thus to make its future-oriented harmonic structures more manifest and molded.”
- Another interesting and original recording project by Marco Angius and the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto. Their previous Wagner/Sciarrino (BC 96119) recording met with great critical acclaim in the international press.
