Est 1923

Mozart Chamber Works for Wind

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Label: Valois

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 50

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: V4684

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
Serenade No. 11 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
MoraguÈS Qnt
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Serenade No. 12 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
MoraguÈS Qnt
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Adagio Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
MoraguÈS Qnt
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
This record seems to me slightly unnecessary. There are plenty of excellent recordings to be had of the two great octet serenades, and of the Adagio, using the instruments for which they were composed. The wind quintet hadn't been invented, as a medium, in Mozart's time, when wind instruments normally hunted in pairs—and the music written for them was conceived that way. The playing on this record is technically first-class, but the effect is poor for two reasons. First, it misrepresents the music, removing its patterns and its symmetries and its carefully calculated instrumental balance; and second, the playing is curiously bland in manner, so that the very expressive slow movements here lose their force and their point. The Adagio really depends for its effectiveness on the homogeneity of the instrumental sound (it was composed for three clarinets and two basset horns) and in this guise it makes little effect. The disc will interest only those with a special enthusiasm for the wind quintet as a medium.'

Mozart Chamber Works for Wind

Serenade No. 11

Serenade No. 12

Adagio

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