Release Date: 01 November 1996
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571168876
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
Mozart wrote much music for wind ensembles in various combinations. It is acknowledged that the three most substantial and important works, indeed masterpieces, are the three Serenades: K361 in B flat ('for thirteen wind instruments', known as the 'Gran Partita'), K375 and K388. The two latter are scored for wind octet, the first with much of the spirit of 'The Marriage of Figaro' (written at the same time) and the second in more darkly passionate C minor mood.
There have been many recordings of the Serenades over the years but this is the first to use new scores prepared directly from Mozart's manuscripts, and therefore to be free from the innumerable changes made in all earlier editions. In other words, this is our first opportunity to hear the works as Mozart wrote them. The scores are newly published by Camden Music.
The disc also includes Mozart's three most famous overtures, scored for wind to satisfy the fashion of the time.
Tracklisting
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica
Laurence Perkins
Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin
English National Opera Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Steven Osborne
Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Steven Isserlis, Philharmonia Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi
Doris Hochscheid, Frans van Ruth
Quatuor Molinari
Ariane Brisson; Philip Chiu
Renato Criscuolo|Aldo Criscuolo
Ragna Schirmer, Hofkapelle Munchen, Rudiger Lotter
Piercarlo Sacco|Andrea Dieci
Peter Hanson (violin); Andrew Arthur (fortepiano)
Nina Kotova; Fabio Bidini
