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RATED 5-STARS 1 PERIOD INSTRUMENT CHAMBER MUSIC CD - MOZART

MOZART SCHOLAR, AUDIOPHILE & AUTHOR | SAN FRANCISCO CA & HONOLULU HI | 04/13/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART [1756 - 1791]

SERENADE IN B [GRAN PARTITA K.361]

CONDUCTED BY CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD

& THE AMADEUS WINDS CHAMBER ENSEMBLE



RATED 5-STARS BY MOZART AUDIOPHILES #1 PERIOD INSTRUMENT CHAMBER MUSIC CD OF

MOZART'S GLORIOUS SERENADE IN B [GRAN PARTITA K.361]!



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THE AMADEUS WINDS CONDUCTED BY THE ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC'S CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD IS REGARDED AS ONE OF THE WORLD'S TOP RATED PERIOD INSTRUMENTS CHAMBER ENSEMBLES!



THE AMADEUS WINDS PLAY MOZART'S SERENADE GRAN PARTITA K.361 SUPERBLY AND IT IS EVIDENT THAT EACH MUSICIAN IS A PERIOD INSTRUMENT VIRTUOSO. THE AMADEUS WINDS'S PERFORMANCE ON THIS CD IS THE WAY MOZART WOULD HAVE EXPECTED THEM TO BE PLAYED AND HEARD! SOFTER THAN MODERN CLASSICAL INSTRUMENTS, THE SOUND QUALITY OF THE AMADEUS WINDS PERIOD INSTRUMENTS IS SUBTLY NUANCED TO PERFECTION SO THE AUDIENCE HEARS EVERY CLASSICAL MUSICAL NOTE!



ABOUT MOZART'S SERENADE GRAN PARTITA K.361

COMPOSED IN 1781 AT VIENNA, WOLFGANG MOZART'S LARGEST WIND SERENADE GRAN PARTITA K.361 WITH SEVEN MOVEMENTS AND SCORED FOR 13 WIND INSTRUMENTS WITH 2 CLARINETS, 4 HORNS, 2 OBOES, 2 BASSETT HORNS, 2 BASSOONS, AND DOUBLE-BASS. AN UNUSUALLY SOMBRE WORK FOR MOZART, HIS GRAN PARTITA K.361 WILL CAPTIVATE YOU FROM START TO FINISH WITH ITS UNIQUE BEAUTY.



MOZART'S SERENADE GRAN PARTITA K.361 HAS BEEN REGARDED FOR THE LAST 250 YEARS AS ONE OF HIS FINEST CHAMBER MUSIC MASTERPIECES. THERE IS A MAGICAL MOMENT IN THE FILM AMADEUS IN WHICH THE VILLAN ANTONIO SALIERI LISTENS FOR THE FIRST TIME TO MOZART'S GRAN PARTITA K.361. SALIERI'S TEAR JERKING DESCRIPTION OF GRAN PARTITA'S THIRD MOVEMENT ADAGIO IS QUOTED AS FOLLOWS: "ON THE PAGE IT LOOKED NOTHING. THE BEGINNING SIMPLE, ALMOST COMIC. JUST A PULSE - BASSOONS AND BASSET HORNS - LIKE A RUSTY SQUEEZEBOX. THEN SUDDENLY - HIGH ABOVE IT - AN OBOE, A SINGLE NOTE, HANGING THERE UNWAVERING, TILL A CLARINET TOOK OVER AND SWEETENED IT INTO A PHRASE OF SUCH DELIGHT! THIS WAS NO COMPOSITION BY A PERFORMING MONKEY! THIS WAS A MUSIC I HAD NEVER HEARD. FILLED WITH SUCH LONGING, SUCH UNFULFILLABLE LONGING, IT HAD ME TREMBLING. IT SEEMED TO ME THAT I WAS HEARING A VOICE OF GOD."



ABOUT CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD & ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC [AAM]

CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD IS A WORLD RENONWED ENGLISH CONDUCTOR, CONCERTMASTER, HARPSICHORDIST, WRITER AND SCHOLAR OF MUSIC. IN 1973, CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD FOUNDED THE ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC (AAM), ONE OF THE WORLD'S FIRST AND FOREMOST PERIOD-INSTRUMENT ORCHESTRAS. CONCERTS ACROSS SIX CONTINENTS AND OVER 250 RECORDINGS SINCE ITS FORMATION IN 1973 DEMONSTRATE THE AAM'S PRE-EMINENCE IN CLASSICAL MUSIC FROM THE PERIOD 1600 TO 1850.



ABOUT AMADEUS WINDS CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

THE AMADEUS WINDS CHAMBER ENSEMBLE WAS FOUNDED IN 1983 BY THE FAMED OBOIST STEPHEN HAMMER TO PERFORM ON PERIOD INSTRUMENTS MOZART'S AND BEETHOVEN'S MOST POPULAR CHAMBER MUSIC. THE AMADEUS WINDS CHAMBER ENSEMBLE MEMBER'S ARE: STEPHEN HAMMER AND MARC SCHACHMAN, OBOE; ERIC HOEPRICH AND LAWRENCE MCDONALD, CLARINET; DENNIS GODBURN AND ROBIN HOWELL, BASSOON, AND LOWELL GREER AND WILLIAM PURVIS, HORN.





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