The Complete Mozart Divertimentos: Historic First Recorded Edition: CD 3

Track Listings

1. Marcia alla francese
2. Allegro molto
3. Menuetto
4. Andantino—Allegretto
5. Menuetto-Tema con variazioni
6. Rondo: Allegro assai; Marcia alla Francese
7. Allegro
8. Andante grazioso
9. Menuetto
10. Allegro
11. Andante
12. Allegro
13. Menuetto
14. Andante
15. Menuetto
16. Gavotte
17. Marcia
18. Molto Allegro
19. Andantino
20. Presto assai

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Editorial Reviews
The New Records, 1974
"The playing is consistently first rate, with crisp attacks, aware phrasing, and clean intonation"

Album Description
This third of six CDs containing the complete set of Mozart Divertimentos, the only recording ever made of this repertoire, contains Divertimentos Nos. 11, 9, and 6, and the Divertimento Il Re Pastore. This last is the only recording ever made of an opera reconstructed as a divertimento, accomplished by famed pianist and scholar Robert Levin. The recording also includes equestrian dances for trumpets and flutes, a brilliant six-wind showcase, and the famed "French" Divertimento (No. 11), with Ronald Roseman on oboe. The ensemble is led by violinist Isidore Cohen; liner notes by Robert Levin. Also available as part of a six-CD boxed set, containing the entire Divertimento collection.

Like many composers of his time, Mozart often rearranged his works to suit occasions other than those prompting the original compositions. One of his favorite procedures was to create symphonies out of opera overtures and multi-movement serenades.

Such transcriptions represented nothing more than a selection of movements in the case of the serenades; but for the opera transcriptions, new music was often required. Mozart’s overtures for his early operas followed the fast-slow-fast model shared by the Italian overture and symphony, but the curtain often went up after the second section of the overture, or even the first. The reworking of such a piece required the elimination of the vocal or choral parts, or the composition of one or more new movements. As Mozart's version of the Il Re Pastore March and Divertimento no longer survives in his own hand, this reconstruction of the aria transcription enables us to make acquaintance with a "new" divertimento by Mozart, in addition to the other unique and original divertimentos also included on this recording. © 2002 Robert Levin

The Complete Mozart Divertimentos: Historic First Recorded Edition: CD 3, Music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, New York Philomusica, Chamber, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Artists, Classical Music, Classical Period Serenade/Cassation/Divertimento, Classical Period Symphony, German/Austrian Classical Period Opera, March for Orchestra, Mixed Chamber Ensemble without Keyboard, Opera, Orchestral, Sextet for Six Woodwind Instruments, Symphonic

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The Complete Mozart Divertimentos: Historic First Recorded Edition: CD 4 Mozart Manufacturer: NY Philomusica Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Complete Mozart Divertimentos: Historic First Recorded Edition: CD 3 The Complete Mozart Divertimentos: Historic First Recorded Edition: CD 5 The Complete Mozart Divertimentos: Historic First Recorded Edition: CD 6 ASIN: B000071XR4 Release Date: 2002-10-15

Tracks:

1. Allegro
2. Menuetto
3. Andante grazioso
4. AdagioAllegro
5. Allegro spirituoso
6. Andante
7. MenuettoContradanse en Rondeau
8. Allegro
9. Tema con 6 Variazioni
10. Menuetto
11. Adagio
12. Menuetto
13. Andante-Allegro

Album Description

In the second ten-wind divertimento, K.166/159d, Mozart employs a more balanced scoring. The more spacious slow movement is rounded off by a twice-stated coda, as is the minuet.

K. 213 is a direct, unpretentious work. Bright in sonority, its energetic first movement reiterates two quick upbeat figures. The tiny slow movement is but 8 bars in length, certainly one of Mozart's shortest. The horns dominate the trio with one of the highest solos in the entire oeuvre. The divertimento concludes with another dance, in which the simple duple-meter theme alternates with several brief couplets.

The richness of instrumental color in the Divertimento No. 15 is accentuated by the diversity of character in its six movements: witness the contrast between the vigor of the first allegro and the sublime adagio, in which the occasional music is elevated to highest art.

Describing his performance of the first violin part of K. 287/271H on October 4, 1777, Mozart wrote, "I played as if I were the greatest violinist in Europe." In his twenty-second year, both the composition and the performance seem singular achievements. © 2002 Robert Levin

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The Complete Mozart Divertimentos: Historic First Recorded Edition: CD 3 Mozart Manufacturer: NY Philomusica Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Complete Mozart Divertimentos: Historic First Recorded Edition: CD 5 The Complete Mozart Divertimentos: Historic First Recorded Edition: CD 4 The Complete Mozart Divertimentos: Historic First Recorded Edition: CD 6 ASIN: B000071XR3 Release Date: 2002-10-15

Tracks:

1. Marcia alla francese
2. Allegro molto
3. Menuetto
4. AndantinoAllegretto
5. Menuetto-Tema con variazioni
6. Rondo: Allegro assai; Marcia alla Francese
7. Allegro
8. Andante grazioso
9. Menuetto
10. Allegro
11. Andante
12. Allegro
13. Menuetto
14. Andante
15. Menuetto
16. Gavotte
17. Marcia
18. Molto Allegro
19. Andantino
20. Presto assai
21. Marcia

Album Description

Like many composers of his time, Mozart often rearranged his works to suit occasions other than those prompting the original compositions. One of his favorite procedures was to create symphonies out of opera overtures and multi-movement serenades.

Such transcriptions represented nothing more than a selection of movements in the case of the serenades; but for the opera transcriptions, new music was often required. Mozart's overtures for his early operas followed the fast-slow-fast model shared by the Italian overture and symphony, but the curtain often went up after the second section of the overture, or even the first. The reworking of such a piece required the elimination of the vocal or choral parts, or the composition of one or more new movements. As Mozart's version of the Il Re Pastore March and Divertimento no longer survives in his own hand, this reconstruction of the aria transcription enables us to make acquaintance with a "new" divertimento by Mozart, in addition to the other unique and original divertimentos also included on this recording. © 2002 Robert Levin

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