Mozart – Complete Wind Concertos (3 CD, FLAC)

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Audio CD
SPARS Code: DDD
Number of Discs: 3
Format: FLAC (tracks+cue)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Size: 875 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes

Disc 1:
01. Sinfonia concertante in E flat for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, Orch., K.297b – 1. Allegro
02. Sinfonia concertante in E flat for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, Orch., K.297b – 2. Adagio
03. Sinfonia concertante in E flat for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, Orch., K.297b – 3. Andantino con variazioni
04. Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622 – 1. Allegro
05. Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622 – 2. Adagio
06. Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622 – 3. Rondo (Allegro)
07. Andante for Flute and Orchestra in C, K.315

Disc 2:
01. Bassoon Concerto in B flat, K.191 – 1. Allegro
02. Bassoon Concerto in B flat, K.191 – 2. Andante ma adagio
03. Bassoon Concerto in B flat, K.191 – 3. Rondo. Tempo di Menuetto
04. Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat, K.417 – 1. Allegro maestoso
05. Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat, K.417 – 2. Adagio
06. Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat, K.417 – 3. Rondo. Allegro
07. Allegro in D for Horn and Orchestra, K.412 – 1. Allegro
08. Allegro in D for Horn and Orchestra, K.412 – 2. Rondo:Allegro
09. Horn Concerto No.3 in E flat, K.447 – 1. Allegro
10. Horn Concerto No.3 in E flat, K.447 – 2. Romanze (Larghetto)
11. Horn Concerto No.3 in E flat, K.447 – 3. Allegro
12. Horn Concerto No.4 in E flat, K.495 – 1. Allegro maestoso
13. Horn Concerto No.4 in E flat, K.495 – 2. Romanza (Andante)
14. Horn Concerto No.4 in E flat, K.495 – 3. Rondo (Allegro vivace)

Disc 3:
01. Oboe Concerto in C, K.314 – 1. Allegro aperto
02. Oboe Concerto in C, K.314 – 2. Adagio non troppo
03. Oboe Concerto in C, K.314 – 3. Rondo (Allegretto)
04. Flute Concerto No.1 in G, K.313 – 1. Allegro maestoso
05. Flute Concerto No.1 in G, K.313 – 2. Adagio ma non troppo
06. Flute Concerto No.1 in G, K.313 – 3. Rondo. Tempo di Menuetto
07. Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra in C, K.299 – 1. Allegro Susan Palma
08. Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra in C, K.299 – 2. Andantino
09. Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra in C, K.299 – 3. Rondeau. Allegro

# Sinfonia concertante for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon & orchestra in E flat major, K(3) 297b (K. Anh. C 14.01) (spurious)
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
with David Singer, Stephen Taylor, William Purvis, Steven Dibner

# Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
with Charles Neidich

# Andante for flute & orchestra in C major, K. 315 (K. 285e)
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
with Susan Palma

# Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, K. 191 (K. 186e)
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
with Frank Morelli

# Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, K. 417
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
with William Purvis

# Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major, K. 412/514 (K. 386b)
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
with David Jolley

# Horn Concerto No. 3 in E flat major, K. 447
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
with William Purvis

# Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat major, K. 495
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
with David Jolley

# Oboe Concerto in C major, K. 314 (K. 285d)
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
with Randall Wolfgang

# Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major, K. 313 (K. 285c)
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
with Susan Palma

# Concerto for flute, harp & orchestra in C major, K. 299 (K. 297c)
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
with Susan Palma, Nancy Allen

Exquisite Playing of Some of Mozart’s Most Alluring and Beautiful Music – with one caveat

Such exquisite playing of these most lovely works…yet lingers still a lurking furtive thought, where is the void behind the glamor, when does conveying the sadness fall short of poignant pathos? And indeed, the more I listen to these excellent renditions the more I wonder why I feel somehow slightly short-changed. Isn’t the music-making fine enough? Don’t the performers excel at their profession? Isn’t the recording quite good at what usually is quite devilishly tricky – capturing the sounds of woodwinds and the soft overtones of horns? And again, I hear and concede all these good things…and still…doubts linger.
What is I miss? Answering such a question may not please many – may not please any. Yet there is indeed something not quite captured, like a stage play with top actors that wows the crowd with endless sprightly virtuosity, the lines read superbly, yet leaves you remembering another production more fondly, better realized. Such a moment occurred to me, when purely by chance in one week I heard two performances of the same work of Richard Strauss done in two cities three thousand miles apart. The first performance was with a second tier orchestra but a fine conductor, and the music was remarkably unified and left me in awe. The second performance was with perhaps the bets orchestra in the country, the solo chairs far and away sounding more beautiful in their solo passages. Yet despite all the beauties and rapturous playing, the final result fell just short of the other – perhaps because the conductor too often left the instrumentalists to fend for themselves. They knew the music inside out, and played it superbly, but in the end the earlier group triumphed in the work.
And of course what I miss is one organizing intelligence, a director, the mind that binds the elements and gives them their final finish. And if the director can achieve it, adds something extra, an additional depth here and there.
In such lovely music it’s easy to just sit back and luxuriate in the bliss. However, behind the delights so well done as here, we need a few traces of iron and intellectuality – more, greater purpose and more challenging horizons. Maybe in a world so filled with the ugly and the depressing Mozart’s call to a higher plane will be enough for most – holding out for the greater when so much is bestowed likely to cause an invidious reaction.
Yet so I feel when Mozart’s gifts are more complex and expansive than we sense. If we are to be ‘Caught in that sensual music all neglect’ it’s wise to recall the true mortality of art and not fall prey to less. In Mozart we still rarely recognize the full manifest glory – Batteries of alluring Sense.
“If Things of Sight such Heaven be, What Heavens be those we cannot see?”…and so persevering new charges sound.. set upon a golden bough to sing to lords and ladies of Byzantium of what is past, or passing, or to come.’