This is the first recording on Channel Classics with the Italian based MIB Ensemble. Comprising the best players from the top orchestras of Italy, the ensemble felt the need to create their own ensemble to fill the gap in repertoire and concert possibilities for wind instruments.

Though considered ‘Tafelmusik’ – music for special occasions and street music – the Mozart Serenade is anything but a polite little piece of entertainment. Rather, it is a serious, sometimes threatening eight-part composition full of chromaticism, dramatic leaps, and intricacies.