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Mozart: Complete Flute Quartets / Manco, Pecolo, Imperial, Muzzolon
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Mozart: Complete Flute Quartets / Manco, Pecolo, Imperial, Muzzolon

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Composer
MOZART, W.A.
Artist
Manco, Pecolo, Imperial, Muzzolon
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Aug 28, 2020
Catalog #
BRI95958
UPC
5028421959580

About

During the late 18th century, compositions for string trio with a wind instrument were extremely popular in amateur circles; and in keeping with this highly fashionable trend, Mozart composed four quartets for flute and strings while on a tour of France and Germany with his mother. The 22-year-old composer had lately made the acquaintance of a solo flautist, Johann Baptist Wendling, who was in contact with a rich flute-playing patron. A handsome fee was offered for some concertos and quartets – more than Mozart’s annual salary as a court musician back at home in Salzburg – and so he set to work, completing the first quartet, K385, on Christmas Day 1777. The other works here may have been composed later – perhaps Mozart ran out of enthusiasm for the project – but they all count as examples of refined chamber music conceived for skilled amateur players and domestic consumption, While hardly as complex a showcase of Mozart’s compositional skills as the string quartets he dedicated to Haydn, all four quartets abounding in gentle wit and good humour, and written not as mini-concertos for flute and string trio but as chamber music for equal partners. Every now and then Mozart touches the sublime, as so often he could, such as the slow variation movement of K285b, which recalls the similar movement in the ‘Gran Partita’ wind serenade in its weightless gravity of expression. This new recording of the quartets offers a substantial bonus, in the shape of the Oboe Quartet K370 arranged for the ensemble at hand. The performances are led by the Italian flautist Andrea Manco, who in 2003, at just 20 years old, became principal flute of the Teatro Regio orchestra in Turin under the directorship of Gianandrea Noseda.

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro 06:51
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    06:51
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Andrea Manco, Andrea Pecolo, Joel Impérial, Gianluca Muzzolon
  2. 2 II. Adagio 02:35
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    02:35
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Andrea Manco, Andrea Pecolo, Joel Impérial, Gianluca Muzzolon
  3. 3 III. Rondeau 04:34
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Rondeau
    Duration
    04:34
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Andrea Manco, Andrea Pecolo, Joel Impérial, Gianluca Muzzolon
  4. 4 I. Andante 05:35
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Andante
    Duration
    05:35
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Andrea Manco, Andrea Pecolo, Joel Impérial, Gianluca Muzzolon
  5. 5 II. Tempo di minuet 02:29
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Tempo di minuet
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Andrea Manco, Andrea Pecolo, Joel Impérial, Gianluca Muzzolon
  6. 6 I. Allegro 06:41
    Track
    6
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    06:41
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Andrea Manco, Andrea Pecolo, Joel Impérial, Gianluca Muzzolon
  7. 7 II. Adagio 03:17
    Track
    7
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    03:17
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Andrea Manco, Andrea Pecolo, Joel Impérial, Gianluca Muzzolon
  8. 8 III. Rondeau: Allegro 04:16
    Track
    8
    Title
    III. Rondeau: Allegro
    Duration
    04:16
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Andrea Manco, Andrea Pecolo, Joel Impérial, Gianluca Muzzolon
  9. 9 I. Allegro 05:51
    Track
    9
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    05:51
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Andrea Manco, Andrea Pecolo, Joel Impérial, Gianluca Muzzolon
  10. 10 II. Theme and Variations 10:30
    Track
    10
    Title
    II. Theme and Variations
    Duration
    10:30
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Andrea Manco, Andrea Pecolo, Joel Impérial, Gianluca Muzzolon
  11. 11 I. Andante 06:03
    Track
    11
    Title
    I. Andante
    Duration
    06:03
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Andrea Manco, Andrea Pecolo, Joel Impérial, Gianluca Muzzolon
  12. 12 II. Minuet 02:18
    Track
    12
    Title
    II. Minuet
    Duration
    02:18
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Andrea Manco, Andrea Pecolo, Joel Impérial, Gianluca Muzzolon
  13. 13 III. Rondo: Allegretto grazioso 03:22
    Track
    13
    Title
    III. Rondo: Allegretto grazioso
    Duration
    03:22
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Andrea Manco, Andrea Pecolo, Joel Impérial, Gianluca Muzzolon