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Mozart: Divertimento In E Flat / Kraggerud, Tomter, Richter
Naxos

Mozart: Divertimento In E Flat / Kraggerud, Tomter, Richter

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Composer
MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS
Artist
Kraggerud, Tomter, Richter
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Jun 28, 2011
Catalog #
8572258
UPC
747313225873

About


It's great to see this work, incomparably the most magnificent string trio ever written, getting increasing attention on disc. We recently welcomed a splendid new recording on BIS, and now here's another, equally fine. It seems that the music brings out the best in its performers, as well it must. Anyone attempting a nearly 50-minute-long string trio had better have the chops to carry it off. Perhaps the outstanding quality of this performance is its rhythmic thrust, combined with the ability of the players to characterize their musical lines in an independent but still effectively coordinated way.

I'm thinking in particular of cellist Christoph Richter's delightful, swooping comments at the end of the first-movement exposition, the almost "parlante" phrasing of the finale's principal rondo theme, and the generously lyrical phrasing of the grand second-movement Adagio. In music bursting with some of Mozart's catchiest tunes, there's never a moment that turns dull or static in this performance, and the sonics let the music breathe in a warm but ideally intimate setting. You really can't have too many versions of this piece, one of the glories of the chamber music literature. Let this be one of them.

--David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com

Tracklist 7 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro 12:14
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    12:14
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Henning Kraggerud, Lars Anders Tomter, Christoph Richter
  2. 2 II. Adagio 10:57
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    10:57
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Henning Kraggerud, Lars Anders Tomter, Christoph Richter
  3. 3 III. Menuetto: Allegretto - Trio 05:07
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Menuetto: Allegretto - Trio
    Duration
    05:07
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Henning Kraggerud, Lars Anders Tomter, Christoph Richter
  4. 4 IV. Andante 07:06
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Andante
    Duration
    07:06
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Henning Kraggerud, Lars Anders Tomter, Christoph Richter
  5. 5 V. Menuetto: Allegretto - Trio I - Trio II 05:19
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. Menuetto: Allegretto - Trio I - Trio II
    Duration
    05:19
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Henning Kraggerud, Lars Anders Tomter, Christoph Richter
  6. 6 VI. Allegro 06:11
    Track
    6
    Title
    VI. Allegro
    Duration
    06:11
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Henning Kraggerud, Lars Anders Tomter, Christoph Richter
  7. 7 String Trio in G Major, K. Anh. 66 (K. 562e): I. Allegro (fragment) 04:10
    Track
    7
    Title
    String Trio in G Major, K. Anh. 66 (K. 562e): I. Allegro (fragment)
    Duration
    04:10
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Henning Kraggerud, Lars Anders Tomter, Christoph Richter