Linn Records
Mozart: Gran Partita / Pinnock, Royal Academy of Music Soloists
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Details
- Composer
- HAYDN MOZART
- Artist
- Pinnock
- Format
- SACD
- Label
- Linn Records
- Released
- Apr 08, 2016
- Catalog #
- CKD516
- UPC
- 691062051620
About
This new release features Mozart’s Serenade in B-Flat major, K. 361 "Gran partita" and Haydn’s Notturno No. 8 in G Major, Hob. 11:27. Mozart’s largest and possibly most innovative instrumental work, Gran partita demonstrates the composer’s sensitivity to the varying colors of wind instruments. Harpsichordist and conductor Trevor Pinnock leads the Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble for this album.
Review:
The veteran Baroque specialist Trevor Pinnock has made a strong series of Mozart recordings with his English Concert historical-performance orchestra. Here, with the more youthful Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble, he achieves one of his most distinctive Mozart creations. The sizable Serenade in B flat major for 13 winds, K. 361, is a work that lacks obvious tunes and can, in many performances, collapse under its own weight. Pinnock forges an extremely distinctive reading that brings out the inner polyphony in this outwardly non-polyphonic work. His ensemble passages are dense blocks of sound that have an abstract, almost Webern-like quality. To hear it at its best, sample one of the pair of minuets (tracks 2 and 4), where any galant quality to the music is pushed deep into the background. It's hard to imagine this as a "serenade," but the truth is that the circumstances of composition of this work, like those of the last three Mozart symphonies, are unknown, and Pinnock's reading is as valid as any other. An added attraction is the little-recorded Notturno No. 8 in G major, Hob. 2/27, which brings down the curtain and lowers the tension a bit with a fine example of the mature Haydn's jocularity. An often fascinating example of Pinnock's way with Mozart.
– All Music Guide (James Manheim)
Review:
The veteran Baroque specialist Trevor Pinnock has made a strong series of Mozart recordings with his English Concert historical-performance orchestra. Here, with the more youthful Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble, he achieves one of his most distinctive Mozart creations. The sizable Serenade in B flat major for 13 winds, K. 361, is a work that lacks obvious tunes and can, in many performances, collapse under its own weight. Pinnock forges an extremely distinctive reading that brings out the inner polyphony in this outwardly non-polyphonic work. His ensemble passages are dense blocks of sound that have an abstract, almost Webern-like quality. To hear it at its best, sample one of the pair of minuets (tracks 2 and 4), where any galant quality to the music is pushed deep into the background. It's hard to imagine this as a "serenade," but the truth is that the circumstances of composition of this work, like those of the last three Mozart symphonies, are unknown, and Pinnock's reading is as valid as any other. An added attraction is the little-recorded Notturno No. 8 in G major, Hob. 2/27, which brings down the curtain and lowers the tension a bit with a fine example of the mature Haydn's jocularity. An often fascinating example of Pinnock's way with Mozart.
– All Music Guide (James Manheim)
Tracklist 10 tracks
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1 I. Largo - Allegro molto 08:00
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Largo - Allegro molto
- Duration
- 08:00
- Composer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ensemble
- Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble
- Conductor
- Trevor Pinnock
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2 II. Menuetto 08:07
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Menuetto
- Duration
- 08:07
- Composer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ensemble
- Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble
- Conductor
- Trevor Pinnock
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3 III. Adagio 05:19
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Adagio
- Duration
- 05:19
- Composer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ensemble
- Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble
- Conductor
- Trevor Pinnock
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4 IV. Menuetto. Allegretto 04:25
- Track
- 4
- Title
- IV. Menuetto. Allegretto
- Duration
- 04:25
- Composer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ensemble
- Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble
- Conductor
- Trevor Pinnock
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5 V. Romance. Adagio 06:46
- Track
- 5
- Title
- V. Romance. Adagio
- Duration
- 06:46
- Composer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ensemble
- Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble
- Conductor
- Trevor Pinnock
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6 VI. Tema con variazioni 09:28
- Track
- 6
- Title
- VI. Tema con variazioni
- Duration
- 09:28
- Composer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ensemble
- Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble
- Conductor
- Trevor Pinnock
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7 VII. Finale. Allegro molto 03:28
- Track
- 7
- Title
- VII. Finale. Allegro molto
- Duration
- 03:28
- Composer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ensemble
- Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble
- Conductor
- Trevor Pinnock
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8 I. Largo - Allegro 05:36
- Track
- 8
- Title
- I. Largo - Allegro
- Duration
- 05:36
- Composer
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Ensemble
- Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble
- Conductor
- Trevor Pinnock
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9 II. Adagio 06:25
- Track
- 9
- Title
- II. Adagio
- Duration
- 06:25
- Composer
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Ensemble
- Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble
- Conductor
- Trevor Pinnock
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10 III. Finale. Vivace assai 02:57
- Track
- 10
- Title
- III. Finale. Vivace assai
- Duration
- 02:57
- Composer
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Ensemble
- Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble
- Conductor
- Trevor Pinnock