Mozart: Serenade K 203, Divertimento K 251 / Janiczek , Scottish Chamber Orchestra

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Label
Linn Records
Release Date
May 27, 2014
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Scottish Chamber Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Janiczek
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 27, 2014
    • UPC
      691062032032
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BKD320
    • LABEL
      Linn Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. March in D Major, K. 237

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Janiczek

    2. I. Andante maestoso - Allegro assai

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Janiczek

    3. II. (Andante)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Janiczek

    4. III. Minuet and Trio

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Janiczek

    5. IV. (Allegro)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Janiczek

    6. V. Minuet and Trio

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Janiczek

    7. VI. (Andante)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Janiczek

    8. VII. Minuet and Trio

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Janiczek

    9. VIII. Prestissimo

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Janiczek

    10. I. Allegro molto (Arr. for Orchestra)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Janiczek

    11. II. Minuet & Trio (Arr. for Orchestra)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Janiczek

    12. III. Andantino (Adagio) [Arr. for Orchestra]

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Janiczek

    13. IV. Minuet. Tema con variazioni (Arr. for Orchestra)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Janiczek

    14. V. Rondo. Allegro assai (Arr. for Orchestra)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Janiczek

    15. VI. Marcia alla francese (Arr. for Orchestra)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Alexander Janiczek


The first thing you notice is the vibrant sound, the ensemble's immediacy and depth, giving a realistic spatial and sonic picture of the array of musicians and instruments performing in a very complementary acoustic. Then you have to appreciate the robust rhythmic character and clean articulation in the opening March K. 189, the companion piece to the following Serenade K. 185. Indeed, throughout the program you get the sure impression that these performers know and love Mozart, putting sufficient energy into each movement of each piece, granting each the appropriate character of Menuet or March, Andante grazioso or Allegro. The orchestra's gentle way with the thematic rhythms in the Serenade's Andante grazioso and the subtlety with which the players (and conductor) highlight this movement's slight but important mood shifts is a pure pleasure to hear.

Violinist/director Alexander Janiczek asks for tempos that neither blaze nor plod nor obscure the happy spirit of these primarily youthful works. As a soloist in the two Rondos and the lovely Adagio K. 261 Janiczek also provides tasteful cadenzas that highlight his expertly executed, personable, open-hearted style. And who can fail to be impressed with the Divertimento K. 113, a remarkably "mature" piece of orchestral writing that shows a 15-year-old composer already in control of techniques and thematic devices that would reappear in later, more famous, more extensively developed forms. This is a very well-played, thoughtfully programmed recording of works that are all too often ruined by casual, matter-of-fact treatment; if its primary purpose is entertainment, which it should be, then it succeeds admirably.

– ClassicsToday