Flute & Harp Concerto

Mozart (Artist), Rampal (Artist), Paillard (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 11, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B000005E9W
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,574 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #59 in Music > Classical > Instruments > Reeds & Winds > Clarinet

Track Listings

1. Concerto For Flute And Harp KV 299: Allegro

2. Concerto For Flute And Harp KV 299: Andantino

3. Concerto For Flute And Harp KV 299: Rondo-Allegro

4. Concerto For Clarinet KV 622: Allegro

5. Concerto For Clarinet KV 622: Adagio

6. Concerto For Clarinet KV 622: Rondo

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars So simple and yet so visionary, August 9, 2003

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Jacques COULARDEAU "A soul doctor, so to say" (OLLIERGUES France) - See all my reviews
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C Major is the easiest tone of them all as Einstein used to say. It's probably because this concerto was composed in 1778 in Paris for the Duke of Guines and his Daughter, the young Duchess, who were respectively flute and harp players. The harp is a liquid instrument and Mozart uses it to sound like a mountain stream dancing and bouncing down among rocks, as clear as a salmon going up the river or a trout jumping out of the water. The flute is an air-light instrument, perfect to evoke flying and singing birds in some trees. Their association produces the acme of beauty by bringing together breezy air and running water. It sounds bucolic, sylvan and like a village feast full of joy and pleasure, or even some French garden due to the perfect construction of the concerto, following in that the precepts of Mannheim. But Mozart is a lot more than that and he pokes his head in any hole in the hedges and he looks behind any tree to find new scenes, new themes, new flowers and he intertwines all the melodic lines into some light and gracious lacework that comes out as brilliant as the multifarious dewdrops in the morning softly and sweetly dancing and swinging on some spiderweb among the trees and bushes in the dawn-rising sun. When the academic tradition requires two themes Mozart uses four or five as if he had so much music in himself that it was overflowing, that he had to use it urgently and unload his overcrowded melodious vision. And yet there is some deeper and maybe more sombre atmosphere behind brought up by the orchestra, as if the orchestra was an echo of the world outside the aristocratic salon and there we feel the dark and strong force Mozart will invest in his masonic pieces. And Mozart remains a musical genius till the end : his final Rondo is announcing with all the power we can imagine him able to summon the music of some fifty years ahead, the everwhirling waltz of the 19th century.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Perpignan

5.0 out of 5 stars Colossal performances !, November 21, 2004

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Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flute & Harp Concerto (Audio CD)

The clarinet has been always in the orchestra the best instrument to draw the the depressive path of the soul . Beware the significative and reiterative use in Tchaikovsky introduction ; as the first movement of the Fifth and the Sixth Symphonies . Aram Kachaturian employs it admirably in his Piano Concert to suggest the melancholy and sadness .

Any other instrument might be well appropriate to Mozart in this stage of his life. Written in October 1791 this was the last work apart the little Masonic cantata K 623 . Notice the fact Mozart was writing at the same time the Requiem for which he had received a commission in July .

You van find a certain resemblance between the Quintet Clarinet and this Concerto even the latter is unquestionably more sophisticated , more dramatic and better built in its tragic dimension . It is hard to express with absolute neat the tragic mood . And to my mind only five chamber works are excellent examples to show that soul state : the last quartet of Beethoven , The String Quintet of Franz Schubert op. 163 , The end of time Quartet of Oliver Messiaen , the second string quartet of Shostakovich and the sixth string quartet of Bartok. I mean: there are not too many in this sense.

This version is particularly efficient due its idiomatic character .Jacques Lancelot is to me one of the young promises of this instrument.