Mozart: Night Music [Import]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Artist), Andrew Manze (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 9, 2003)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
• ASIN: B0000AQVM4
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #126,838 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars RATED 5 STARS BY MOZART AUDIOPHILES #1 PERIOD INSTRUMENT - MOZART A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC K.525 BY ANDREW MANZE & ENGLISH CONCERT, April 4, 2008

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Mozart Scholar & Audiophile "DR. PATRICK HILL" (SAN FRANCISCO CA) - See all my reviews

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WINNER OF GRAMMOPHON'S "EDITOR'S CHOICE CD AWARD" IN 2003, THIS TOUR-DE-FORCE MOZART SERENADES CD [EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK K.525 AND SERENATA NOTTURNA K.239] PERFORMED BY VIOLINIST/CONDUCTOR ANDREW MANZE AND LONDON'S WORLD-CLASS ENGLISH CONCERT IS FOUND IN MOST MOZART AUDIOPHILE'S CD/MP3 COLLECTION!

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART [1756 - 1791]
*SERENADE NO.13 IN G EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC [K.525]
*SERENADE NO.6 IN D [SERENATA NOTTURNA K.239]
*DIVERTIMENTO IN F FOR STRINGS & HORNS [K.522 A MUSICAL JOKE]
PERFORMED BY ANDREW MANZE, VIOLINIST/CONDUCTOR OF LONDON'S WORLD-CLASS ENGLISH CONCERT

CD REVIEWER NOTE TO AMAZON.COM READERS: I TYPE WITH LARGE CAP LETTERS TO READ WHAT I WRITE BECAUSE I AM A 100% DISABLED DECORATED VIETNAM VETERAN AND AM ALMOST BLIND WITH MACULAR DEGENERATION. I APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAPS MAY CAUSE YOU. ~PATRICK HILL, MOZART SCHOLAR & AUTHOR~

CD REVIEW
ON THIS MOZART CD THAT IS REGARDED BY MOZART AUDIOPHILES AS ONE OF WORLD'S GREATEST RECORDINGS OF MOZART'S K.525 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC AND SERENTA NOTTURNA K.239 , VIOLINIST ANDREW MANZE CONDUCTS THE ENGLISH CONCERT ON 18TH CENTURY PERIOD INSTRUMENTS TO DELIVER A TOUR-DE-FORCE PERFORMANCE OF MOZART'S SERENADES THAT WILL DELIGHT YOUR SENSES FROM START TO FINISH! ANDREW MANZE IS A CLASSICAL VIOLINIST WITH EXTRAORDINARY FLAIR WHO PLAYS MOZART'S SERENADES WITH PANACHE AND PERFECTION EXACTLY LIKE THE COMPOSER EXPECTED HIS SERERNADES K.525 AND K.239 TO BE PLAYED.

IN THE 18TH CENTURY, ONE OF WOLFGANG MOZART'S SPECIALTIES WAS COMPOSING FESTIVE ENTERTAINMENT MUSIC CALLED DIVERTIMENTI AND SERENADES TO BE PLAYED AS BACKGROUND MUSIC BY A SMALL CHAMBER MUSIC ENSEMBLE AT OUTDOOR SOCIAL EVENTS SUCH AS NAME DAYS, BIRTHDAYS, NEW YEAR'S PARTIES, WEDDINGS, AND SCHOOL GRADUATION CELEBRATIONS WHERE GUESTS ENJOYED DRINKS AND MEALS. THE WELL-TO-DO PATRON'S OF MOZART'S ENTERTAINMENT MUSIC [ALSO CALLED CHAMBER MUSIC] WERE THE ARISTOCRACY IN MOZART'S NATIVE SALZBURG AND VIENNA.

ABOUT MOZART'S SERENADE NO.13 IN G [K.525 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC]
WOLFGANG MOZART'S SERENADE NO.13 [K.525 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC] IS WITHOUT A DOUBT HIS MOST POPULAR AND RECOGNIZED ENTERTAINMENT MUSIC! AS MOZART'S ONE AND ONLY SERENADE COMPOSED FOR STRINGS [VIOLINS, VIOLA, VIOLONCELLO, AND DOUBLE BASS], SERENADE NO.13 [K.525 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC] LEAVES MOST AUDIENCES FILLED WITH BREATHTAKING AWE AND WONDER EVERY TIME THEY HEAR ITS CLASSICAL MUSICAL BEAUTY AND PERFECTION!

SCORED FOR TWO VIOLINS, VIOLA, VIOLONCELLO, AND DOUBLE BASS, MOZART'S FAMOUS SERENADE NO.13 [K.525 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC] WAS COMPOSED AT VIENNA IN AUGUST 1787 A FEW MONTHS AFTER THE DEATH OF WOLFGANG'S FATHER LEOPOLD MOZART, WHILE WOLFGANG MOZART WAS PREPARING HIS NEW OPERA 'DON GIOVANNI' FOR PERFORMANCE IN PRAGUE.

CLOSER IN STRUCTURE TO A SYMPHONY THAN WHAT WE EXPECT OF A SERENADE, MOZART'S SERENADE NO.13 [K.525 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC] OPENS WITH ITS FAMOUS ASCENDING MANNHEIM ROCKET THEME IN ITS CHEERFULLY FAST ALLEGRO 1ST MOVEMENT, THEN K.525 SURPRISES OUR EARS WITH ITS SERENELY GRACEFUL SLOW ROMANCE 2ND MOVEMENT FULL OF SWEET SUBTLE YEARNING, THEN K.525 DELIGHTS OUR EARS WITH A VIVACIOUSLY CHARMING MINUET 3RD MOVEMENT THAT EXQUISITELY CONTRASTS FIRM RHYTHMIC NOTES WITH FLOWING LYRICAL NOTES, AND K.525'S FINALE CAPTIVATES OUR EARS WITH AN EXUBERANT RONDO 4TH MOVEMENT BUBBLING FULL OF GOOD HUMOR.

ABOUT MOZART'S SERENADE NO.6 IN D [SERENATA NOTTURNA K.239]
MOZART'S SERENADE NO.6 [SERENATA NOTTURNA K.239] IS A BEAUTIFUL ROMATIC SERENADE SCORED FOR A SOLO QUARTET OF 2 VIOLINS, VIOLAS, AND STRING BASS ON ONE SIDE, AND A LARGER GROUP OF 2 VIOLINS, VIOLAS, CELLOS, AND TIMPANI [KETTLE DRUMS]. THE USE OF THE TERM "NOTTURN"' IN THE TITLE REFERS TO A PIECE THAT WAS INTENDED TO BE PLAYED AT NIGHT RATHER THAN DAYTIME. K.239'S FIRST MOVEMENT IS A STATELY MARCH IN WHICH GROUPS OF INSTRUMENTS ARE CONTRASTED. K.239'S SECOND MOVEMENT IS A JOYOUS MINUET TRIO. K.239'S THIRD MOVEMENT IS A LIVELY COUNTRY DANCE WITH A SPIRITED CONCLUSION.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wait - get it a little cheaper!!!, July 25, 2011

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Thomas More (Billings, MT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mozart: Night Music (Audio CD)

There's no debating the quality of this issue, but I just wanted to fill you in on a slightly cheaper 2011 re-release of this CD. Occasionally Harmonia Mundi will take a popular recording from their company and release it inexpensively with an issue of their full catalog, as they did a few years ago with Vivaldi: Concert for the Prince of Poland, another Andrew Manze recording. So it is with this CD, now released more cheaply at this linkMozart: Night Music. If you're going to get it, you might as well have the best price, right?

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nicely produced and preformed., November 22, 2009

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Jen (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

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We have enjoyed listening to Night Music. If you are a Mozart fan and don't have this piece of music it is needed in your collection.