Set Your Life to Music: Mozart for Modem

W.a. Mozart (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: W.a. Mozart
• Audio CD (April 18, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Philips
• ASIN: B00004STMR
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,474 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #14 in Music > Classical > Ballets & Dances > Dances
  • #29 in Music > Classical > Forms & Genres > Serenades & Divertimentos > Divertimentos

Track Listings

1. Divertimento No. 12 for 2 oboes, 2 bassoons & 2 horns in E flat major, K. 252 (K. 240a): Andante

2. Divertimento No. 10 for 2 horns & strings in F major ('Lodronische Nachtmusik'), K. 247: Andante grazioso

3. German dance for orchestra in B flat major, K. 567/1

4. German dance for orchestra in G major, K. 567/3

5. German dance for orchestra in A major, K. 567/5

6. Divertimento No. 8 for 2 oboes, 2 bassoons & 2 horns in F major, K. 213: Allegro spiritoso

7. German dances (6) for orchestra, K. 606

8. Divertimento No. 14 for 2 oboes, 2 horns & 2 bassoons in B flat major, K. 270: Andantino

9. Contredanse for orchestra in G major, (K. 269b/1)

10. Divertimento for violin, viola & cello in E flat major, K. 563: Allegro

11. Divertimento No. 9 for 2 oboes, 2 bassoons & 2 horns in B flat major, K. 240: Andante grazioso

12. German dance for orchestra in G major, K. 586/7

13. Minuet for orchestra in G major, K. 461/3 (K. 448a/3)

14. Divertimento for 3 basset horns in B flat major, K. Anh. 229/2 (K. 439b/2): Larghetto

15. Divertimento for 3 basset horns in B flat major, K. Anh. 229/2 (K. 439b/2): Menuetto

16. Divertimento for 3 basset horns in B flat major, K. Anh. 229/2 (K. 439b/2): Rondo

17. German dance for orchestra in B flat major, K. 600/3

18. Contredanse for orchestra in E flat major, K. 462/2 (K. 448b/2)

19. Quartet for oboe, violin, viola & cello in F major, K. 370 (K. 368b): Rondeau (Allegro)

20. Divertimento for 3 basset horns in B flat major, K. Anh. 229/4 (K. 439b/4): Larghetto

See all 24 tracks on this disc

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5.0 out of 5 stars Music to Surf the Net by, August 30, 2000

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This review is from: Set Your Life to Music: Mozart for Modem (Audio CD)

Mozart always kept up to date with the latest in his time. If he were alive in our time, he would have loved to cruise the internet. In the cover of this cd, you see Wolfgang Amadeus by a computer cruising the net. He was as speedy as the internet as well. He could work on more than one project at a time, composing operas along with a Requiem, concertos and delightful dance music. Music came to his head and he wrote it down on sheets without a single error. He was a brilliant composer. Here on this cd we hear Mozart's music he used for the Vienna Society who enjoyed to party excessively. These are excerpts from the Divertimentos, the German Dances plus several other such works. I highly recommend this cd not just as a internet companion but a party cd as well. The music has slow and fast movements. The "Serenata Notturna" the last track on the cd, is very good. The Academy of St. Martins in the Fields are the best interpretors of the music of Mozart. I heard the L.A. Mozart Orchestra do a rendition of it. It is exceptional. Mozart combined two viola concertantes and orchestra that included timpani, making a comic and enchanting piece. The rest of the stuff is good too. Get it. Get this cd and see for yourself why Mozart is and always will be, the worl'ds greatest composer. He was technically brilliant, he was gifted, music enabled him to express his human emotions of humor, imagination and perfection. And there is nothing composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that is not perfect. In the Classical Era, perfection is what composers like him sought. The only difference in the search for musical perfection among these composers (Haydn, Gluck, Salieri) was that the Salzburg genius that was Mozart was the only one who found it.