Chamber, Quintets, Mozart (composer)
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Special offer. Mozart: String Quintets K515 & K516
RecommendedQuatuor Ebène, Antoine Tamestit (viola)
The performances on this new release are as accomplished as we would expect from players of this calibre. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Building A Library, January 2024, Recommended Recording (String Quintet No. 3)
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Chamber
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Mozart: Clarinet Concerto & Clarinet Quintet
RecommendedThea King (basset clarinet)
English Chamber Orchestra, Gabreili String Quartet, Jeffrey Tate
The two works on this disc represent Mozart's clarinet writing at its most inspired; however, the instrument for which they were written differed in several respects from the modern clarinet,... —
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Building a Library, September 2006, First Choice
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Building a Library, March 2019, Also Recommended
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Mozart & Beethoven - Quintets for Piano & Winds
RecommendedStephen Hough (piano)
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet
The combination of Stephen Hough and wind players from the BPO makes for sparkling performances of these two quintets… It is noticeable that the Berlin horn is less plummy than the Viennese,... —
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Building a Library, April 2007, Single Disc Choice
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Beethoven & Mozart: Quintets for Piano and Wind
RecommendedWalter Gieseking, Dennis Brain
Philharmonia Wind Quartet, Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
There have never been any doubts about these performances. The horn playing in the Sinfoniaconcertante is unsurpassable and in the quintets Gieseking's lightness and his clarity and sense of... —
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Building a Library, April 2007, Historic Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Mozart: Horn Concertos & Horn Quintet
RecommendedPip Eastop (natural horn)
The Hanover Band, with the Eroica Quartet, Anthony Halstead
Even those who know these concertos quite well will find much to surprise here...Not least, where most players of the natural horn seek to minimise the difference in tone of those pitches that... —
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Building a Library, September 2017, Period Instrument Choice
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The performances of the four original works (the last two, written in 1790 and 1791, look forward to Beethoven and pay homage to Haydn) are magnificently played throughout — conversational,... —
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Special offer. Mozart: The Complete String Quintets
RecommendedArpad Gérecz (violin) & Max Lesueur (viola)
Grumiaux Trio
Of the six works Mozart wrote for string quintet, that in B flat major, K174, is an early composition, written at the age of 17. It's a well-made, enjoyable work, but not a great deal more than... —
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Building a Library, February 2005, First Choice
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Building a Library, February 2013, First Choice
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The Danish horn player Ursula Paludan Monberg, thoroughly in command of her instrument, produces a miraculously smooth and agile line with secure tuning…the continuo section of Arcangelo, led... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2020, Chamber Choice
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The clarinet ’s cool, refined tones blend with warm, pliable strings to irresistible effect in Mozart ’s joyful Quintet, K581 and Widmann’s substantial, singlemovement response – a complex and... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Special offer. Kaleidoscope - Beethoven Transcriptions
Saint-Saëns, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Beethoven
Mari Kodama (piano)
he Saint-Saens Allegretto (from Op. 59 No. 1) comes over with a light and velvet touch and not a trace of mannerism…Most successful are Musorgsky’s deft arrangements of movements from the F... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, Instrumental Choice
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