After Mozart. (More Jazz Than Not).

(Nonesuch 79633-2)

Unless my mind is playing middle-age tricks on me, I believe that the previous recordings I have seen featuring Gidon Kremer and his young chamber orchestra have been on the Teldec label. It looks as though they have a new home. At any rate, this is an excellent recording, and a bit of a change of pace, given that some of the group's Teldec recordings highlighted contemporary music. There is still plenty of that here, but there are also familiar classics by Mozart (Serenata Notturna and Eine Kleine Nachtmusik [surely most classical music fans have by now already heard the old story about the poor fellow asking the record store clerk whether they stock any recordings of a charming work by Mozart enigmatically titled I'm Inclined to Knock Music; if you had never heard it before, I hope you enjoyed it] and Mozart's father, Leopold (the "Toy" Symphony, which in this recording features electronic toys--I thought it was kind of fun, at least the first couple of times I heard it, but my wife and daughter found it annoying in the extreme, and my dog seemed a bit perplexed).