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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Two Mozart Masterpieces in Contemporary Transcription)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Two Mozart Masterpieces in Contemporary Transcription: Gran Partita; String Quintet in G Minor. Malcolm Bilson; Zvi Meniker; Abigail Graham; Monica Toth; Laszlo More; Csilla Valyi. Hungaroton HCD 32414, 2006.
This disc presents two rather radical rearrangements of popular works by Mozart--his Serenade in B-flat Major known as the "Gran Partita" (K. 361) and his String Quintet in G Minor (K. 516). Both arrangements date from shortly after Mozart's death. The first, an arrangement of the "Gran Partita" serenade for oboe, violin, viola, cello, and keyboard, is by Christoph Freidrich Gottlieb Schwencke (1767-1822); the second is a four-hand piano setting of the string quintet, and is by Carl David Stegmann (1751-1826). Schwencke's quintet arrangement of the serenade, written after the original was introduced to him by clarinetist Anton Stadler in 1792, is a masterpiece of orchestration, achieving a surprisingly rich and musically faithful ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Joe Banno June 26, 1995 700+ words
...Mozart serenade. On Saturday, the "Gran Partita" Serenade for 13 Winds was split in...creation sounded wan and reticent. The "Gran Partita" was another story, the conductor...movingly from the heart. And if the "Gran Partita" gave Saturday's audience a taste...
