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Mozart – The Quintets

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Catalogue numberBIS-9046 CD
Release date2014-07-10
Discs4
Total time288:00

This album is also available as an album bundle.

Mozart's string quintets, and particularly the last four (K 515, K 516, K 593 and K 614) are often cited as being among the finest examples of his chamber music. The musicologist Charles Rosen has drawn attention to the fact that the quintets always appeared shortly after the completion of a series of quartets, as if the medium represented a more ideal and final realisation of the composer’s musical thoughts. It is not, however, a question of quartets with a fifth, ‘extra’ part. Even the early K174 possesses a striking complexity, and as a group the quintets employ a great variety of textures: dialogues between two instruments with three-part accompaniment from the others, the alternation of two string trios (two violins and viola or two violas and cello), or violin duets, alongside viola duets, accompanied by the cello. The performances of these intricate masterworks by the Orlando Quartet and Nobuko Imai, have been highly regarded ever since their original releases and were for instance described as 'magisterial and gripping' on AllMusic.com. They now appear in this box set, accompanied by a fourth disc which brings together three further Mozart quintets for varying constellations: the charming Horn Quintet from 1782, the extraordinary Clarinet Quintet from seven years later and the Quintet for piano and winds which Mozart in a letter to his father in 1784 described as 'the best thing I have written so far'. Performing these works here are eminent musicians including Radovan Vlatković, Martin Fröst and Stephen Hough.
 
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Disc 1
 
  Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  String Quintet in B flat major, KV174 38:03
01 I. Allegro moderato 12:28 $ 1.87 USD
02 II. Adagio 12:00 $ 1.80 USD
03 III. Menuetto ma allegretto 04:58 $ 0.75 USD
04 IV. Allegro 08:37 $ 1.29 USD
 
  String Quintet in C minor, KV406 27:54
05 I. Allegro 12:08 $ 1.82 USD
06 II. Andante 04:17 $ 0.64 USD
07 III. Minuetto in canone - Trio al rovescio 04:42 $ 0.71 USD
08 IV. Allegro 06:47 $ 1.02 USD
 
 
Disc 2
 
  Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  String Quintet in C, KV515 36:10
01 I. Allegro 13:50 $ 2.08 USD
02 II. Andante 09:30 $ 1.43 USD
03 III. Menuetto. Allegretto 05:48 $ 0.87 USD
04 IV. (Allegro) 07:02 $ 1.06 USD
 
  String Quintet in D, KV593 33:18
05 I. Larghetto - Allegro - Larghetto - Tempo I (Allegro) 12:12 $ 1.83 USD
06 II. Adagio 07:29 $ 1.12 USD
07 III. Menuetto. Allegretto 05:43 $ 0.86 USD
08 IV. Finale. Allegro 07:54 $ 1.19 USD
 
 
Disc 3
 
  Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  String Quintet in G minor, KV516 40:42
01 I. Allegro 15:42 $ 2.36 USD
02 II. Menuetto. Allegretto 05:29 $ 0.82 USD
03 III. Adagio ma non troppo 08:56 $ 1.34 USD
04 IV. Adagio 02:50 $ 0.43 USD
05 V. Allegro 07:45 $ 1.16 USD
 
  String Quintet in E flat, KV614 28:20
06 I. Allegro di molto 11:15 $ 1.69 USD
07 II. Andante 07:33 $ 1.13 USD
08 III. Menuetto. Allegretto 04:22 $ 0.66 USD
09 IV. Allegro 05:10 $ 0.78 USD
 
 
Disc 4
 
  Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  Quintet in E flat major, KV 452 24:27
01 I. Largo - Allegro moderato 10:08 $ 1.52 USD
02 II. Larghetto 08:44 $ 1.31 USD
03 III. Allegretto 05:35 $ 0.84 USD
 
  Clarinet Quintet in A major, KV 581 35:55
04 I. Allegro 13:09 $ 1.97 USD
05 II. Larghetto 06:26 $ 0.97 USD
06 III. Menuetto - Trio I - Trio II 06:58 $ 1.05 USD
07 IV. Allegretto con Variazioni 09:22 $ 1.41 USD
 
  Quintet in E flat major, KV 407 17:47
08 I. Allegro 08:42 $ 1.31 USD
09 II. Andante 05:09 $ 0.77 USD
10 III. Rondo. Allegro 03:56 $ 0.59 USD
 
  Album total 288:00
ComposerMozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
EnsembleBerlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet
Ensemble Villa Musica
Orlando Quartet
Vertavo String Quartet
ViolaImai, Nobuko
PianoHough, Stephen
ClarinetFröst, Martin

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