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Mozart – Violin Concertos

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Catalogue numberBIS-1754 SACD
Release date2010-09-24
Discs1
Orig. sample rate44100Hz
Total time79:52



International Record Review: "This is a wonderfully refreshing Mozart disc from Richard Tognetti and the remarkable Australian Chamber Orchestra - Very strongly recommended"; Music Web International, Recording of the Month: "Tognetti and his fellow musicians bring this music to life in ways I hadn’t previously imagined, and as a result win through on a hard-fought shelf-full of alternatives".

Experiencing the Australian Chamber Orchestra and their leader Richard Tognetti in concert has been described in The Times (UK) as 'like taking a swig of a vitamin drink', while a reviewer in the San Francisco Chronicle was struck by 'the sort of fleet rhythmic control and tonal purity that most chamber groups can only envy.' As demonstrated by this recording of Mozart's violin concertos (the first of two discs), both statements also apply to the team's performances in the studio. These are works which exist in countless versions on disc, and in interpretations of the most varying kind. Even so, Tognetti and his band from the very first tutti chord of Concerto No.3 manage to create a rare sense of expectancy, building sonorities that feel constantly fresh and new, and infusing even the most innocuous figure in the accompaniment with an uncommon rhythmic and dynamic vitality. Contributing to this is the fact that the strings (soloist and tutti) play on gut strings, while the wind players perform on replicas of instruments from Mozart's time. At the same time all hard-line dogmatism has been avoided: as Tognetti writes in his own introduction to the recording 'we know what the treatises say, and that they diverge like different chefs describing the same dish. And we know that Mozart was the most strikingly original of musicians, and thus may have done nothing like what the experts' dissertations directed. So we simply look at the notes he wrote down, and start from there.' It is certainly a philosophy that seems to work, especially for a team - Tognetti has been the leader and artistic director of the ACO for more than 20 years - with a relationship between tutti players and soloist that is so close as to seem almost telepathic.
 
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Extra material for download
 
 
  Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  Violin Concerto No.3 in G major, K216 21:59
01 I. Allegro 08:47 $ 1.84 USD
02 II. Adagio 06:45 $ 1.42 USD
03 III. Rondeau. Allegro – Andante – Allegretto – Tempo
primo
06:27 $ 1.35 USD
 
  Violin Concerto No.5 in A major, K219 27:39
04 I. Allegro aperto – Adagio – Allegro aperto 09:52 $ 2.07 USD
05 II. Adagio 09:03 $ 1.90 USD
06 III. Rondeau. Tempo di Menuetto 08:44 $ 1.83 USD
 
 
  Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  Sinfonia concertante in E flat major, K364 for violin, viola and orchestra 28:44
07 I. Allegro maestoso 12:53 $ 2.71 USD
08 II. Andante 09:52 $ 2.07 USD
09 III. Presto 05:59 $ 1.26 USD
 
  Album total 79:52
OrchestraAustralian Chamber Orchestra
Violin and leaderTognetti, Richard
ComposerMozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
ViolaMoore, Christopher

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