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Mozart and Winds (2006)

Mozart and Winds

While Janáček’s buoyant Mládí (Youth) of 1924 parlays an effervescence reminiscent of Mozart’s youthful chamber works, Brahms’s forbidding Piano Quartet expresses the German Romantic’s characteristic severity. Brahms wrote to his publisher, “You may place a picture on the title page, namely a head—with a pistol in front of it. This will give you some idea of the music. I shall send you a photograph of myself for the purpose.” Mozart’s Serenade for Winds hints at none of the domestic (or career) anxieties that plagued him during the early 1780s; though sharing the dark key of c minor with the Brahms quartet, the Serenade ends on an idyllic note, unmistakable of Mozart.

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Selections

Mládí (Youth) (1924) | Leoš Janáček (18:17)

  • Carey Bell, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
  • Anthony McGill, Clarinet
  • Frank Morelli, Bassoon
  • Richard Todd, Horn
  • Allan Vogel, Oboe
  • Carol Wincenc, Flute

Piano Quartet no. 3 in c minor, op. 60 (1875) | Johannes Brahms (34:54)

  • David Finckel, Cello
  • Jennifer Frautschi, Violin
  • Gilbert Kalish, Piano
  • Paul Neubauer, Viola

Serenade for Winds in c minor, K. 388 (1782) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (24:41)

  • Carey Bell, Bass Clarinet
  • Kimaree Gilad, Oboe
  • Dennis Godburn, Bassoon
  • Anthony McGill, Clarinet
  • Frank Morelli, Bassoon
  • Richard Todd, Horn
  • Allan Vogel, Oboe
  • Brad Warnaar, Horn

Artists

  • Carey Bell, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
  • David Finckel, Cello
  • Jennifer Frautschi, Violin
  • Kimaree Gilad, Oboe
  • Dennis Godburn, Bassoon
  • Gilbert Kalish, Piano
  • Anthony McGill, Clarinet
  • Frank Morelli, Bassoon
  • Paul Neubauer, Viola
  • Richard Todd, Horn
  • Allan Vogel, Oboe
  • Brad Warnaar, Horn
  • Carol Wincenc, Flute

Music@Menlo LIVE’s Returning to Mozart series commemorates the festival’s fourth season, a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Mozart and Winds Total Time: 77:52
Discs: 1
Price: $15.00
Year Recorded: 2006