NEW YORK PHILOMUSICA CHAMBER ENSEMBLE: The Complete Mozart Divertimentos Historic First Recorded Edition CD 3

New York Philomusica Chamber Ensemble

The Complete Mozart Divertimentos Historic First Recorded Edition CD 3

© 2002 New York Philomusica (741843000924)

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An exploration of entertainment music that includes Mozart’s adaptation of an opera, some graduation music for horses, a six-wind piece and the second of five great pieces for strings and two horns.

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The Complete Mozart Divertimentos
Historic First Recorded Edition CD 3

Like many composers of his time, Mozart often rearranged his works to suit occasions other than those prompting the original compositions. One of his favorite procedures was to create symphonies out of opera overtures and multi-movement serenades. Such transcriptions represented nothing more than a selection of movements in the case of the serenades; but for the opera transcriptions, new music was often required. Mozart’s overtures for his early operas followed the fast-slow-fast model shared by the Italian overture and symphony, but the curtain often went up after the second section of the overture, or even the first. The reworking of such a piece required the elimination of the vocal or choral parts, or the composition of one or more new movements. As Mozart's version of the Il Re Pastore March and Divertimento no longer survives in his own hand, this reconstruction of the aria transcription enables us to make acquaintance with a “new” divertimento by Mozart, in addition to the other unique and original divertimentos also included on this recording. © 2002 Robert Levin


Track List:

March & Divertimento No. 11 in D, K. 251 for oboe, strings & horns
1. Marcia alla francese
2. Allegro molto
3. Menuetto
4. Andantino—Allegretto
5. Menuetto-Tema con variazioni
6. Rondo: Allegro assai; Marcia alla Francese

Divertimento No. 9 in B-flat, K. 240 for six winds
7. Allegro
8. Andante grazioso
9. Menuetto
10. Allegro

Divertimento No. 6 in C, K. 188/240b for 2 flutes, 5 trumpets and tympani
11. Andante
12. Allegro
13. Menuetto
14. Andante
15. Menuetto
16. Gavotte

March & Divertimento Il Re Pastore, K. 214 for winds & strings
17. Marcia
18. Molto Allegro
19. Andantino
20. Presto assai
21. Marcia

Artists:

John Wummer, flute
Ronald Roseman, oboe
Stephen Taylor, oboe
Martin Berinbaum, trumpet
A. Robert Johnson, horn
William Purvis, horn
Felix Galimir, violin
Isidore Cohen, violin
Timothy Eddy, 'cello
Richard Beeson, bass
Alvin Brehm, bass

Recorded in 1974

Total playing time 65:43

New York Philomusica Records
NYPm30009

Manufactured by:
New York Philomusica Records,
105 West 73rd Street
New York, NY 10023

A. Robert Johnson, Executive Producer
An Elite Recordings NYC Production:
producing - engineering Marc Aubort, Joanna Nickrenz

Cover Design: Morton Millen

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