Mozart:Chamber Music Salzburg Festival(1956-1991)

　　Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Chamber Music
　　By Tim Page
　　Live recordings from Salzburg, the mecca of Mozart.
　　Mozart's great masterpieces of chamber music performed by the world's leading quartets, from the Barylli in 1956 to the Emerson (right) and the Hagen in the 1990s. All previously unreleased recordings.
　　Salzburg is hallowed ground for all musicians and never more so than when t... (展开全部) 　　Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Chamber Music
　　By Tim Page
　　Live recordings from Salzburg, the mecca of Mozart.
　　Mozart's great masterpieces of chamber music performed by the world's leading quartets, from the Barylli in 1956 to the Emerson (right) and the Hagen in the 1990s. All previously unreleased recordings.
　　Salzburg is hallowed ground for all musicians and never more so than when they come to play the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It is here, under the looming Alps, that the composer was born, made some of his earliest public appearances, wrote his first masterpieces; it is here that father Leopold, sister Nannerl and wife Constanze are buried; it is here that the name of Mozart is hymned to the skies. His image greets a visitor seemingly everywhere, his music sings from concert halls and courtyards — indeed, it sometimes seems, from the ancient streets themselves.
　　Standards of performance are very high here, and the approval of a Salzburg audience is not easily won. Even prior to the establishment of the Salzburg Festival, the city had honored its most distinguished son with festivals in 1842, 1856, 1877 and then, in one manner or another, virtually every year thereafter. By the time the bicentennial of Mozart's birth arrived in 1956, the advent of recording tape had made possible the permanent preservation of live concerts; two performances from that celebratory summer are included on the first disc in this collection.
　　Only 175 miles separate Salzburg from Prague, but it must have seemed a much further distance in 1956, at the height of the Cold War, with the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian Revolution only a few months off. Still, the players in the Czechoslovakia-based Smetana Quartet crossed from East to West without impediment, and this warm, empathic and delightfully good-humored rendition of the Quartet in E-flat, K. 428, represents their artistry at its sturdy best.
　　The Barylli Quartet, which had played in the Mozarteum exactly one week earlier, was famed for its patrician refinement. The seamless sweetness of the group's performance of the Clarinet Quintet (K. 581) with Antoine de Bavier will come as no surprise to admirers of the Barylli's vintage recordings for the Westminster label, which are now much sought-after collector's items.
　　The Emerson and Juilliard String Quartets had much in common. Both groups were based in New York; both pursued a wide-ranging yet weighty repertory; both brought intellectual probity to everything they played. The Juilliard sound was inseparable from the unmistakably lean, wiry tone of Robert Mann's lead violin. Other groups made a "prettier" sound, but when the Juilliard players were at their best, it was hard to think of another quartet that took a listener so deeply inside the music, with Mann as inspired shaman.
　　Meanwhile, the Emerson musicians, in a spirit of participatory democracy that might have pleased their namesake, have always steadfastly refused to designate a first violinist at all; from the beginning, Philip Setzer and Eugene Drucker have traded places from piece to piece. I particularly admire the group's spacious, organ-like way with the seraphic set of variations in the third movement of the String Quartet in A, K. 464, in which all the players seem to be breathing as one. Much the same unanimity can be found in the performance of the so-called "Dissonance" Quartet (K. 465) by the Emerson's great Japanese contemporaries, the Tokyo String Quartet.
　　Finally, the young Hagen Quartet, founded and still in residence at the Mozarteum, concludes the set with the sun-splashed Quartet in F, K. 590 — and the promise of superb chamber music in Salzburg for years to come.
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　　Titel: Mozart: Chamber Works
　　Kompositör: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
　　Main Performer: Antoine de Bavier (Clarinet)
　　Orchestra / Ensemble(s): Smetana Qt; Barylli Quartet; Emerson Qt
　　Releasedatum: 16/12/2002
　　Label / Distributor: Andante / Select
　　Antal delar i set: 3
　　Speltid: 3 hours 5 minutes
　　Genre(s): Chamber
　　Stereo: Mixed
　　EAN: 699487195127
　　Work 1
　　Work Title: String Quartet No. 16 in E flat, K428/K421b
　　Excerpt(s): 1. Allegro non troppo
　　2. Andante con moto
　　3. Menuetto
　　4. Allegro vivace
　　Kompositör: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
　　Genre: Chamber
　　Date Written: 1783
　　Orkester/Ensemble: Smetana Qt
　　Work 2
　　Work Title: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A, K581
　　Excerpt(s): 1. Allegro
　　2. Larghetto
　　3. Menuetto
　　4. Allegretto con variazioni
　　Kompositör: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
　　Genre: Chamber
　　Date Written: 1789
　　Orkester/Ensemble: Barylli Quartet
　　Main Performer: Antoine de Bavier (Clarinet)
　　Opera Part(s): Antoine de Bavier
　　Work 3
　　Work Title: String Quartet No. 18 in A, K464
　　Excerpt(s): 1. Allegro
　　2. Menuetto
　　3. Andante
　　4. Allegro ma non troppo
　　Kompositör: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
　　Genre: Chamber
　　Date Written: 1785
　　Orkester/Ensemble: Emerson Qt
　　Work 4
　　Work Title: String Quartet No. 19, 'Dissonance' in C, K465
　　Excerpt(s): 1. Adagio_Allegro
　　2. Andante cantabile
　　3. Menuetto
　　4. Allegro molto
　　Kompositör: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
　　Genre: Chamber
　　Date Written: 1785
　　Orkester/Ensemble: Tokyo Qt
　　Work 5
　　Work Title: String Quartet No. 20, 'Hoffmeister' in D, K499
　　Excerpt(s): 1. Menuetto
　　Kompositör: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
　　Genre: Chamber
　　Date Written: 1786
　　Orkester/Ensemble: Juilliard Qt
　　Work 6
　　Work Title: String Quartet No. 23 in F, K590
　　Excerpt(s): 1. String Quartet No. 23 in F, K590
　　Kompositör: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
　　Genre: Chamber
　　Date Written: 1790
　　Orkester/Ensemble: Hagen Qt
　　Work 7
　　Work Title: Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546
　　Excerpt(s): 1. Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546
　　Kompositör: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
　　Genre: Chamber
　　Date Written: 1788
　　Orkester/Ensemble: Cleveland Qt