The Mozart Collection

Release Date: 16th Oct 2020
Catalogue No: A204
Label: Arcana

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Mozart: Divertimento in F major, K213

Zefiro (early music ensemble)
Alfredo Bernardini

Mozart: Divertimento in B flat, K240

Zefiro (early music ensemble)
Alfredo Bernardini

Mozart: Divertimento in E flat, K252

Zefiro (early music ensemble)
Alfredo Bernardini

Mozart: Divertimento in F, K253

Zefiro (early music ensemble)
Alfredo Bernardini

Mozart: Divertimento in B flat, K270

Zefiro (early music ensemble)
Alfredo Bernardini

Mozart: Serenade No. 11 in E flat major, K375

Zefiro (early music ensemble)
Alfredo Bernardini

Mozart: Serenade No. 12 in C minor, K388

Zefiro (early music ensemble)
Alfredo Bernardini

Mozart: Divertimento in B flat, K186

Zefiro (early music ensemble)
Alfredo Bernardini

Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B flat major, K361 'Gran Partita'

Zefiro (early music ensemble)
Alfredo Bernardini

Mozart: Divertimento in E flat, K166

Zefiro (early music ensemble)
Alfredo Bernardini

Excerpt, Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 - Arranged for Wind Ensemble

Zefiro (early music ensemble)
Alfredo Bernardini

Excerpt, Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527 - Arranged for Wind Ensemble

Zefiro (early music ensemble)
Alfredo Bernardini

Excerpt, Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588 - Arranged for wind ensemble

Zefiro (early music ensemble)
Alfredo Bernardini

Mozart: Divertimento in D major, K131

Zefiro (early music ensemble)
Alfredo Bernardini

Mozart: March for orchestra in D major, K290

Zefiro (early music ensemble)
Alfredo Bernardini

Mozart: Divertimento No. 7 in D major K205.

Zefiro (early music ensemble)
Alfredo Bernardini

Mozart: Divertimento No. 11 in D major, K251

Zefiro (early music ensemble)
Alfredo Bernardini

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Wind ensembles saw an interesting development throughout the eighteenth century, both in their scoring and in their function, from musique de table to Harmonie. Mozart, who appreciated all the wind instruments of his time and gave them important roles in his orchestral and chamber music, including writing solo concertos for most of them, also composed important works for wind ensembles. His early divertimenti for six wind instruments were written in Salzburg between 1775 and 1777, mostly to entertain at outdoor banquets. The two serenades for wind octet K375 and K388/384a, composed in Vienna in 1781 and 1782 respectively, coincide with the foundation of the Kaiserliche Königliche Harmonie by Joseph II of Austria, which originated a widespread trend in the Empire and elsewhere. The function of such ensembles was mainly that of playing arrangements of famous opera tunes in the palace. The most sublime example of Harmoniemusik, however, is to be found in the Serenade K361/370a, the so called Gran Partita , written between 1781 and 1784: this is the most expansive of Mozart's works for wind in duration and scoring.Award-winning ensemble ZEFIRO brings together the world's leading specialists in performance on historical wind instruments and has gained a reputation in its thirty years of activity for lively, eloquent and expressive renderings of Mozart's music. This six-CD set assembles for the first time its complete Mozart recordings, some of which are now considered as milestones in the discography.

The Mozart Collection

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