This page lists all recordings of Ein musikalischer Spass K522 (A Musical Joke), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) on CD, SACD & download (MP3 & FLAC). Generally, more recent releases are listed first, but with priority given to those that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Mozart: Night MusicCatalogue CD 2011
“I don’t know of any [performances] that can match these for freshness, exhilaration and sheer fun.” Richard Wigmore, BBC Music Magazine, September 2003 “The range covered here is immense: at one extreme, A Musical Joke, Mozart’s (to us) surprisingly heavy-handed satire on bad composing; at the other, the harmonically audacious adagio he wrote to preface an earlier two-piano fugue. ..The Adagio and Fugue, played with splendid bite under Andrew Manze, is the highlight.” Sunday Times, 20th March 2011 *** “It is quite an achievement to make a performance of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik gripping and revelatory, but in his first recording as director of the English Concert, Andrew Manze manages it.” The Guardian | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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(Recorded on September 5 - 8, 2005 at the Castle of Cardona (Catalunya)) “Savall sets some brisk tempos, particularly for the slow movement of Eine kleine Nachtmusik, but they're convincing. …it's vivid playing from everyone, well defined in outline and responding imaginatively to the varied character of Mozart's music.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2006 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Kolisch Quartet (1929-1937)
John Barrows (horn), Domenico Caputo (horn), Hortense Monath (piano), Benar Heifetz (cello), Eugene Lehner (viola), Rudolf Kolisch (violin) Kolisch Quartet | |
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| |  | Mozart: Serenades and Divertimenti
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Sandor Frigyes | |
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| |  | Mozart - Music for Horn
Of the various wind instruments, it was the natural horn which proved to be the one most favoured by Mozart in his solo instrumental music. Four concertos and a plentiful quantity of chamber scores in which the horn plays the leading role testify to that.Without doubt all this derived from the friendship between the composer and Joseph Leutgeb, a virtuoso player almost 25 years his senior, and who, on a number of occasions, ended up as the target for well-meaning jokes and taunts from Mozart, as is explained in the booklet to this disc. Teunis van der Zwart is one of the world's leading specialists on his instrument today, and here he is joined by other members from the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century for the chamber music (the Quintet, A Musical Joke, the duos), and by the full orchestra conducted by Frans Brüggen for the Horn Concerto, KV477 and for an aria from Mitridate, re di Ponto, which also features the starry vocal talents of North American soprano Claron McFadden. In recordings made between 2006 and 2008 Brüggen and the musicians of his now legendary ensemble once more prove themselves to be on magnificent form in creating a further disc of reference. “Zwart is unafraid to explore the sonorous extremes offered by his natural horn, shaping melodic lines sensitively while also making the most of fruitier long notes (both low and high)...Some entertaining details in the orchestral accompaniment are nicely judged by Franz Brüggen” Gramophone Magazine, June 2010 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik & Ein Musikalischer Spass
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“Performances are again admirable.” Classic CD | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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