Mozart: Serenades Volume 1

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The Cologne Academy’s period instruments impart a welcome, grainier texture than some more sumptuously upholstered modern-instrument recordings…undemanding, yes, but an hour and a quarter of... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2017 More…

Release Date: 31st Mar 2017
Catalogue No: BIS2244
Label: BIS
Length: 74 minutes

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Mozart: March in D major, K335 No. 1

Work length4:17

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Orchester der Kölner Akademie
Michael Alexander Willens
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Cologne, Germany

Mozart: Serenade No. 9 in D major, K320 'Posthorn'

Work length41:08

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Orchester der Kölner Akademie
Michael Alexander Willens
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Cologne, Germany

I. Adagio maestoso - Allegro con spirito

Track length8:18

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II. Menuetto. Allegretto

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III. Concertante. Andante grazioso

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IV. Rondeau. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length5:36

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V. Andantino

Track length7:39

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VI. Menuetto

Track length4:33

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VII. Finale. Presto

Track length4:13

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Mozart: March in D major, K335 No. 2

Work length4:25

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Orchester der Kölner Akademie
Michael Alexander Willens
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Cologne, Germany

Excerpt, Mozart: Serenade No. 13 in G major, K525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik'

Work length8:21

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Orchester der Kölner Akademie
Michael Alexander Willens
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Cologne, Germany

I. Allegro

Track length8:21

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Mozart: String Quartet No. 1 in G major, K80

Work length2:52

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Orchester der Kölner Akademie
Michael Alexander Willens
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Cologne, Germany

III. Menuetto

Track length2:52

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Excerpt, Mozart: Serenade No. 13 in G major, K525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik'

Work length13:32

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Orchester der Kölner Akademie
Michael Alexander Willens
Recorded: December 2015
Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Cologne, Germany

II. Romanze

Track length4:55

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III. Menuetto

Track length2:21

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IV. Rondo. Allegro

Track length6:16

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Die Kölner Akademie and Michael Willens have previously recorded Mozart’s complete piano concertos with Ronald Brautigam, earning praise for their fresh and colourful contributions to the series. The team now releases the first of four projected discs with further Mozart scores, beginning with two of the composer’s best-loved serenades. Serenades were a characteristic feature of Salzburg musical life: opening with a march and continuing with as many as eight or nine separate movements on an orchestral scale, such works will have been ringing in Mozart’s ears from childhood. Thirteen serenades of varying scope and scorings are included in Mozart’s catalogue of works, and of these the well-known ‘Posthorn Serenade’ is the ninth. It is also the last serenade that Mozart composed before leaving Salzburg for Vienna. The nickname stems from Mozart’s inclusion of a solo for post horn (‘cornodi posta’) in one of the movements, but the wind instruments play an important role throughout the serenade, with extended solos for flute and oboe.

In comparison, Eine kleine Nachtmusik – the last serenade Mozart wrote – is for strings only. It is also shorter than many of the other serenades, and was probably intended for a more intimate occasion. Mozart’s own thematic catalogue lists it as having five movements, but as the first minuet and trio (preceding the slow movement) have been lost, only four are typically performed today. In this recording a minuet from Mozart’s very first string quartet in G major, K. 80, is incorporated by way of completion of the five-movement arch.

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May 2017

The Cologne Academy’s period instruments impart a welcome, grainier texture than some more sumptuously upholstered modern-instrument recordings…undemanding, yes, but an hour and a quarter of pleasurable music in fine performances

10th April 2017

One cannot fault the excellent players of Die Kölner Akademie who demonstrate once again that they are amongst the best groups in the world of period performance.

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