Oboe Quartet in F

Kuijken String Quartet
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A/Horn Quintet in E-flat/Oboe Quartet in F
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
1. Allegro
2. Larghetto
3. Menuetto
4. Allegretto Con Variazioni
5. Allegro
6. Andante
7. Rondo: Allegro
8. Allegro
9. Adagio
10. Rondo: Allegro

CD Details

All Artists: Kuijken String Quartet
Title: Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A/Horn Quintet in E-flat/Oboe Quartet in F
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Challenge Classics
Original Release Date: 1/1/2005
Re-Release Date: 10/11/2005
Album Type: Hybrid SACD - DSD, Import
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 608917214529

Synopsis

Album Description

The Kuijken String Quartet, founded in 1986, is renowned for its important contribution to authentic playing of stringed instruments, especially in works of Haydn and Mozart. They have won many awards and performed on numerous acclaimed recordings. They have frequently toured Europe and North America. This hybrid multichannel recording plays on all SACD and CD players, offering three of Mozart?s most beloved chamber works for strings and wind instruments.

CD Reviews

Horrible sound, strong performance

Eric Falardeau | Montreal, Quebec Canada | 11/21/2007

(2 out of 5 stars)

"This is the worst sounding SACD I have ever heard (I own 120 of them) and one of worst records of all time. The sound greatly improves for the oboe quartet, but the clarinet quintet is plain painful to hear and the horn quintet is just wrong (the horn sounds like if it was in another room).

The clarinet quintet sounds like a partially demagnetized tape and the clarinettist seems to think that we enjoy more is clapping and breathing than we do Mozart. Truly unpleasant the only SACD I have not heard in its entirety (I stopped after 2 movements of the clarinet quintet and after one movement of the horn quintet, while I enjoyed the whole oboe quartet; the latter is the reason why I give 2 stars instead of just 1).

The release of this product is unacceptable. Too bad because I usually like Kujiken quartet. Well, my only SACD that hit the bottom of a garbage bin."