Search - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Craft, Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet :: Mozart: Serenade No. 10 "Gran Partita"; Divertimenti K.213 & K.270

RARE BASSOONISTS!! Sol Schoenbach AND Milan Turkovic!!

02/10/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It's hard to find any Sol Schoenbach recordings anymore. All of the ensembles are great!! I highly recommend this cd to any wind player. Many highly excellent musicians, all on one cd. It is a very relaxing cd, also."

This time, price reflects quality

Juan Valdez | Houston, TX | 01/19/2003

(1 out of 5 stars)

"a bland recording, not one of essential classics' essential CDs...most of the movements are also truncated--missing repeats, variations, etc...and if you like your recordings to have a spacey sound, this recording sounds like they were in a little box...save your money"

Mozart's more sublime compositions not well represented

Alan Lekan | Boulder, CO | 01/28/2005

(2 out of 5 stars)

"If you want to quickly sort out the best performances/ recordings for this masterpiece, all one needs to do is compare the deeply moving third movement of the Gran Partita (adagio) for this CD versus Marriner's or Mackerras's recordings. The intrepretation of that movement on this CD seems to totally miss the gentle, soaring sentiment Mozart wanted to produce with his beloved woodwinds. This is the moving composition early in the movie Amadeus which the eldery Salieri so eloquently describes its sublimitity and seeming transcendence. Instead in this recording here, the pace and character seem more like a march than a meditative movement touching upon heavenly inspirations. There is usually a reason for a low priced CD's (but not always like in the case of Naxos) and this one fits that model. The Marriner ASMF recording is listed as a Gramophone "recommended recording" for the Serenade K361 and is one that captures well the sublime emotion as does the performance under Sir Charles Mackerras. These are both much better choices and do the work its justice."