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Led with flair and imagination by Michael Collins, London Winds give a vital, refined performanceof the Gran Partita, exceptionally transparent in texture and full of felicitous detail: the wonderfully... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 2nd Oct 2006
Catalogue No: ONYX4012
Label: Onyx
Length: 72 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

January 2007

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

Work length48:46

$8.50

$11.90

London Winds
Michael Collins

Largo - Molto allegro

Track length9:07

$1.50

$2.10

Menuetto - Trio - Trio II

Track length9:33

$1.50

$2.10

Adagio

Track length5:08

$1.00

$1.40

Menuetto - Allegretto - Trio - Trio II

Track length4:41

$1.00

$1.40

Romanze: Adagio - Allegretto - Adagio

Track length6:56

$1.00

$1.40

Thema mit 6 Variationen - Andante

Track length9:57

$1.50

$2.10

Finale - Molto allegro

Track length3:24

$1.00

$1.40

Mozart: Mozart - Serenade K388 "Nacht Musique"

Work length23:40

$4.50

$6.30

London Winds
Michael Collins

Allegro

Track length8:29

$1.50

$2.10

Andante

Track length4:06

$1.00

$1.40

Menuetto in canone

Track length4:27

$1.00

$1.40

Allegro

Track length6:38

$1.00

$1.40

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"It seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God,” reminisces Mozart's rival Salieri over the sublime strains of the Romanza from the 'Gran Partita' in the film of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus.

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2010

Led with flair and imagination by Michael Collins, London Winds give a vital, refined performanceof the Gran Partita, exceptionally transparent in texture and full of felicitous detail: the wonderfully veiled pianissimo coda of the Romanze fifth movement, for instance; or the eloquently phrased oboe cantilena against the dulcet murmurings of clarinets and basset horns in the adagio variation.
Outer movements are crisp and athletic, with an easy, quick-witted sense of instrumental interplay; and the two minuets are sharply contrasted, the first done as a stately menuetto galante, its G minor Trio more elegiac than agitated, the second as a perky Ländler. Some may raise an eyebrow at the use of contrabassoon instead of Mozart's prescribed double bass (contrabassoons had notoriously unreliable plumbing in the 1780s). But there are gains in overall blend, even if you might miss the double bass's pizzicato twangs in the second minuet's beery Trio. The only reservation comes with the Adagio third movement, the work's emotional core, where the pulsing accompaniment impinges too prominently on the soaring exchanges of oboe, clarinet and basset horn.
As a fill-up London Winds offer that most undiverting of serenades, K388, in a fine performance, amply powerful and urgent but notable for its poetry and inwardness, whether in the sorrowful, syncopated variant of the 'second subject' in the opening Allegro's recapitulation, or the Trio's exquisite 'mirror canon', celestially floated here by oboes and bassoons.

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