Mozart - Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5 - DG Archiv: 4777371 - 2 CDs or download

Complete technical fluidity, at the service of a lively musical imagination, backed up by some superbly shaped orchestral playing under Abbado. — BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 14th Jul 2008
Catalogue No: 4777371
Label: DG Archiv
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franco Gulli: Violin Concerto No.1 In B Flat, K.207

Work length19:06

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Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Franco Gulli (cadenzor)
Orchestra Mozart
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 2007-11-16
Recording Venue: Salone Bolognini, Bologna

1. Allegro moderato

Track length6:54

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2. Adagio

Track length7:17

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3. Presto

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franco Gulli: Violin Concerto No.2 In D, K.211

Work length17:30

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Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Franco Gulli (cadenzor)
Orchestra Mozart
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 2007-11-16
Recording Venue: Salone Bolognini, Bologna

1. Allegro moderato

Track length7:32

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2. Andante

Track length6:06

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3. Rondeau (Allegro)

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franco Gulli: Violin Concerto No.3 In G, K.216

Work length20:28

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Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Franco Gulli (cadenzor)
Orchestra Mozart
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 2007-11-16
Recording Venue: Salone Bolognini, Bologna

1. Allegro

Track length8:31

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2. Adagio

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3. Rondo (Allegro)

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franco Gulli: Violin Concerto No.4 In D, K.218

Work length19:33

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Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Franco Gulli (cadenzor), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (cadenzor)
Orchestra Mozart
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 2007-11-16
Recording Venue: Salone Bolognini, Bologna

1. Allegro

Track length7:52

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2. Andante cantabile

Track length5:12

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3. Rondeau (Andante grazioso - Allegro ma non troppo)

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franco Gulli: Violin Concerto No.5 In A, K.219

Work length24:12

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Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Franco Gulli (cadenzor)
Orchestra Mozart
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 2007-11-16
Recording Venue: Salone Bolognini, Bologna

1. Allegro aperto

Track length8:45

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2. Adagio

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3. Rondeau (Tempo di minuetto)

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Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola & Orchestra in E flat major, K364

Work length27:30

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Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Danusha Waskiewicz (viola), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (cadenzor)
Orchestra Mozart
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 2007-11-16
Recording Venue: Salone Bolognini, Bologna

1. Allegro maestoso

Track length12:22

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2. Andante

Track length9:07

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3. Presto

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The release is scheduled to coincide with Abbado’s 75th birthday in June 2008

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Proms 2008

Complete technical fluidity, at the service of a lively musical imagination, backed up by some superbly shaped orchestral playing under Abbado.

2010

Virtuoso 'violinism' and energising direction notwithstanding, neither Giuliano Carmignola nor Claudio Abbado seems inspired by the B flat Concerto, K207. Nor does slick dispatch do much for the first movement of the D major, K211; but this is not the shape of things to come.
Carmignola steps away from neutrality in the succeeding Andante. The music breathes a life of its own as he ardently inflects its phrases to shape the tension and relaxation of his line which – as elsewhere – he also embellishes. And pauses are decorated with lead-ins. Here is personal involvement that from now on is present in full flower.
It's a flowering for Abbado too, as he summons a passionate advocacy that takes in the implications of key and time signatures on atmosphere and pacing, uses dynamic markings and intuitive accents to keep rhythm aloft, adjusts the timbres of the wind instruments (oboes are vivid or subdued, horns play in alto or basso) to suit the colouration he requires, and aerates the orchestral fabric for maximum clarity. Conducting and interpretation are in the realms of greatness – and no mistake.
In the solo concertos, Carmignola is recorded with varying but small changes of volume. His positioning is steadier in the Sinfonia concertante; and so is his placement with the artistic, if slightly reticent, Danusha Waskiewicz. Nevertheless, their skilled dovetailing and intelligent use of tone colour speak of symbiosis. Abbado remains primus inter pares, watchful, supportive and fortifying. Pity the sound isn't always clear and detailed. Superlative music making deserves consistently superlative recording.

September 2008

Mozart-conducting and interpretation are in the realms of greatness.

2011 edition

These recordings were made at Bologna in 2007 and must be ranked among the finest in this repertoire, whether on period or modern instruments. Impeccable recording.

20th July 2008

In Carmignola, [Abbado] has an ideal soloist, prepared to rethink these delightful works, as well as the great Sinfonia Concertante, with violin and viola solos in the light of scholarly research and reappraisal.
The results are little short of revelatory, especially in the concertos’ and Sinfonia’s fast outer movements. They scamper along at Carmignola’s vivacious tempi and provoke dazzling feats of virtuosity from the orchestral accompaniments, which sometimes sound polite. The soloist’s tone is bright and sweet (but never saccharine), and Abbado’s Bolognese band is already clearly a crack ensemble — the principal viola, Danusha Waskiewicz, brings lustrous tone and bravura to the Sinfonia’s second solo part, and it is a long time since I have heard such exhilarating, devil-may-care playing in the famous “Turkish” Rondo of the A major concerto. A marvellous set.

18th July 2008

[The conducting is] almost miraculous, with its exuberant, lively tempi, perfectly balanced lighter-than-air textures, and exquisite attention to the smallest details of phrasing and articulation. The sense of the players listening as intently to each other as they do to following Abbado's directions is obvious in every bar... There are a few moments in the violin concertos, and especially in the Sinfonia Concertante, when the music could benefit from a little more room to breathe, though Abbado and his soloists do show that the slow movement of the Sinfonia doesn't need to be taken as an indulgent adagio to weave its magical spell.

19th July 2008

Carmignola, renowned for his Baroque, is a clean interpreter of Mozart's violin concertos, his sweet-sounding strings flitting in well-matched dialogue with the attentive period detailing of Abbado's young ensemble.

Mozart - Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5

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