Mozart: Serenata notturna, 3 Divertimenti & Eine kleine Nachtmusik

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Although playing modern instruments, the musicians take full account of 18th century performance practices, shaping and colouring phrases by bow pressure rather than sustaining them with vibrato.... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Sep 2017
Catalogue No: BIS2326
Label: BIS
Length: 64 minutes

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Mozart: Adagio & Fugue in C minor for Strings, K546

Work length6:56

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Camerata Nordica
Terje Tønnesen
Recorded: January 2015
Recording Venue: Algutsrum kyrka, Öland, Sweden

Adagio

Track length3:12

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Fugue. Allegro

Track length3:44

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

Work length16:22

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Camerata Nordica
Terje Tønnesen
Recorded: January 2015
Recording Venue: Algutsrum kyrka, Öland, Sweden

I. Allegro

Track length5:28

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II. Romanze. Andante

Track length4:52

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III. Minuetto. Allegretto

Track length2:11

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IV. Rondo. Allegro

Track length3:51

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Mozart: Serenade No. 6 in D major, K239 'Serenata Notturna'

Work length10:51

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Camerata Nordica
Terje Tønnesen
Recorded: January 2016
Recording Venue: Algutsrum kyrka, Öland, Sweden

I. Marcia. Maestoso

Track length3:02

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II. Minuetto

Track length3:27

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III. Rondo. Allegretto

Track length4:22

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Mozart: Divertimento in D major, K136

Work length11:34

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Camerata Nordica
Terje Tønnesen
Recorded: January 2015
Recording Venue: Algutsrum kyrka, Öland, Sweden

I. Allegro

Track length3:50

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II. Andante

Track length5:09

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III. Presto

Track length2:35

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Mozart: Divertimento in B flat major, K137

Work length9:15

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Camerata Nordica
Terje Tønnesen
Recorded: January 2015
Recording Venue: Algutsrum kyrka, Öland, Sweden

I. Andante

Track length4:59

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II. Allegro di molto

Track length2:12

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III. Allegro assai

Track length2:04

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Mozart: Divertimento in F major, K138

Work length9:55

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Camerata Nordica
Terje Tønnesen
Recorded: January 2015
Recording Venue: Algutsrum kyrka, Öland, Sweden

I. Allegro

Track length3:35

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II. Andante

Track length3:58

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III. Presto

Track length2:22

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Up to and including Mozart, one important task for every composer not employed by the Church was to entertain. Much of Mozart’s best-loved music consists of occasional works intended for receptions and parties, balls and banquets, ceremonies and celebrations. These pieces are known to us under a number of different names: serenades, divertimenti, Nachtmusik and notturni are just some examples.

In so far as these are genres, the distinctions between them are often blurred and many of them seem to have been used more or less interchangeably. But when the music is so fresh and immediate, labelling it becomes less important. In 1778, Leopold Mozart – who never missed an opportunity to impart his wisdom – wrote to his son describing what characterizes a successful piece: ‘Short, easy and popular… written in a natural, flowing and easy style – and at the same time bearing the marks of sound composition.’

That this recipe was something Wolfgang had already mastered six years earlier becomes obvious when one listens to any of the three Divertimentos recorded here, and it’s equally clear that he hadn’t forgotten it when he composed Eine kleine Nachtmusik ten years later. What Leopold doesn’t mention is playfulness, another quality that Mozart had in spades, and which Terje Tønnesen and his Camerata Nordica explore in their performances, allowing a plaintive Swedish nyckelharpa (‘keyed fiddle’) to be heard in the trio section in Eine kleine Nachtmusik and giving the timpanist an opportunity to rock the party in the closing rondo of Serenata notturna.

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February 2018

Although playing modern instruments, the musicians take full account of 18th century performance practices, shaping and colouring phrases by bow pressure rather than sustaining them with vibrato. Attack and articulation are crisply defined and differentiated.

Mozart: Serenata notturna, 3 Divertimenti & Eine kleine Nachtmusik

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