Mozart: Complete Flute Quartets
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Artists: Andrea Manco (flute),Andrea Pecolo (violin), Joël Impérial (viola), Gianluca Muzzolon (cello)
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During the late 18th century, compositions for string trio with a wind instrument were extremely popular in amateur circles; and in keeping with this highly fashionable trend, Mozart composed four quartets for flute and strings while on a tour of France and Germany with his mother. The 22-year-old composer had lately made the acquaintance of a solo flautist, Johann Baptist Wendling, who was in contact with a rich flute-playing patron. A handsome fee was offered for some concertos and quartets – more than Mozart’s annual salary as a court musician back at home in Salzburg – and so he set to work, completing the first quartet, K385, on Christmas Day 1777.
The other works here may have been composed later – perhaps Mozart ran out of enthusiasm for the project – but they all count as examples of refined chamber music conceived for skilled amateur players and domestic consumption, While hardly as complex a showcase of Mozart’s compositional skills as the string quartets he dedicated to Haydn, all four quartets abounding in gentle wit and good humour, and written not as mini-concertos for flute and string trio but as chamber music for equal partners. Every now and then Mozart touches the sublime, as so often he could, such as the slow variation movement of K285b, which recalls the similar movement in the ‘Gran Partita’ wind serenade in its weightless gravity of expression.
This new recording of the quartets offers a substantial bonus, in the shape of the Oboe Quartet K370 arranged for the ensemble at hand. The performances are led by the Italian flautist Andrea Manco, who in 2003, at just 20 years old, became principal flute of the Teatro Regio orchestra in Turin under the directorship of Gianandrea Noseda.
Since then he has played principal flute for many fine orchestras in Europe and farther afield, and in 2014 he took a solo flute post at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He is joined here by a trio of equally experienced, Itallian-based string players. This album marks his debut on Brilliant Classics.
Track list:
00:00:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Quartet in D Major, K. 285: I. Allegro
00:06:51 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Quartet in D Major, K. 285: II. Adagio
00:09:26 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Quartet in D Major, K. 285: III. Rondeau
00:14:01 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Quartet in G Major, K. 285a: I. Andante
00:19:36 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Quartet in G Major, K. 285a: II. Tempo di minuetto
00:22:06 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F Major, K. 370: I. Allegro
00:28:48 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F Major, K. 370: II. Adagio
00:32:05 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F Major, K. 370: III. Rondeau. Allegro
00:36:21 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Quartet in C Major, K. 285b: I. Allegro
00:42:12 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Quartet in C Major, K. 285b: II. Andantino. Tema con variazioni
00:52:43 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Quartet in A Major, K. 298: I. Andante. Tema con variazioni
00:58:46 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Quartet in A Major, K. 298: II. Minuetto – Trio
01:01:05 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Quartet in A Major, K. 298: III. Rondeau. Allegretto grazioso
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