Mozart: Concerto for clarinet in A; Concerto for bassoon in Bf

Editorial Reviews
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Alfred Prinz and Karl Bohm take leisurely tempos in the outer movements of Mozart's clarinet concerto, offering a ripe, warmly expressive reading of the piece. With the Vienna Philharmonic providing lovely support in the tuttis, this wonderful account still stands very near the top of the list of recorded Mozart. The remastering is excellent, and with three of Mozart's wind concertos packed onto it, all in first-rate performances, this mid-price disc is an outstanding value. --Ted Libbey

Tracks:

Concert For Clarinet And Orchestra In A Major: Allegro
Concert For Clarinet And Orchestra In A Major: Adagio
Concert For Clarinet And Orchestra In A Major: Rondo. Allegro
Concerto For Oboe And Orchestra In C Major: Allegro Aperto
Concerto For Oboe And Orchestra In C Major: Andante ma non troppo
Concerto For Oboe And Orchestra In C Major: Rondo. Allegretto
Concert For Bassoon And Orchestra In B Flat Major: Allegro
Concert For Bassoon And Orchestra In B Flat Major: Andante ma Adagio
Concert For Bassoon And Orchestra In B Flat Major: Rondo. Tempo di Menuetto

Amazon.com

Alfred Prinz and Karl Bohm take leisurely tempos in the outer movements of Mozart's clarinet concerto, offering a ripe, warmly expressive reading of the piece. With the Vienna Philharmonic providing lovely support in the tuttis, this wonderful account still stands very near the top of the list of recorded Mozart. The remastering is excellent, and with three of Mozart's wind concertos packed onto it, all in first-rate performances, this mid-price disc is an outstanding value. --Ted Libbey

Customer Reviews:

biased American oboist.......2003-11-29

I got this recording solely for the oboe concerto. It's interesting to note the differences in the sound quality on the Viennese style of oboe compared to the typical Loree...for me, the tone seems too spread and squawky. The interpretation isn't horrible, but it isn't great either. Overall, it just didn't excite me the way other recordings do. I still think it's good to have this recording just to get a comparison...the Mozart is an essential part of oboe rep. and the more interpretations you hear, the better.

Big-Boned Mozart.......2000-12-09

.... I'm biased toward performances such as these--warm, spacious, generous interpretations, with none of the thin, bloodless warblings that characterize period piece recordings. The soloists are in fine form, and then there's Karl Bohm, one of the greatest Mozart conductors ever, directing. The feature attraction is of course the clarinet concerto--the last concerto Mozart ever wrote--with its complex interweaving of melancholy and peaceful resignation. I bought this because the first recording I ever had of this concerto featured the clarinet soloist here--Alfred Prinz--on a Decca recording from the '60s. It's obviously a piece close to his heart, and he pours everything into it--especially the Adagio, which is one of the most beautiful Mozart ever composed. The other two concertos are perfectly agreeable, lighter pieces, more in keeping with the many Serenades and Divertimenti Mozart wrote in the late 1770s and early 1780s. The oboe concerto is very appealing, with a particularly ambitious Andante, but the oboe doesn't have nearly the range of the clarinet and there can't be any comparison to what the clarinet concerto achieves. Both the oboe and bassoon concertos are well worth having though, and they complement the profundities of the clarinet concerto nicely; just don't expect them up to the same heavenly standard.

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