Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The String Quintets / Quartetto Stradivari, Karine Lethiec (viola) / Dynamic 3x Audio CD 2007 / CDS 495/1-3

UPC 8007144604950

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works of virtually every genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. Mozart is widely regarded as among the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with his music admired for its "melodic beauty, its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture".

Tracklist:

CD 1

Quintet in B flat Major K 174   26:08

1.  Allegro moderato   8:39

2.  Adagio   7:22

3.   Menuetto ma allegretto   3:59

4.  Allegro   6:05

Quintet in D Major K 593   32:15

5.  Larghetto-Allegro   9:36

6.  Adagio   6:32

7.  Menuetto-Allegretto   5:04

8.  Allegro (''Erste Fassung'')   5:28

9.  Allegro (''Zweite Fassung'')   5:29

CD 2

Quintet in C Major K 515   34:30

1.  Allegro   13:00

2.  Menuetto-Allegretto   5:33

3.  Andante   8:37

4.  Allegro   7:20

Quintet in G Minor K 516   33:46

5.  Allegro   11:10

6.  Menuetto-Allegretto   5:09

7.  Adagio ma non troppo   7:34

8.  Adagio-Allegro   9:53

CD 3 

Quintet in C minor K 406   23:29

1.  Allegro   8:16

2.  Andante   4:09

3.  Menuetto in canone   4:25

4.  Allegro   6:39

Quintet in E flat Major K 614

5.  Allegro di molto   7:51

6.  Andante   8:36

7.  Menuetto-Allegretto   4:22

8.  Allegro   5:39

• Violins - Mariana Sirbu, Cristina Dancila
• Viola - Massimo Paris, Karine Lethiec
• Cello - Mihai Dancila