Mozart Chamber Music for Winds and Strings Boston Symphony Chamber Players

• Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581:
• 1 Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581: I. Allegro 09:43
• 2 Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581: II. Larghetto 06:45
• 3 Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581: III. Menuetto 07:09
• 4 Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581: IV. Allegretto con variazioni 09:54
• Horn Quintet in E Flat Major, K. 407:
• 5 Horn Quintet in E Flat Major, K. 407: I. Allegro 06:14
• 6 Horn Quintet in E Flat Major, K. 407: II. Andante 06:27
• 7 Horn Quintet in E Flat Major, K. 407: III. Rondo - Allegro 03:46
• Oboe Quartet in F Major, K. 370/ 368b:
• 8 Oboe Quartet in F Major, K. 370/ 368b: I. Allegro 07:03
• 9 Oboe Quartet in F Major, K. 370/ 368b: II. Adagio 02:55
• 10 Oboe Quartet in F Major, K. 370/ 368b: III. Rondeau - Allegro 04:32
• Flute Quartet in A Major, K. 298:
• 11 Flute Quartet in A Major, K. 298: I. Theme (Andante) and Variations 06:28
• 12 Flute Quartet in A Major, K. 298: II. Menuetto 02:25
• 13 Flute Quartet in A Major, K. 298: III. Rondeau - Allegretto grazioso 03:10
• Total Runtime 01:16:31

Info for Mozart Chamber Music for Winds and Strings

BSO principal players bring their skill and musicianship as individual performers together for this masterful set of Mozart chamber music. Rich sonorous strings and clear full winds fill this recording with expressive weight and gorgeous sound. This is passionate and intelligent playing by some of the world's best.

"The main course here is the famous quintet for clarinet and string quartet. It is one of the world's great treasures and played here by musicians who know how to do it. They are all members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, moonlighting as chamber players, and clarinetist William Hudgins plays with a smooth, beautiful tone that the more famous buzzy clarinet of Richard Stoltzman can only dream of. The players are listening to each other and responding as a unit, breathing and phrasing with emotional unity. Second place goes to the seldom-played quintet for horn, violin, two violas and cello. James Sommerville's horn is as creamy as Hudgins' clarinet, and Mozart, of course, never wrote a tune that wasn't memorable. Filling out the disc are quartets for oboe and strings and for flute and strings. A lot of Wolfgang, and a treat for human ears." (Richard Nilsen, The Arizona Republic)

Boston Symphony Chamber Players

Boston Symphony Chamber Players
One of the world's most distinguished chamber music ensembles sponsored by a major symphony orchestra and made up of principal players from that orchestra, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players include first-chair string and wind players from the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Founded in 1964 during Erich Leinsdorf's tenure as BSO music director, the Chamber Players can perform virtually any work within the vast chamber music literature, expanding their range of repertoire by calling upon other BSO members or enlisting the services of such distinguished artists as pianists Leif Ove Andsnes, Emanuel Ax, and André Previn. The Chamber Players' activities include an annual four-concert series in Boston's Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory, regular appearances at Tanglewood, and a busy touring schedule. In addition to their appearances throughout the United States, they have performed in Europe, Japan, South America, and the Soviet Union. In September 2008, sponsored by Cunard® Line, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players performed on the Queen Mary 2's transatlantic crossing from New York to Southampton, England. The Boston Symphony Chamber Players celebrated their 50th Anniversary Season in 2013-14. To mark that milestone anniversary, the Boston Symphony Orchestra commissioned new works for the Chamber Players from Gunther Schuller, Yehudi Wyner, Sebastian Currier, Kati Agócs, and Hannah Lash, and reissued as downloads on BSO Classics the historic recordings made by the ensemble's original membership for RCA between 1964 and 1968. Their most recent recordings, on BSO Classics, include an album of Mozart chamber music for winds and strings; a disc of chamber music by American composers William Bolcom, Lukas Foss, Michael Gandolfi, and Osvaldo Golijov; and "Profanes et Sacrées," a Grammy-nominated disc of 20th-century French chamber music by Ravel, Debussy, Tomasi, Françaix, and Dutilleux.

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