Mozart: March & Serenade "Haffner" Netherlands Chamber Orchestra & Gordan Nikolić

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): March in D Major, K. 249:
• 1 Mozart: March in D Major, K. 249: Maestoso 03:59
• Serenade in D Major, K. 250 "Haffner Serenade":
• 2 Mozart: Serenade in D Major, K. 250 "Haffner Serenade": I. Allegro maestoso - Allegro 07:46
• 3 Mozart: Serenade in D Major, K. 250 "Haffner Serenade": II. Andante 08:57
• 4 Mozart: Serenade in D Major, K. 250 "Haffner Serenade": III. Menuetto 03:38
• 5 Mozart: Serenade in D Major, K. 250 "Haffner Serenade": IV. Rondo. Allegro 07:50
• 6 Mozart: Serenade in D Major, K. 250 "Haffner Serenade": V. Menuetto galante 05:31
• 7 Mozart: Serenade in D Major, K. 250 "Haffner Serenade": VI. Andante 07:05
• 8 Mozart: Serenade in D Major, K. 250 "Haffner Serenade": VII. Menuetto 04:43
• 9 Mozart: Serenade in D Major, K. 250 "Haffner Serenade": VIII. Adagio - Allegro assai 07:50
• Total Runtime 57:19

Info for Mozart: March & Serenade "Haffner"

If you step out of Mozart's birthplace in Salzburg, turn right along Getreidegasse to the next corner and then turn right again, you will find yourself in Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse. It commemorates a wealthy Salzburg merchant and mayor whose son, also called Sigmund, ‘smuggled’ the name Haffner into the history of music and thus immortalised it. It was this Sigmund Haffner Junior who commissioned the ‘Haffner’ Serenade from Mozart in 1776. The eight-movement work - Mozart's most extensive and, with 13 instruments, his largest serenade - is in the best hands with the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, which recently attracted attention for its sensitive accompaniment in Julia Fischer's recordings of Mozart's violin concertos.

‘As violin soloist and conductor of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Gordan Nikolic aims for the strong point. Mozart's ‘Haffner Serenade’ succeeds in this way clearly and vividly. The coherence of the interpretation and the good sense of tempo and timing make this recording just as worth listening to as the excellent recording quality.’ (FonoForum)

"Maestro Gordan Nikolic leads a modern-instruments group, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, in a fairly straightforward rendition of the work. There is nothing wrong with this, but if he wants to sell discs, he might have striven for something more extraordinary. The "Haffner" Serenade, dedicated to the daughter of its patron, Siegmund Haffner, is a long piece, over fifty minutes, divided into nine movements. Despite its length, it is a composition of light music by Mozart's standards; yet you wouldn't quite know it by Nikolic's performance, which rather emphasizes the music's serious side." (classicalcandor.blogspot.com)

Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
Gordan Nikolitch, conductor

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