Here's a collection of Mozart's music for flute quartet, performed on authentic instruments by flutist Claire Guimond, who divides her time between Montreal and London, and England's Trio Sonnerie. The program includes a piece that's usually left off of such collections: the Flute Quartet in A major, K. 298, which is one of Mozart's purely humorous works. Some might call it desperately immature, with its finale designation of "Rondieaoux (Allegretto grazioso, ma non troppo presto, adagio, cosė-cosė con molto garbo ed ...
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Here's a collection of Mozart's music for flute quartet, performed on authentic instruments by flutist Claire Guimond, who divides her time between Montreal and London, and England's Trio Sonnerie. The program includes a piece that's usually left off of such collections: the Flute Quartet in A major, K. 298, which is one of Mozart's purely humorous works. Some might call it desperately immature, with its finale designation of "Rondieaoux (Allegretto grazioso, ma non troppo presto, adagio, cosė-cosė con molto garbo ed espressione)"; others might call it delightful. This is a work in three movements, incidentally; the track number, 10, for the last movement is omitted from the track list. The quartet doesn't quite get the broad humor of this quartet, which in places resembles A Musical Joke, K. 522: it satirizes hapless composers more than just the common run of musicians. The rest of the program, however, is more than pleasant. The booklet recites the familiar story of Mozart's having put off composing...
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