Mozart, Beethoven: Quintets for Piano & Winds

Professional chamber wind ensembles are common nowadays, but in Mozart's and Beethoven's time, such groups as these composers required were most often ad hoc gatherings of friends or local musicians. Even as late as 1953, when pianist Rudolf Serkin recorded Mozart's Quintet, K. 452, and Beethoven's Quintet, Op. 16, for Columbia, he had to call on wind players from the Philadelphia Orchestra to fill the oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn parts. As a result of this, or perhaps because of insufficient preparation, there are ... Read More

Professional chamber wind ensembles are common nowadays, but in Mozart's and Beethoven's time, such groups as these composers required were most often ad hoc gatherings of friends or local musicians. Even as late as 1953, when pianist Rudolf Serkin recorded Mozart's Quintet, K. 452, and Beethoven's Quintet, Op. 16, for Columbia, he had to call on wind players from the Philadelphia Orchestra to fill the oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn parts. As a result of this, or perhaps because of insufficient preparation, there are problems of balance and blending in these recordings that practiced wind groups would avoid, yet somehow went unnoticed by Serkin and company. On the whole, John de Lancie's oboe and Sol Schoenbach's bassoon sound even and controlled, well-matched to Serkin's restrained playing; but Anthony Gigliotti's hooting clarinet and Mason Jones' robust horn stray into louder dynamics, and fat bulges in the ensemble's textures frequently occur. Due to the limitations of the mono reproduction, the... Read Less

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