Serenades, Dances, Marches is the second volume in Philips' Complete Mozart Edition, available as part of a large box containing the whole of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's output and as a single item, as here. Though its 13 discs are the same as in the 1990 edition, its 2000 repackaging has a cleaner, more attractive design. Mozart's serenades, dances, and marches -- his "pop" music -- contains a decent amount of his most elegant music along with a healthy dose of material where it seems he is merely going through the motions. ...
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Serenades, Dances, Marches is the second volume in Philips' Complete Mozart Edition, available as part of a large box containing the whole of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's output and as a single item, as here. Though its 13 discs are the same as in the 1990 edition, its 2000 repackaging has a cleaner, more attractive design. Mozart's serenades, dances, and marches -- his "pop" music -- contains a decent amount of his most elegant music along with a healthy dose of material where it seems he is merely going through the motions. The ratio of quality versus quantity is roughly 2 to 3 in the Serenades and even lower in the other music. Mozart's orchestral serenades are heard here in recordings made in the 1980s by Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, whereas his orchestral dance music and marches are represented in recordings of 1960s vintage performed by Willi Boskovsky and the Wiener Mozart Ensemble. Marriner's recordings of this kind set a new standard for performances of Mozart as...
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