You'd have to be mad for Mozart's A major Violin Concerto to want to hear this two-disc set coupling four different recordings of the work. But if you are mad for the A major Concerto -- and it's such an ineffably delightful slip of a thing that you'd have to have a heart of iron and ears of tin not to be mad for it -- it will be a one-way ticket to paradise. Joining together performances recorded at the Salzburg Festival between 1956 and 1973 by Arthur Grumiaux, Erica Morini, Nathan Milstein, and Wolfgang Schneiderhan was ...
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You'd have to be mad for Mozart's A major Violin Concerto to want to hear this two-disc set coupling four different recordings of the work. But if you are mad for the A major Concerto -- and it's such an ineffably delightful slip of a thing that you'd have to have a heart of iron and ears of tin not to be mad for it -- it will be a one-way ticket to paradise. Joining together performances recorded at the Salzburg Festival between 1956 and 1973 by Arthur Grumiaux, Erica Morini, Nathan Milstein, and Wolfgang Schneiderhan was an inspired idea. The work is so endlessly charming and each performance is so totally unique, one can listen straight through both discs and then go back to listen to all the Adagios again, smiling all the time.To give an idea of what's on these discs, here's a brief rundown of the players and their performances. Arthur Grumiaux plays with a sweet tone, a clean vibrato, an elegant technique, and a huge range of colors, and his performance with Bernhard Paumgartner leading the...
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