{"product_id":"mozart-serenades-dart-philomusic-of-london-keiberth-bamberg-symphony","title":"MOZART: Serenades - Dart, Philomusic of London, Keiberth, Bamberg Symphony","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/ABOUT_THIS_RECORDING_W._WORLD_2_e41329ea-b9a9-4e85-9c74-e4ca06232094_480x480.png?v=1597936917\" alt=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/ABOUT_THIS_RECORDING_W._WORLD_2_e41329ea-b9a9-4e85-9c74-e4ca06232094_480x480.png?v=1597936917\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe two albums reissued here exemplify the postwar revolution of Classical-era performance styles. Having begun to make records in 1938, the L’Oiseau-Lyre label worked in the vanguard of the period-performance movement, yet in 1951 the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and its long-time principal conductor Joseph Keilberth were engaged to record the Symphony KV 201 and the two sets of German Dances. They did so in Paris, the day after giving a concert in the Salle Pleyel to open a tour of France, Spain and Portugal. The sessions prompted a laconic diary reflection from Keilberth – ‘How hard it is to stick to a really secure 3\/4 pulse’ – but the authors of The Record Guide observed an unexpected lightness of touch about the results.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eL’Oiseau-Lyre’s founder Louise Dyer continued, however, to engage artists who were scholars as much as musicians – none more eminent than Thurston Dart, who had produced a scholarly edition of Couperin’s keyboard works on which much of the label’s reputation was founded, and who directed his own ensembles such as the Philomusica of London with a sure and lively touch.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis recording of Eine kleine Nachtmusik was the first – and still one of the only – to insert a replacement for the work’s missing first minuet: in this case, Dart’s own orchestration of a movement from a piano sonata, following a suggestion made by Alfred Einstein. It was also the first album of Mozart’s orchestral music where the instrumentalists used ‘period’ bows, lighter and differently balanced, lending a natural shapeliness to the phrases.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/REVIEWS_CS_WORLD_7169b53a-dbe6-4c81-930b-be7f7575534e_480x480.png?v=1597936904\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Joseph Keilberth, one of our most serious Wagnerians, appears here (though not on his other records) as a Mozartian stylist of distinction. He gets his orchestra to play most beautifully; and the recording … is very clean and clear, and tonally delightful.” The Record Guide (1955)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The result of these exercises is to remove the spuriously symphonic flesh that had over the years overspread this delightful little work and to make it what Mozart called it – ‘a delightful night music’ … The important thing is that this performance is almost certainly a great deal nearer to what Mozart himself had in mind than any of the other recorded versions.” Gramophone, April 1955 (Dart)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/TRACK_LISTING_WITH_WORLD_1_4b3088c9-df3c-47ba-bf41-5b7e5d1a8144_480x480.png?v=1597936873\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1–5 Serenade in G major, KV 525 ‘Eine kleine Nachtmusik’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6–8 Serenata notturna in D major, KV 239 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilomusica of London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThurston Dart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9–12 Symphony No. 29 in A major, KV 201 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13 Six German Dances, KV 509 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14 Six German Dances, KV 571 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBamberg Symphony Orchestra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Keilberth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFIRST CD RELEASE ON DECCA\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DECCA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32342065250391,"sku":"028948285297","price":19.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/products\/71Iov6zSbVL._SL1000.jpg?v=1599828488","url":"https:\/\/classicselectworld.com\/de-de\/products\/mozart-serenades-dart-philomusic-of-london-keiberth-bamberg-symphony","provider":"ClassicSelect World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}