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Mozart wrote Serenade
No.10 in B-flat in the early1780s in the heydays of
his creative activities. It is notable for its professional maturity,
musical freshness and almost symphonic scale. He extended a very
popular at the time ensemble of the wind instruments, octet, to
thirteen instruments.
Actually the group was transformed in a small orchestra. It consisted
of two oboes, two clarinets, two bassethorns, four horns, two bassoons,
and a double bass. Such a group made it possible for Mozart to compose
a work, by the words of a contemporary, "glorious and grand,
excellent and sublime".
Serenade "Gran Partita" B dur, op.10, K. 361
Soloists of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Recorded in 1985
1 Largo. Allegro molto 10.08
2 Menuetto 8.48
3 . Adagio 6.36
4 Menuetto. Allegretto 4.51
5 Romanze. Adagio 6.24
6 Thema mit Variationen. Andante 10.50
7 Rondo. Allegro molto 3.37
Total time: 51.17
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