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  Amazon.com: Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante: Music: Marcel Bergman,Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Zubin Mehta,Chaim ...
Sinfonia concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E flat, K.364 - 1.
Sinfonia concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E flat, K.364 - 2.
Sinfonia concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E flat, K.364 - 3.
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 Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major for Violin and Viola, K. 364
The sinfonia concertante was the Classical period's successor to the Baroque concerto grosso, with more clearly soloistic roles for the specified instruments—in other words, a double, triple or quadruple concerto.
Shortly after his arrival in Paris, in April 1778, he composed a Concerto for Flute and harp (K. 299) and is thought to have composed the Sinfonia concertante for wind quartet and orchestra (K. 297b) whose authenticity is still somewhat uncertain.
It is assumed that he wrote the demanding solo viola part in the Sinfonia concertante for himself, and he took pains to ensure that it would make a brilliant effect.
www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=2852   (868 words)

  
 Honolulu Symphony | Program Notes
Sinfonia Concertante for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn and Orchestra in E Flat Major, K. 297b
It is believed that he wrote this Sinfonia Concertante for them in Paris in April, and a performance was scheduled there, but unfortunately the concert manager lost the score.
The clarinet part in the version of the Sinfonia Concertante we know today is probably an adaptation of the part that Mozart originally wrote for the Mannheim flutist.
www.honolulusymphony.com /programnotes/mozart_sinfonia   (478 words)

  
 sinfonia
Sinfonia Concertante for String Quartet and String Orchestra was commissioned by the Newfoundland Sinfonia, the Canadian Chamber Ensemble and the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra through a grant from the Canada Council.
The greatest challenge I faced with the orchestration of this Sinfonia Concertante was the similarity of timbre between the soloists and the orchestra, with no woodwinds to provide any contrast of sonorities.
Sinfonia Concertante was written from October 1991 to December 1991; it was begun in the Leighton Artist Colony in the Banff Centre and completed in Toronto.
www.swgc.mun.ca /mparker/sinfonia.htm   (727 words)

  
 Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, K.364/Concertone, K.190 | SONY BMG Music Entertainment Store - Mozart: Sinfonia ...
Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola, and orchestra is one of his greatest masterpieces.
Unfortunately, in many performances of the Sinfonia Concertante the violist defers to a star violinist, thereby weakening the equality that Mozart gave the two instruments.
From the very first bars of the opening movement of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for viola, violin and orchestra, it is immediately clear this is no routine performance.
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 Prokofiev.org - Sinfonia Concertante for Cello and Orchestra Op.125
Prokofiev.org - Sinfonia Concertante for Cello and Orchestra Op.125
Sinfonia Concertante for Cello and Orchestra, Op 125
Compared to the wonderful Shostakovich First cello concerto with which this is paired, the Sinfonia Concertante is not as demanding technically.
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 Amazon.ca: Clar Cto/Sinfonia Concertante: Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Hans Vonk,Sergio Azzolini,Dresden ...
Sinfonia concertante for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon & orchestra in E flat major (spurious), K(3) 297b (K. Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The clarinetist's fleet, effortless dispatch of the Clarinet Concerto's outer movements is a delight to the ear, and her improvised (or so they seem!) flourishes fit into their environment as if Mozart had written them himself.
The Sinfonia concertante is also an excellent version of one of Mozart's more "lightweight" works, so you really can't go wrong with this CD.
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 allmusic [Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante [Hybrid SACD]]
German violinist Julia Fischer, 24 years old when this recording was released, is surely a bright new star, all charisma as her diminutive self stands between conductor and collaborator Yakov Kreizberg and violist Gordan Nikolic on the cover of this disc.
She has a steely technique that she brings to Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K. -- not a steely work, but the musicianship here is superb.
There are recordings of the Sinfonia Concertante that play more directly to sentiment, but the work's intricate architecture breathes in this interpretation.
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 Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major for Violin, Viola
Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major for Violin, Viola
Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major for Violin, Viola and Orchestra K.364
She captures the intensity behind both pieces, especially in the Sinfonia Concertante.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-20418030.html   (98 words)

  
 Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major, for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn and Orchestra K 297b
Mozart apparently composed a concertante work for four wind instruments and orchestra, but not these same four instruments, in Paris in the early summer of 1778; he never heard it performed, in any form.
What is universally agreed is that the Sinfonia concertante exhibits many characteristics of Mozart's Paris style, and that neither its content nor its construction would discredit him.
It is even conceivable that he might have revised the make-up of the solo quartet to include the clarinet if he had left the revision till after he had settled in Vienna and come under the spell of the brilliant clarinetist Anton Stadler, for whom he wrote several of his late masterworks.
www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=2079   (996 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Double Concertos--J.S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins; Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante; Brahms: Concerto for ...
Sinfonia concertante for violin, viola, and orchestra in E flat major, K. Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
In the Brahms Double concerto for violin and cello, you notice that he and Piatgorsky are completely in sync for the octaves in the beginning of the piece.
The Mozart Sinfonia Concertante was a delight to listen to.
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 K320e The Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, Cello MozartForum Articles
K320e The Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, Cello
Mozart's autograph of his Sinfonia Concertante fragment for Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra K320e (8 pages with 16 written on sides) is presently in the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
He compares the orchestral expositions of the Sinfonia Concertantes, and what is sketched of K320e and K364 and concludes K364 is significantly maturer than K320e and therefore K364 was composed later.
www.mozartforum.com /Lore/article.php?id=164   (609 words)

  
 MOZART: Concerto for Flute and Harp / Sinfonia Concertante CD - Listen to Classical Music - Concertos Music - Naxos ...
MOZART: Concerto for Flute and Harp / Sinfonia Concertante
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Concerto in C major for Flute and Harp, K. 299 Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major, K. 297b As a child prodigy...
The Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major, K. 297b, seems to have been written in Paris in April 1778 for the Mannheim musicians Wendling, Ramm and Ritter, flautist, oboist and bassoonist, and for the virtuoso horn-player Johann Stich, generally known by the Italian translation of his name as Punto.
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  MusicaBona | CD | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E flat major, KV 364 (1779)
5 Violinkonzerte, 5 Violin Concertos, KV 207 · 211 · 216 · 218 · 219, Sinfonia concertante KV 364
Sinfonia concertante KV 297b, Sinfonia concertante KV 364
Sinfonia concertante KV 364, Concertone für 2 Violinen, for 2 Violins · pour 2 Violons, per 2 violini: KV 190
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  Classical Net Review - Crusell/Danzi/Hoffmeister/Abel/Pleyel/etc. - Symphonies Concertantes
Bernhard Henrick Crusell: Sinfonia Concertante for Clarinet, Horn & Bassoon, Op.
The sinfonia concertante arose in the latter half of the 1700s as the successor to the Baroque concerto grosso.
The sinfonia concertante is something of a hybrid, then, but even once one moves beyond Mozart's and Haydn's contributions to the genre, there is much to enjoy and admire.
www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/c/cpo77009a.html   (559 words)

  
  Sinfonia Concertante   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This Sinfonia Concertante is the very opposite of "minimal music"; at the risk of seeming to pun, one might almost call it "maximal".
The early Sinfonia (1962) pointed the way, while the electrifying A Mirror of Whitening Light (1977), strictly speaking for chamber ensemble with single strings, showed that the medium is something he views with no less intensity.
The Sinfonia Concertante is the first of three works, not musically linked, but all for chamber orchestra and thus indicative of a renewed commitment to the medium.
www.maxopus.com /works/sin_conc.htm   (1609 words)

  
 Music Associates of America ~ MadAminA! Whatever Happened to the Sinfonia Concertante
The other four letters which refer to the Sinfonia Concertante, but which have neither been quoted nor described, are dated July 9 and July 18/20 (Wolfgang to Leopold) and May 12/20 and June 11 (Leopold to Wolfgang).
The answer to these questions is a long one but it can be simply summarized: a sinfonia concertante is a concerto for multiple instruments and, in Paris of 1778, the form was all the rage.
Report of the demise of the Sinfonia Concertante as a Mozart composition is premature (though I know of no contemporary Mozart scholar who accepts the work in its current state as being from Mozart's hand).
www.musicassociatesofamerica.com /madamina/1985/sinfonia.html   (2170 words)

  
 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra
The Sinfonia Concertante is in E flat major but for the viola Mozart chose to use a scordatura, which consists in tuning an instrument in a way which is different from the way it is usually tuned, for several reasons, mainly to improve the overall sonority of the instrument.
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante was not a well-known work until Lionel Tertis started playing it as part of his 'viola mission' and played it with Fritz Kreisler in 1924 and later with others and William Primrose playing violin, before Primrose converted to the viola.
At the beginning of the 19th century, somebody thought it was a good idea to transcribe Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for a sextet, to make it playable with a smaller ensemble, easier to put together than a full orchestra.
www.viola-in-music.com /Mozart_Sinfonia_Concertante.html   (1378 words)

  
 GMCD 7181 - Mozart, Sinfonia Concertante
Sinfonia Concertante in E flat for Violin, Viola and Orchestra
Sinfonia Concertante in E flat for Violin, Viola and Orchestra KV 364 (320d)
The exact circumstances of the first performance of his Sinfonia Concertante are not known, but it seems probable it was first performed in Salzburg towards the end of 1779 with Mozart’s deputy concert master, Antonio Brunetti, and Joseph Hafeneder as the soloists.
www.guildmusic.com /catalog/gui7181z.htm   (927 words)

  
 Oehmsclassics: Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg - Salzburger Festspieldokumente
The Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major, K. 297b, is not a fragment, but is not irrefutably considered to be a work of Mozart’s, at least in the form it has come down to us.
This so-called Sinfonia concertante is now part of the standard repertoire, and has enjoyed many extraordinary performances, including some at the summer festival in Salzburg.
Levin’s version of the Sinfonia concertante was performed for the first time in Salzburg by the solo winds of the Mozarteum orchestra in a 1999 festival matinee.
www.oehmsclassics.de /cd.php?formatid=170&sprache=eng   (1057 words)

  
 Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 23 & 36; Sinfonia Concertante | SONY BMG Music Entertainment Store - Mozart: Symphonies ...
That happens on this CD quite a lot, particularly in the smiling and often recorded Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola.
Next is "Sinfonia Concertante," K. 364 which is a concerto for both viola and violin, and it is delightful.
Finally, comes the CD's meat and potatoes piece, the 36th Symphony also known as the "Linzer." Abbado manages to draw his interpretation out to nearly twice the length of his Berlin predecessor Karl Bohm's recording of thirty years earlier on DG Originals, and Abbado's performance offers an interesting contrast to Bohm's version.
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 MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra K.364; Duo for Violin and Viola G K.423 - Igor and David ...
MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra K.364; Duo for Violin and Viola G K.423 - Igor and David Oistrakh/ Moscow Philharmonic/ Kiril Kondrashin cond.
I found the Sinfonia a revelation - with a more serious mood than most of the composer's lighter concertos and divertimenti.
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 YouTube - Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante - Vengerov & Bashmet (part 3)
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Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante - Vengerov & Bashmet (part 2a)
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante - Vengerov & Bashmet (part 1a)
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 OUP: Walton, William/Friend: Sinfonia Concertante (William Walton Edition) (WE11)
The result is a definitive and fully practical edition, based on the form in which the composer ultimately wished it to be performed.
A critical edition of Walton's Sinfonia Concertante for orchestra with piano.
The edition includes the original 1927 version, and the revised 1943 version which reduces the size of the orchestra and simplifies the piano part.
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 Walton: Craggs Catalogue Numbers
C21 - Sinfonia Concertante, for orchestra with piano obbligato (1926, rev. 1943)
C21b - Sinfonia Concertante, arranged for two pianos (arr.
C22 - Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (1929, rev. 1961)
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 Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E flat for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon & Orchestra, K297b, on CD & DVD - Buy ...
Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E flat for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon and Orchestra, K297b
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