 | Our Summer 2015 Friday Blog and Podcasts reach into past musings. Today's post is a repeat of a Tuesday Blog from July 26, 2011. Some of the post's content and illustrations were changed to fit this month's thematic arc. |
Today’s
post was designed originally to reuse a Tuesday Blog from four summers ago –
the Summer of the String Quartet is what I’d called it – where I proposed a
pair of Mozart quartets. However, upon getting re-acquainted with the post, the
discussion accompanied my then-original version of Mozart’s European
Vacation (which was an encore a few weeks ago in this Mozart series) and
used the opportunity to insert a pair of Czech quartets as a salute to Mozart’s
last stop in Prague.
So, if you
allow me, I will simply recast the post as “Intimate Mozart”, and rather than
fish into YouTube, I will make use of the
Isabella Stewart Gardner museum music library.
I won’t
take time to introduce each piece individually – Mozart wrote substantial
chamber works, for many settings and different combinations of instruments. To
make things interesting, I retained four chamber works, for different groups of
players. Three of the four feature the piano with string players, and the fourth
is a string quartet. The first piece on the program is the only piece that I
retained from the original playlist – Mozart’s “Hunt” quartet.
The piano
is paired with three, two and finally one player – thus a piano quartet, a
piano trio and a sonata for violin with piano. The last piece segues
nicely to a Tuesday
port from February when I features several violin sonatas.
I think you
will love this music too!
Wolfgang
Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791)
String
Quartet No. 17 in B-flat major, "Hunt", K. 458
Performed
by the Borromeo String Quartet
Piano
Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, K. 478
Performed
by the Nash Ensemble
Piano Trio
No. 3 in B-flat Major, K. 502
Performed
by the Claremont Trio
Violin
Sonata in B-Flat Major, K. 454
Ani
Kavafian, violin
André-Michel
Schub, piano
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