Mozart: Gran Partita / Berg: Chamber Concerto
May 15th, 2009 by mallen
Check Our Catalog“Both works are by Viennese composers — Berg was born and died there, Mozart moved there and died — and both call for the unusual ensemble of 13 wind instruments. But the distance between the two pieces is still vast. To start with, the forms are entirely different: Mozart’s work is full of solos drawn from within the ensemble, while Berg’s is a true concerto with a pianist and violin soloists taking the lead. More fundamentally, Mozart’s is an enormously delightful and occasionally affecting tonal work while Berg’s is immensely challenging and only occasionally overtly appealing serial work.”–All Music Guide