Mozart: Night Music

Featuring

Andrew Manze
The English Concert
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Performer Biography

Andrew Manze became the Artistic Director of The English Concert in July 2003, succeeding Trevor Pinnock, and plans to expand into Classical repertoire.

Performer Biography

The English Concert, formed in 1973, is an early music ensemble that has maintained its reputation for over 30 years through best-selling recordings and international touring.

Compositional Technique

The Menuet and Trio, K. 485a, was originally a skeletal composition by Mozart given to his English student Thomas Attwood to complete as an exercise, then corrected and improved by Mozart.

Composition History

The Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K. 546, originated as a fugue for two pianos written in Vienna in 1783, during a period when Mozart studied works by Handel and J.S. Bach.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Mozart sometimes used the term "Nachtmusik" (night music) in preference to "Serenade" or "Notturno," all of which refer to music for evening performances.

Performer Biography

Andrew Manze, the director and violinist on this album, is described as "a violinist with extraordinary flair and improvisatory freedom" and "the first modern superstar of the baroque violin."

Recording & Production

This album was recorded in February and March 2003 at Air Studios, Lyndhurst Hall, London, with Robina G. Young as producer.

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