Orchestre de Chambre & Jean-Francois Paillard - Mozart: Serenade, K. 361 "Gran Partita" (Remastered) (2020) [Hi-Res]

Jean-François Paillard has been a pillar of Erato’s history since its foundation in 1953. This box includes all orchestral and chamber music, as well as the concerto recordings done during Paillard’s collaboration with Erato between 1953 and 1984. With his musicological and researcher background, Paillard was one of the world's pioneers in early music and has been instrumental in making it known to a wide audience.

"Gran Partita" as a subtitle implies that Mozart's Serenade No.10 is a large ambitious work, and although the work is clearly conceived as a whole 'cycle', it was not ascribed to the score by the composer himself. Mozart's vast 7-movement work for 13 wind instruments has an elusive compositional history and was thought for a long time to have been composed in 1780 or 1781 for a performance in Munich. No mention of the Serenade appears in any of Mozart's letters from that time and, in the 1970s, when the new critical edition of Mozart's works was published, after exhaustive studies of the autograph, it is now believed that the work was first performed in 1784 at a benefit concert for the Vienna-based basset-horn player Anton Stadler. The Serenade also bears the hallmarks of Mozart's later writing and certainly postdates the two wind serenades in E flat and C minor that were definitely composed in 1782.

Orchestre de chambre
Jean-Francois Paillard, conductor

Digitally remastered