MOZART / BACH,J.S. - Mozart Divertimento & Preludes To Bach (Sealed) (SACD)

Mozarts brilliance at the keyboard is well known, but it was his joy in playing the viola and the musical dialogue and kinship of playing with friends that led the composer to write his music for string trio. This album features Mozarts Divertimento in E-flat major, as well as his string trio arrangements of three fugues from Bachs Well-Tempered Clavier. In the three additional preludes to his Bach arrangements, Mozart reached an impressive symbiosis between Bachs musical language and his own style. Jonathan Crow, Douglas McNabney and Matt Haimovitz catch the singular spirit of Mozarts take on Bach and offer one of the most animated interpretations of Mozarts Divertimento. Previously released in the US alone as Mozart the Mason on Oxingale, this 2006 recording will now be released worldwide and digitally for the first time as part of the Pentatone Oxingale Series.