Mozart - String Quintet No. 2 in C minor, K. 406/Serenade for Winds in C minor, K. 388

Mozart

String Quintet No. 2 in C minor, K. 406

[우리말 해설]

현악 5중주 2번 볼프강 아마데우스 모차르트, String Quintet No. 2 in c minor, K.406

〈현악 5중주 2번〉은 모차르트 자신의 곡, 〈관악 8중주〉를 편곡한 작품이다. 원곡보다 실내악적인 면모를 살렸으며, 밝은 느낌보다 현악 4중주에 비올라를 더했다.|편곡된 작품 이 곡은 오보에, 클라리넷, 호른, 바순을 위해 작곡된 〈관악 8중주〉 K.388을 모차르트 자신이 현악 5중주를 위해 편곡한 작품이다. 17...

시대 : 고전 분류 : 고전주의 음악 > 실내악 > 현악 5중주 제작시기 : 1787년 작곡가 : 볼프강 아마데우스 모차르트(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756~1791) 출판 : 1789년(알타리아) 편성 : 바이올린 2, 비올라 2, 첼로

도서 클래식 백과 | 태그 서양음악 , 음악

 

I. Allegro 0:03
II. Andante 8:17
III. Menuetto in Canone 12:33
IV. Allegro 16:48

 

Composed in 1787, a transcription of his earlier Serenade No. 12, K. 388, for wind octet.

Serenade in C minor for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns & 2 bassoons, K. 388/384a (1782)

00:00 - Allegro
11:37 - Andante
15:47 - Menuetto in canone
20:26 - Allegro

The Scottish National Orchestra Wind Ensemble, dir. Paavo Järvi (1985)

Oboes: John Digney & Clare Johnson
Clarinets: John Cushing & Josef Pacewicz
Horns: Ian Smith & Joseph Currie
Bassoons: Lesley Wilson & Allan Geddes

"The C minor Serenade, a masterpiece of music, appears, however, in a repertoire dedicated to sociable entertainment, curiously out of place. Perhaps the prince asked for a wind band piece of a contemplative nature to suit his less sociable moods. The choice of key may also have Masonic significance, since both men were Freemasons...

The C minor work is short on movements for a serenade, having only four; neither [K. 375 nor K. 388] includes an introductory march. Later, when Mozart needed a string quintet to make up a set, he transcribed this wind sextet... The first movement is the only overtly tragic one, and here the drama is strong, not pathetic; this is the sort of C minor which Alfred Einstein characterized as possessing 'aggressive unisons and lyric interludes'--both can be heard in plenty. There is also, for a serenade, a surprising quantity of contrapuntal music (significant because the Minuet and Trio are devoted to the strictest of all contrapuntal textures: canon, and double canon by inversion in the Trio).

The Andante is a true serenade movement, in balmy E-flat major, full of exquisite dialogue between the instruments, untouched by the cares of C minor. The Minuet's canonic tour de force was possibly inspired by Haydn; at any rate this sort of minuet was not unprecedented. The Finale consists of a neatly shaped C minor melody with seven variations. Of these, No. 3 makes a features of syncopation, No. 5 is preceded by a horn call which looks forward to the entry of Donna Anna and Don Ottavio in the Act 2 sextet of Don Giovanni. This variation is in E-flat major. The horn call recurs at the end to restore C minor for variation No. 6. Variation No. 7 consists of slow chords which hide the shape of the theme; we are nearer to tragedy here than anywhere. And so, after a pause, the theme reappears in C major to end the serenade in high spirits." - William Mann

Painting: Four Philosophers & a Bust of Seneca [detail], Peter Paul Rubens