Friday, September 28, 2012

Mozart's Gran Partita - A treasure of the wind repertoire

George Szell conducting members of the wind section from the Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall, 1969. This is a real Youtube treasure -- one of the best recordings of the best wind music ever written. There are other great recordings: Furtwanger and Berlin (I think) and Marcel Moyse (recommended by David McGill) but I prefer this one. It has everything I love about Szell conducting Mozart: precision, refinement and expression in superb classical proportions.

Conductor: George Szell
Clarinet: Robert Marcellus
Oboe: John Mack
Horn: Philip Farkas 

Mov't 1
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M7

 

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