Mozart - Serenade in B flat major : Gran Partita Fantasia in F minor : Stuttgart Winds - 180g LP

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Mozart - Serenade in B flat major : Gran Partita Fantasia in F minor : Stuttgart Winds - 180g LP
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AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

Tacet -  L209 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - AAA 100% Analogue  

Half Speed Mastering  Pressed at Pallas Germany - Limited Edition

This LP is an Entirely Analogue Production

"Magnificent performance ... brilliantly colorful."  - Audiophile Audition

This is an LP to cherish, either for a lover of classical music in general, for an audiophile (especially), or for a Mozart fanatic. I am all three, so this LP will not stray far from my turntable Sound 5/5 Audiobeat

The recorded sound is fascinating. The lacquers were cut using half-speed mastering (which is said to improve the accuracy and quality of the groove profile). There is an excellent sense of depth that appears to mirror the album photo. However, the liner note say the musicians were sat in a closed circle, and, being analogue, one can hear the acoustic space around the performers. Definition and clarity are exemplary (although the double bass sounds slightly tubby) and every instrument can be clearly heard – internal balance is perfect. . Nonetheless, if you want this work in analogue sound – and who wouldn’t – this is the version to go for, and one can only hope Stuttgart Winds will turn to Gounod and Dvořák - Classical Source

The record is very good, very nicely played and equally well recorded". Sound quality: 10/10 HIFidelty Review
 
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Serenade in B-flat major, KV 361 ("Gran Partita") - Stuttgart Winds
 
Can a small ensemble perform a monumental work?  Absolutely, as is demonstrated so impressively by Mozart’s Serenade for Winds in B flat major, K. 361. Just a handful of musicians – 13 in all – enchant us for well over 45 minutes with a superb and inimitable serenade of symphonic proportions. In this highly original composition one must constantly admire the thrilling presence of the players who perform brilliantly both as soloists and in pairs.
 
Bowing to the traditions of the Viennese Divertimento, Mozart unfolds his artistic and entertaining ideas before his good-humoured audience, both those of then and of now.
The small forms, such as the courtly Minuet and the cheerful Laendler, provide a marked contrast to the sanctified Adagio and the blithe Rondo-Finale in the manner of a drinking song. 
 
The Stuttgart Winds perform with freshness and inspiration, and the sound is further enhances by Tacet’s recording engineer Andreas Spreer, using half-speed mastering to achieve the best-possible sound. The contemporary author Johann Friedrich Schink would have had much pleasure from this deceleration of speed that improves the quality of sound; he described his pleasure at a concert in the following words:
 
Every instrument was played by a maestro – oh what an effect – glorious and grandiose, inspired and sublime.
 
Recording: October 2012 by Andreas Spreer
 
I had an original 1963 London vinyl of this with the London Wind Soloists directed by Jack Brymer and thought, well, this multichannel Blu-ray is going to easily win out over the LP with its super hi-res sonics and the 13 players of the Stuttgart Winds spaced out in a circle around the listener, but it won’t equal the terrific performance the London musicians gave this important, lengthy (44 minutes) and often almost symphonic wind serenade.  Well I was wrong, it also beats them in the performance area. Perhaps it’s also due to the absolutely perfect tonal characteristics of the digital Blu-ray compared to the small amount of flutter and wow existent in almost any turntable. Clarinets are especially known for sounding bad if the speed and pacing are not perfect.
 
Mozart was an absolute master at achieving gorgeous tone color in his music, and this Serenade for 13 Winds is brilliantly colorful. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, viewed the work as really an opera for 13 instruments. Another conductor, Roger Norrington, worked with most of these performers in the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, where they are also members. They are all superb. The winds are mostly doubled, and the clarinets get to shine. They were fairly new to music and Mozart use of them captivated his listeners at the time. There are plenty of contrasts of large and full sounds with solo and more chamber-music sections, as well as contrasts in dynamics. There are also variations of the slow and the fast and sprightly, such as between the penultimate (and longest) of the seven movements: the Andante, and the closing cheerful Rondo.

Production: Andreas Spreer

Musicians:
Stuttgart Winds

Selections:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Serenade in B flat Major KV 361 "Gran Partita"

1. Largo. Molto allegro
2. Menuetto - Trio I & II
3. Adagio
4. Menuetto. Allegretto - Trio I & II
5. Romanze
6. Tema con variazioni. Andante
7. Finale. Molto Allegro
 
Mozart - Serenade in B flat major : Gran Partita Fantasia in F minor : Stuttgart Winds - 180g LP

Tube Only” means: only tube microphones and amplifiers were used for the recording.

 For the LP,  (except for rare exceptions, justified for musical reasons) the signal is even stored on a tube tape recorder and then mastered with valve equipment, so that one would be right in saying that for the entire production not a single transistor was used. 

We have always been especially pleased to receive so much feedback about our Tube Only productions. This motivates us even more to keep working with this technology and rescue it from oblivion. People have told us that the music sounds warmer, without losing any of its TACET brilliance. The timbres glow more. We have also heard that people have the impression of a more homogeneous sound, whatever that is meant to be. So let everyone listen to their own hearts and to the Tube Only recordings and feel something special! Even the sheer joy of this slightly nostalgic outstanding technology can be reason enough to like these productions. Yet what would it all be without the wonderful work of the artists! 

 
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