After Mozart

Release Year: 2005
Label: Nonesuch
Tracks

1. 5 min. from the life of W.A.M. (A. Raskatov)

2. Serenatta Notturna, D major, K. 239: I. Marcia – Maestoso (W. A. Mozart)

3. Serenatta Notturna, D major, K. 239: II. Menuetto – Trio (W. A. Mozart)

4. Serenatta Notturna, D major, K. 239: III. Rondeau – Allegretto (W. A. Mozart)

5. The Messenger (V. Silvestrov)

6. A Little night music (‘Eine kleine Nachtmusik’), G major , K. 525: I. Allegro (W. A. Mozart)

7. A Little night music (‘Eine kleine Nachtmusik’), G major , K. 525: II. Romance – Andante (W. A. Mozart)

8. A Little night music (‘Eine kleine Nachtmusik’), G major , K. 525: III. Menuetto – Trio (W. A. Mozart)

9. A Little night music (‘Eine kleine Nachtmusik’), G major , K. 525: IV. Rondo – Allegro (W. A. Mozart)

10. Moz-Art à la Haydn (A. Schnittke)

11. Children’s symphony (“Berchtolsgadener”), C Major: I. Allegro (L. Mozart)

12. Children’s symphony (“Berchtolsgadener”), C Major: II. Menuetto-Trio (L. Mozart)

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Reviews and impressions

Kremerata Baltica is truly an ensemble that plays as one. – The Independent

Eccentric 20th­ century perspectives on the Viennese Classical master. – Gramophone

 

2001 Grammy Award Winner

After Mozart, the 2001 Grammy winner for Best Small Ensemble Performance, by Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica, brings together the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (and his father, Leopold), with three contemporary works inspired by him. The works included, by contemporary Eastern European composers such as Alexander Raskatov, Valentin Silvestrov and Alfred Schnittke, invoke Mozart’s memory in ways direct and more subtle, and the more familiar Mozart pieces sandwiched in serve to bring the listener to a new way of hearing the more familiar pieces. The disc is an attempt, in Kremer’s words, to “set Mozart in the frame of our own time.”