Mozart: Serenade, K. 361 "Gran Partita" (Remastered) Orchestre de Chambre & Jean-Francois Paillard

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major, K. 361 "Gran Partita":
• 1 Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major, K. 361 "Gran Partita": I. Largo - Allegro molto 09:22
• 2 Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major, K. 361 "Gran Partita": II. Menuetto 09:00
• 3 Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major, K. 361 "Gran Partita": III. Adagio 05:59
• 4 Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major, K. 361 "Gran Partita": IV. Menuetto 06:04
• 5 Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major, K. 361 "Gran Partita": V. Romance. Adagio 06:14
• 6 Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major, K. 361 "Gran Partita": VI. Tema con variazioni 09:26
• 7 Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major, K. 361 "Gran Partita": VII. Rondo 03:27
• Total Runtime 49:32

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Jean-François Paillard has been a pillar of Erato’s history since its foundation in 1953. This box includes all orchestral and chamber music, as well as the concerto recordings done during Paillard’s collaboration with Erato between 1953 and 1984. With his musicological and researcher background, Paillard was one of the world's pioneers in early music and has been instrumental in making it known to a wide audience.

"Gran Partita" as a subtitle implies that Mozart's Serenade No.10 is a large ambitious work, and although the work is clearly conceived as a whole 'cycle', it was not ascribed to the score by the composer himself. Mozart's vast 7-movement work for 13 wind instruments has an elusive compositional history and was thought for a long time to have been composed in 1780 or 1781 for a performance in Munich. No mention of the Serenade appears in any of Mozart's letters from that time and, in the 1970s, when the new critical edition of Mozart's works was published, after exhaustive studies of the autograph, it is now believed that the work was first performed in 1784 at a benefit concert for the Vienna-based basset-horn player Anton Stadler. The Serenade also bears the hallmarks of Mozart's later writing and certainly postdates the two wind serenades in E flat and C minor that were definitely composed in 1782.

Orchestre de chambre
Jean-Francois Paillard, conductor

Digitally remastered

Jean-François Paillard
Conductor and musicologist Jean-François Paillard was one of the most visible French exponents of Baroque music from the 1960s onward. Paillard earned a degree in mathematics from the Sorbonne, but he turned to music soon after. He attended the Paris Conservatory as a musicology student, where he won first prize in music history; he later studied conducting at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Igor Markevitch. He formed the Ensemble Jean-Marie Leclair in 1952, which was renamed the Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra the following year. Comprised of a dozen string players and a harpsichord, the group paralleled such small-scale English ensembles as the Boyd Neel Orchestra in performing Baroque-era works -- especially those from France -- as well as contemporary works for string orchestra. As the public's interest in Baroque music rose, the orchestra's popularity grew and was aided by a series of international tours covering dozens of countries. The group's recordings on Erato -- which included the standard Baroque repertory such as Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and the Orchestral Suites, as well as pieces by Couperin and Rameau -- were initially easier to find in Europe. But when RCA Victor picked up the Erato catalog for U.S. distribution in the 1970s, Paillard's records were snapped up by American listeners. Lightning struck for Paillard late in the decade with his recording of the Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel. Paillard's ran nearly twice as long as most rival recordings, by virtue of its uniquely slow tempo and its finely delineated parts for the strings, both bowed and pizzicato. Paillard further benefited when Victor issued it on a full-priced LP and paired it with Fasch's Trumpet Concerto and grouped with various RCA artists on a budget-priced compilation LP called Go for Baroque. Sales of Go for Baroque moved faster than Beatles' albums were sold. Paillard's performances and recordings have also included works by Roussel and Debussy. He has worked with such celebrated soloists as Maurice André and Jean-Pierre Rampal. Paillard has won numerous Grand Prix du Disque awards in France and Prix Edison awards in Holland and his release of Rameau's Les Indes galantes remains a highly regarded recording. Later in his career, Paillard turned more to guest conducting orchestras around the world and his avid interest in the sciences.

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