Mozart String Quintet 4 G minor (period instruments) part 1

Mozart string quintet in g minor k.516
Salomon Quartet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRJHBSvA_Hg
The String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K. 516 was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Like all of Mozart's string quintets, this work is a "viola quintet" in that is scored for string quartet and an extra viola (two violins, two violas and cello).

The work was completed on May 16, 1787, less than a month following the completion of his grand C Major Quintet, K. 515. This would not be the last time that a great pair of C major/G minor works of the same form would be published in close proximity and assigned consecutive Köchel numbers. The following year, the 40th (G minor) and 41st (C major) symphonies would be completed within a few weeks of each other.

The work is in standard four movement form: * I. Allegro * II. Menuetto: Allegretto * III. Adagio ma non troppo * IV. Adagio - Allegro

The mood of the piece is dark and melancholic, typical of Mozart's other G minor works. The first movement is in sonata form with both the first and second themes in G minor. The movement does not resolve to the major key in the recapitulation and has a minor-key ending.

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[pviola314]

I love love love this interpretation sans excessive vibrato. The tone colors that jump out are out of this world! So expressive.

[elias12186]

Ageed 100%

Its hard for me to hear another performance of this work.

[siLveRscOpe13x]

this is the kind of stuff that makes mozart my favorite composer of all time. as a composition major, i'm going to be looking to his work a lot for inspiration. :)

[beethomozart]

feverish energy opening this wonderful quintett,long live mozart

[1banders]

@301250 Modern instrument performances, with their shrill metal strings and relentless vibrato, sound ugly and forced.

[donnyab]

@harrynking777

in more ways than one , nudge nudge wink wink say no more

[adineli]

@301250 Mozart himself said that one can say the most horrible things in a nice way. I do not know if the quintet "ought" to be any single way. The beauty of really great music is its malleability. What makes this interpretation stand out is that it keeps the elegance you would expect Mozart would have displayed at the time while still conveying a sense of deep sadness. Other times, different cultural conventions, they are so well shown here!

[tkerstin]

There is an advantage of being the first one at something, I know Bach, Vivaldi, Handel and Purcell all came before him but lets face it, Brahms, Schubert, Wagner and even the great Beethoven, were heavily inspired by the genius that is Mozart. The man who effortlessly transcended the Baroque and Romantic eras

[TSD86]

Very good! Thank you!

[z3Carlos]

upper class music my ears feel so rich and nice, good music doesn't come with a price tag it comes with a heart and a good ear

[zzizee]

WHAT GROUP IS THIS?!!!! MUST KNOW!!!!

[harrynking777]

@beethovenlovedmozart Beethoven lived longer than Mozart but he didn't do 'more of it'. Mozart was more prolific.

[301250]

The musicians here are certainly highly accomplished and the playing on period instruments very polished but the results seem to me very pretty rather than profound, or even anguished as this quintet in the minor key ought to be.

[biblicalperspectives]

Albert Einstein was supposed to have played Mozart’s great G Minor quintet at the age of 73. A group of young musicians calling themselves the Julliard String Quartet visited him at his Princeton house and then surprised him with a request to play his violin. Although out-of-practice from his Berlin days, he obliged with the beautifully-brooding music. Later when the visitors left, he remarked: “Music should not follow the frantic pace of life. It has its own tempo.” How true.