Mozart’s Serenade No. 10 in B-flat Major, Gran Partita, K. 361

OVERVIEW

Mozart’s Gran Partita is a sublime achievement in wind music, easily capturing the many emotions of the heart — sometimes all within a single movement. It is a playfully subversive variation on the popular serenade, scored for 13 musicians, which flows naturally between simplistic melodies and elaborate passages, building to a joyful finale.

This performance is from CSO Sessions Ep. 17: Mozart Gran Partita.

PERFORMERS 

William Welter oboe 
Lora Schaefer oboe 
Stephen Williamson clarinet 
Todd Levy clarinet 
John Bruce Yeh basset horn 
Teresa Reilly basset horn 
Keith Buncke bassoon 
Dennis Michel bassoon 
David Cooper horn 
James Smelser horn 
Susanna Gaunt horn 
David Griffin horn 
Robert Kassinger bass 

SPONSORS

Sponsorship support for CSO Sessions is generously provided by the Zell Family Foundation; an anonymous donor; Kenneth C. Griffin Charitable Fund; JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of the DuPage Foundation; the Julian Family Foundation, in honor of Cristina Rocca; Cynthia M. Sargent; Megan and Steve Shebik; Betty W. Smykal; TAWANI Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; ITW, and PNC.