Word: camerata
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...Conductor Paumgartner first divided Mozart's total output into eight categories, selected works from each as representative of a special genre or period in Mozart's life. The big symphonies are being recorded by Amsterdam's splendid Concertgebouw Orchestra, smaller ones by Paumgartner's own Camerata Academica orchestra; concertos are assigned to Dutch artists, who may be excellent but are rarely the top Mozart specialists. Among Epic's U.S. releases so far: four Violin Concertos, sensitively played by Arthur Grumiaux; a lovely, liquid-toned performance of the Clarinet Concerto by Richard Schonhofer; intelligent, sometimes-intense...