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Mozart: The Wind Concertos (various soloists, the Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan conductor; Angel, 3 LPs, $17.98). An exquisitely executed anthology for the Mozartean who has everything-or thinks he does. The selections range from what might be called the camaraderie concertos, the Sinfonia Concertante, K. 297b (featuring oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn) and the Flute and Harp Concerto, K. 299, to the solo works for bassoon (K. 191), flute (K. 313), oboe (K. 314) and clarinet (K. 622). Von Karajan's soloists, drawn from the Berlin Philharmonic, are superb...
...sanity and senility, Gielgud and Richardson are living textbooks of stagecraft, distilling decades of experience into the flourish of a cane, the fumbling of a card trick, the crack of a voice. Their reading of a passage like the following raises tiny lyrical fragments to a level of Mozartean serenity...
Tonal Anguish. What the audience did notice was that there was nothing minor about Maag's conducting talent. He has all the requirements for a superior conductor of Haydn and Mozart -a faultless sense of classical proportion and a keen ear for blended Mozartean sonority that allows important detail to come through crisply...
...With weird blips and whooshes they describe the loneliness of being 2000 Light Years from Home and lament the computerization of 2000 Man ("'My name is a number, a piece of plastic film"). The prettiest number is She's a Rainbow, a shimmering love song with a Mozartean piano introduction...
...sturdily built, wavy-haired man with a Mozartean profile, Davis has about him an air of modesty that is all but unknown in his ego-happy profession. He disdains publicity, regards the rantings and ravings of fellow conductors as a bloody bore. "At the Met," he says, "they seem surprised that I don't get excited or demented. But I feel it's important not to work yourself up in rehearsals. If you do, then there is nothing left for the performance...