Mozart: Divertimenti

This new recording includes four sextets for pairs of clarinets, horns and bassoons, together with the Serenade in E flat major, the first of Mozart's three great wind serenades. This is wonderful repertoire, and since 2012 it has been a focus of exploration for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Wind Soloists.

A 24-bit 192 kHz studio master for this album is available from the Linn Records website.

CKD479 66 minutes 36 seconds

'The E flat Serenade, usually heard in its wind octet version, with added oboes, is a masterpiece … the SCO wind soloists play the rare original scoring for six players—darker in timbre and spar ...
'Frank-Gemmill and Johnstone’s [natural horn] playing and that of all their SCO colleagues is equally worthy of praise … [SCO] players have been making a speciality of performing wind-band music ...