Eine Kleine Nachtmuzik/Concerto Grosso

Eine kleine Nachtmusik - 'A Little Night-music' is a beguiling title for a piece of music, and one that even a publisher could not have improved upon. The Serenade, scored for first and second violins, violas, cellos and double basses, begins with a lively Allegro, introduced by an opening fanfare in unison, and with a second subject formed out of some lovely phrases, one of which comes into the brief "development" section. Symphony No. 25 - Up to the middle of 1773 Mozart had modeled the majority of his symphonies on the three-movement Italian operati sinfonia. During a stay in Vienna in 1773 he was able to hear some of the latest Viennese symphonies, and when he returned to home he produced three symphonies (No. 25 in G minor, No. 28 in C and No. 29 in A) that, besides being more mature in musical content than any of their predecessors, are unequivocally cast in the weightier, four-movement form adopted by Haydn and his Viennese contemporaries. The G minor Symphony is the most striking of the three, not least because of it's remarkable affinity with Mozart's only other minor-key symphony - the great G minor of 1788 (No. 40).