The Sony label has been clearing out its vaults with a series of discs entitled The (fill in name of famous composer here) Collection. The Mozart Collection resembles other releases in the series in its somewhat random quality; the recordings included date back to the mid-'50s, and little effort was expended toward making a sonic whole out of them. The diversity in this case, however, is not necessarily a bad thing. As with many such collections, only single movements of pieces are included, not whole compositions. If you ...
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The Sony label has been clearing out its vaults with a series of discs entitled The (fill in name of famous composer here) Collection. The Mozart Collection resembles other releases in the series in its somewhat random quality; the recordings included date back to the mid-'50s, and little effort was expended toward making a sonic whole out of them. The diversity in this case, however, is not necessarily a bad thing. As with many such collections, only single movements of pieces are included, not whole compositions. If you're brand new to classical music, be aware that listening to it in little chunks this way gives you only part of the story a piece has to tell. But the 16 selections included convey a surprising sense of the range of Mozart's music. There are some famous works that even listeners totally unfamiliar with Mozart might have encountered somewhere (the Piano Sonata in C major, K. 545, Allegro); there's the first movement of the serious Symphony No. 40; there are tossed-off occasional pieces...
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