W. A. Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik – La Petite Bande & Sigiswald Kuijken (Vinyl Edition)

The recording of Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik (1787) with Sigiswald Kuijken and La Petite Bande offers a new look at seemingly old-fashioned music thanks to sound research: namely, it is a recording in pure quartet instrumentation (two violins, viola and double bass). For Kuijken, this performance is much more likely to convey the lively, direct essence of the music than, say, a chamber orchestra. Although written 15 years earlier, the Divertimento K. 136 complements Mozart’s famous Serenade quite beautifully in terms of scoring, lightness and catchiness.