Mozart: The 5 Violin Concertos Nils-Erik Sparf & Uppsala Kammarorkester

• 1 I. Allegro moderato 06:56
• 2 II. Adagio 06:50
• 3 III. Presto 05:55
• 4 I. Allegro moderato 08:36
• 5 II. Andante 05:50
• 6 III. Rondo: Allegro 05:00
• 7 I. Allegro 08:53
• 8 II. Adagio 06:12
• 9 III. Rondeau: Allegro 06:28
• 10 I. Allegro 09:18
• 11 II. Andante cantabile 05:32
• 12 III. Rondo: Andante grazioso 07:39
• 13 I. Allegro aperto - Adagio - Allegro aperto 09:38
• 14 II. Adagio 08:22
• 15 III. Tempo di menuetto 09:03
• Total Runtime 01:50:12

Info for Mozart: The 5 Violin Concertos

Mozart’s five Violin Concertos are each lovely and endearing works, with the fourth and fifth being acknowledged masterpieces of the genre.Veteran violinist Nils-Erik Sparf inhabits the dual role of solo performer and conductor of the Uppsala Chamber Orchestra on this two-album set of Mozart’s complete Violin Concertos.Current concertmaster of the Uppsala Chamber Orchestra and principal violinist of the Uppsala Chamber Soloists, Mr. Sparf has garnered a number of distinctions and awards for his unique interpretations and has made a great number of CD recordings.

Nils-Erik Sparf, violin, leader
Uppsala Kammarorkester

Nils-Erik Sparf harks from a family of fiddlers in Rättvik, Dalecarlia. his father, Sparf-Anders, was a well-known personality and fiddler. both folk music and classical music were played in the home. as a five-year-old, Nils-Erik heard his father play Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 in a major. here is how he describes this music today: Here is something self-evident about Mozart’s music; it’s like clear water, or like a spring brook. e di cult part of Mozart’s music is its crystal clarity, its free ow; you have to make sure you don’t get in its way. Even in sorrowful minor-key sections the ow is free and open. The music has to leave your hands in the same light manner it was written. And this is something you truly have to strive for... and strive not to strive for... so it sounds light and free...

Nils-Erik Sparf works at Music in Uppland as concertmaster of the Uppsala Chamber orchestra and principal violinist of the Uppsala Chamber soloists. Moreover, he serves as leader of the Drottningholm baroque Ensemble and concertmaster of the stockholm sinfonietta. he has previously been the concertmaster of the Stockholm royal Court orchestra and the royal stockholm philharmonic orchestra. he has made a great number of CD recordings.

Nils-Erik Sparf has been a member of the royal academy of Music since 1992. he has garnered a number of distinctions and awards for his unique interpretations. In January 2004 he was awarded the Litteris et Artibus Medal, conferred by king Carl XVi Gustaf, and in November 2013 the interpret prize from the royal academy of Music. Nils-Erik Sparf plays an Antonio Stradivarius from 1709 that is owned by the Järnåker Foundation.