PENTATONE OXINGALE SERIES ''MOZART DIVERTIMENTO & Preludes to Bach"

When he originally recorded this album in 2006, cellist Matt Haimovitz, a player with an insatiable musical curiosity, was already exploring more unusual repertoire. In this case, he tackles Mozart’s enchanting and strangely neglected Divertimento, K. 563, with its sublime, slow second movement, plus a trio of Mozart’s arrangements of preludes as well as ingenious and miraculously handled fugues by Bach. Haimovitz is joined by Jonathan Crow (violin) and Douglas McNabney (viola), who play as one yet also each bring an attractive personality to the music. This is wonderfully generous chamber music-making, and a joy to eavesdrop on.