thelightisahead | Can you help me identify this?? @thelightisahead | Uploaded 15 years ago | Updated 1 hour ago
This is an Adagio by Mozart that was on a CD-transferred version of one of my violin teacher's old LPs. The trouble is I have no idea where it's from! I have the complete works and, though I haven't listened through them yet, I've checked all the violin sonata slow movements, and other possibilities, such as the slow movements of serenades. It doesn't really sound like an arrangement - it suits the violin, with piano accompaniment, too well. I wondered if it was possibly an arrangement of an aria, but quickly threw this idea aside - the pitch range is too great, and the form isn't really of the aria type.
I worked out that the key is approximately E flat, but this recording may be slightly slowed down or sped up, which would change the pitch and thus the key we hear it in (a problem with the later tracks on the CD-LP anyway, which were all too fast and very high).
I don't think this could be another person's work, passing it off as Mozart - it's unlikely that something dubious would be picked for the LP, and at any rate, Mozart's style is so perfect and pure that few, if any, have been able to imitate him. After all, that's ones reason why I want to know what this is - to get the sheet music, because it's so great! This must be authentic Mozart - but what is it?? Hope you can help!
PS. Sorry about the sound quality. Although off an old LP, and so has some pops and general rustle etc., it's not too bad, but I moviemaker has taken the quality down a fair step (especially noticeable in some piano parts), which it seems to do to my vids from time to time - that's why I haven't yet been able to upload the second part of the 3rd movement of Beethoven's 9th symphony. Any suggestions on this issue would also be much appreciated! I have Adobe Premiere Elements, but prefer the general easy interface, titles and saving formats in moviemaker.
This is an Adagio by Mozart that was on a CD-transferred version of one of my violin teacher's old LPs. The trouble is I have no idea where it's from! I have the complete works and, though I haven't listened through them yet, I've checked all the violin sonata slow movements, and other possibilities, such as the slow movements of serenades. It doesn't really sound like an arrangement - it suits the violin, with piano accompaniment, too well. I wondered if it was possibly an arrangement of an aria, but quickly threw this idea aside - the pitch range is too great, and the form isn't really of the aria type.
I worked out that the key is approximately E flat, but this recording may be slightly slowed down or sped up, which would change the pitch and thus the key we hear it in (a problem with the later tracks on the CD-LP anyway, which were all too fast and very high).
I don't think this could be another person's work, passing it off as Mozart - it's unlikely that something dubious would be picked for the LP, and at any rate, Mozart's style is so perfect and pure that few, if any, have been able to imitate him. After all, that's ones reason why I want to know what this is - to get the sheet music, because it's so great! This must be authentic Mozart - but what is it?? Hope you can help!
PS. Sorry about the sound quality. Although off an old LP, and so has some pops and general rustle etc., it's not too bad, but I moviemaker has taken the quality down a fair step (especially noticeable in some piano parts), which it seems to do to my vids from time to time - that's why I haven't yet been able to upload the second part of the 3rd movement of Beethoven's 9th symphony. Any suggestions on this issue would also be much appreciated! I have Adobe Premiere Elements, but prefer the general easy interface, titles and saving formats in moviemaker.
