Title: Luminous is the Night
Product review: This is not music that will change your life. There is no Eroica funeral march here. Nor is there an Alma Mahler waiting in the wings for the judgement of posterity. But if you appreciate Mozart's inexhaustible font of melody, there is much to be said for K 203. It is the best of Mozart's pre-Paris serenades (K 185 & K 204 are both works of immanence). It is atmospheric from the first bar of the little march - one could imagine it being played by Watteau's musicians in the gardens of Vaux-le-Vicomte while the constellations look on.The Serenade is immaculately played by Sir Neville Marriner & the ASMF. Mind you, only one other rival comes to mind; from memory, there was a hideous version by the Collegium Aureum on EMI which has thankfully gone the way of all flesh.It also comes in harness with the ubiquitous Serenata Notturna. It too is consummately played.
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