More Mozart Movie Music

Soundtrack from Amadeus Part II, Academy of St. Martin-In-The-Fields; Sir Neville Marriner, conducting

How often to you come across “movie soundtrack part II”? Allow me to answer that for you: It is rarely seen. The staggering amount of quality performances recorded for the motion picture “Amadeus” necessitated a second CD.

Noticeably absent from the first album, the Queen of the Night, with her four tumultuous high F’s, makes an angry appearance. As does the hauntingly beautiful D Minor Piano Concerto. And how did the first movement to “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” miss the first train?

I got scorched again today. And I’m soothing my singed wherewithal by drinking deep, tranquilizing draughts from the second movement of the Maestro’s Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra in C Major, K. 299. Mmmmmmmmm…. I am now in a much cooler and lullier place.

Credits: To the unsung, and now sung, heroes of the Omni Shoreham, who brought cold, refreshing bottles of water to five parched musicians trapped in the grassy desert surrounding the gazebo.