Ensemble Marsyas & Peter Whelan - Mozart: Serenade in C Minor, K. 388 - BBC Music Magazine

C minor was not a key that Mozart used that often, and he generally reserved it for heavyweight works. The title Serenade implies something much lighter, but the uncompromising opening immediately tells us that this is serious stuff, and the colour of the period instruments gives the texture a bite ... All brightly and naturally recorded, this is chamber music-making at its best.