Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute
					Sound: 9 Presentation: 7 Feeling: 8
	Running Time: 6:48
		Besides the promising opening chords, this peice doesn't really get started until the 1:28 mark at which point a delightful, quick and cheery melody chimes in. It sounds wild, yet perfectly under control, an effect only Mozart could pull off. At exactly the two minute point, the theme is repeated but louder and incorperating more of the orchestra. Throughout the peice the theme and bits of it are repeated, but sounds beautiful, and oddly original. At 3:23 it sounds like a perfect ening, but Mozart teases you with four 'finishing chords' and then continues a string version of his beautiful melody, this time sounding more in a minor key than before. A repeating descending scale for the violins takes us into a very soft version of the melody that finally builds up to a loud and breathtaking climactic movement. Quickly subsiding back down to a quiet harmony, the loud melody is once again repeated as the tension builds in this fantastic overture. The strings increase in volume as the end draws near and the real final chords ring true.