Unicorns do exist!!!
Holy ****ing **** I finally found it after 13 years of searching!
A very specific version of Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 in a Major/A-Dur/A-Moll K. 219 - III Rondeau.
Anyone who knows classical music, and many of those here do, will know that there are hundreds, nay, thousands of versions of the classics out there and they all sound different. Some renditions of a piece we like and others not so much.
Many years ago a friend compiled a custom mix CD with a bunch of various tracks on it and this Violin Concerto No. 5 was on it. I fell in love with it on the first listen.
The CD he made was done in MP3, a lossy format and it wasn't done at a decent bitrate either, so it didn't sound it's best, but it still sounded acceptable. Over time, I lost the CD he made me, but I still had a ripped copy I made on an old iPod. A few months ago I was able to get that song off the iPod and onto my computer because I was afraid of losing it forever. All I had was a basic song name on it and nothing more to search with.
Off and on over the last 13 years, I've been trying to locate the original CD that song came from. Talk about trying to find a needle in a haystack! For some reason along the way, I got it in my mind that this song version was performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. I don't know how I came to that conclusion, but I would always search this song and see if the CD listed the BSO or not. If it didn't I would pass it up.
I even mentioned here on the forums in this post in 2014 where I offered it up to download for others to enjoy. (That download link is no longer valid). I mentioned it later in the Fall of 2014 again here. Again, I mentioned this song in 2015 in the private forum. In case it wasn't evident, I really like this song a lot!
Then the other day, as I mentioned in this thread, I was updating my music library with a new tag editor for adding all the album art to my music. For ***** and giggles, I loaded that old crummy MP3 into it to see what, if any, tag information it may have contained. The software, kid3 Tag Editor, has a feature where it can take a song you load into it and search Amazon, Google and some others for information on it. I clicked on the Amazon link and it took me to a CD that showed promise for being my white whale, my unicorn.
I decided to take a chance this time and ordered the CD and it just came in a few minutes ago. It is indeed the version I have been seeking for well over a decade. I'm so happy! It also was not performed by the BSO as I had erroneously thought, but rather Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen/Christian Tetzlaff Violin & Direction.
If anyone is interested in this one, here is the Amazon link to it. I highly recommend this particular CD of Mozart. It's a 2-CD set. Follow that link and scroll down to see the tracklisting. Also, if anyone wants a copy of that song, I'll upload it for you to sample.
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I liked this version of the one piece so much that I went ahead and ordered the album from Amazon! It arrived today -- haven't had a chance to listen to it all yet, but when I looked at the track listing I spotted a couple of favorite Mozart pieces that I've always liked, so thought, hey, let's just get the whole album. It's reasonably priced for a two-CD set, too. I'll also put the CD into iTunes so I'll have it on the iPad and iPhones as well.
