‘Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy!’ This is the title that the South African soprano Golda Schultz has decided to give to her new album, devoted to the female heroines of Don Giovanni , Così fan tutte and Le nozze di Figaro , roles that have marked her career from Berlin to The Metropolitan Opera: ‘Why does Mozart ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Breathtaking and dewy: Richard Strauss believed he could hear "revelations of the innermost soul of the world" in the melodies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The late Romantic composer was one of Mozart's greatest admirers throughout his life. And if you listen closely, you can also hear Mozartian lightness in Richard Strauss' music. On her album Mozart - ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Hidden Voices, Mozart Piano Sonatas, Volume IV
“Having listened for over half a century to tens of thousands of recordings of Mozart’s music be it piano music, string quartets, symphonies, operas, et al. I have been hugely energised by these recordings not because they are so great, but because they are usually so terrible! ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Hidden Voices, Mozart Piano Sonatas, Volume III
"Having listened for over half a century to tens of thousands of recordings of Mozart’s music, be it piano music, string quartets, symphonies, operas, et al, I have been hugely energized by these recordings. Not because they are so great, but because they are often so terrible! ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart Piano Concertos 11, 12, & 13
The three concertos featured on this album were composed together in 1782 / 83 – shortly after Mozart had left his patron and position in Salzburg to establish himself as a freelance composer and performer in Vienna. The concertos were all performed by the composer in a series of subscription concerts that he gave in the city. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
The First Vienna Concertos | Piano Concertos Nos. 11-12-13
Concertos No. 11, 12, and 13 were Mozart’s first Concertos written upon moving to Vienna from Salzburg. In a letter addressed to his father Leopold, he described them as “a happy medium between too easy and too difficult; very brilliant, pleasing to the ear, and natural, without being vapid.” By then, Mozart ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
London Concertante present a sensational evening at the opera with an array of the finest opera arias and overtures, including works from Puccini, Verdi, Rossini, and Mozart – some of the best from Madame Butterfly, Turandot, Tosca, The Barber of Seville, Carmen, Cosi fan Tutti and so much more. ...
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Charles Gounod (1818-1893), Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Rinaldo di Capua (1710-1770), George Bizet (1838-1875), Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Leo Delibes (1836-1891), Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), Franz Lehar (1870-1948)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Make a recording of two of Mozart’s three flute concertos? For Helena Macherel, it felt like an obvious thing to do. “How could one say no to such an offer?” The patron of the arts, now deceased, who backed her for years, encouraged her in this direction. “I’m not looking for originality at any price, just to let myself be carried away ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 18 KV 456 & 21 KV 467
"Bravo Mozart!" exclaimed Emperor Joseph II as he stood up and tipped his hat at the end of the first performance of Piano Concerto No. 18 KV 456 , played by Mozart himself on 30 September 1784. Less than a year later, the composer pens his iconic 21st concerto, which is performed here by the Mozarteumorchester ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Daniel Hope's new album "Dance!" reflects his boundless interest in the most diverse styles and eras of music. The star violinist takes us through seven centuries of music history and explores the rhythms that move the body and open the heart. ...
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), Sergei Prokofiev (1953), Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1993), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), George Bizet (1838-1875), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Bela Bartók (1881–1945), Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992), Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), Matthew Locke (1622-1677), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Henry Purcell (1659–1695)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Mozart Symphonies III - Nos. 9, 14, 20 and 24
As a rising star, Wolfgang was just 13 years old when he wrote the first of the brilliant symphonies that the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen is presenting on its new GENUIN album under the direction of Johannes Klumpp. The outstanding ensemble enters the third round of its Mozart recordings with four ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Renato Wiedemann: Roots. 20th Century Violin Sonatas from Brazil and Switzerland
Swiss violinist Renato Wiedemann has chosen a very personal theme for his debut album. As a dual Swiss-Brazilian citizen, he also wanted to reflect on his roots musically, and so the choice fell on a recording of 20th century violin sonatas from Switzerland and Brazil. The result is a special and unusual programme ...
Composer: Ernest Bloch (1880-1959), Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957), Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), Ernst Widmer (1927-1990), Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart: Horn Concertos Nos. 1-4
The Brandenburger Theater presents the first album of the Brandenburger Symphoniker under chief conductor Andreas Spering: "Mozart - Horn Concertos" with soloist Sibylle Mahni. This recording of the four horn concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the result of many years of work and was made in July ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
he Salzburg violinist Benjamin Schmid has been studying the violin works of W.A. Mozart for more than four decades now. He was initially influenced by the Mozarteum professors of the time, Sándor Végh and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and received numerous awards as his style of interpretation became increasingly personalised. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Flutist Ashley Solomon and Florilegium continue the Spohr Collection project with Volume 3. Ashley plays nine original exquisite 18th century flutes from Peter Spohr’s private collection, which can now be heard around the world for the first time. They are made from various materials including solid ivory, ebony and ivory, and boxwood ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), John Frederick Lampe (1702-1751), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Walter Clagget (1741-1798), Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784), Thomas Chilcot (1700-1766), Pietro Locatelli (1695-1764), Francesco Barsanti (1690-1772), Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667-1752)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Reflections - Works for solo Piano
I have always been fascinated by musical settings of literature. This is the background to this project. Transcriptions of literary or musical models are also a favourite topic of discussion with my concert audiences. ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Jörg Widmann (1973), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
From the mid-seventeenth century onwards, the overture became an orchestral piece intended to precede a large-scale dramatic work. This recording brings together twelve overtures from Mozart’s operas. They foreshadow the action, sometimes stylistically, sometimes by quoting themes that will appear later, ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
The Flute Quartet No. 4 in A major, K. 298, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is Mozart's final composition for flute quartet. Unlike the previous three quartets, written for the flutist Ferdinand De Jean, the Quartet in A is believed to have been written for recreational purposes, as opposed to on commission. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The pianist Andreas Eggertsberger, who studied in Austria and the USA with Karl Heinz Kammerling and Oleg Maisenberg, among others, deals with the late works of three composers on his new album "Spatlese" (Late Harvest): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms and Frederic Chopin. Whether a work is considered a late work has less to ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
»Exquisite Delight« awaits the listener on Viktor Töpelmann’s new solo album with viol music by Carl Friedrich Abel, Franz Xaver Hammer und Andreas Lidl. Virtuoso Allegros, sentimental Adagios and dancing Minuets come to life in Viktor Töpelmann’s interpretation of sonatas and solo music from this last bloom of ...
Composer: Franz Xaver Hammer (1741-1817), Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787), Andreas Lidl (1740-1789), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
