Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41
The eminent Swedish conductor Herbert Blomstedt, a close associate and regular guest conductor of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conduct the last two symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. For today’s musicologists, performers and concert-going audiences, Mozart’s final symphonies are still a veritable miracle. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (Remastered)
Karl Böhm and the Choir and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin perform "Le Nozze di Figaro" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Complete recording in Italian. With Hermann Prey, Edith Mathis, Gundula Janowitz, Tatiana Troyanos, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and others. A recording from 1968. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Mozart: String Quintets K. 515 & 516
Quatuor Ebène welcomes a favourite colleague, viola player Antoine Tamestit, for two of Mozart’s six string quintets – No 3 in C major, K 515 and No 4 in G minor, K 516. Their last joint album, ‘Round Midnight, won a 2022 Gramophone Award for its thrilling ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mozart & Widmann: Clarinet Quintets
Hardly any combination of instruments is more appealing than a string quartet and a clarinet; together they make a magical melange. The Hagen Quartet and Jörg Widmann have recorded Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, a "work among friends", in this irresistible blend. Jörg Widmann, clarinettist and composer in equal measure, ...
Composer: Jörg Widmann (1973), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Wolfang Amadeus Mozart & Franz Joseph Haydn (Remastered)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: In terms of the subtlety of many of the instrumental passages, the originality and perfection of form, and the intensity of its expressivity, the concerto in A major, written during the draught of “Figaro”, is one of the aristocrats among Mozart’s concertos, and is therefore set as a pinnacle of his ...
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Hidden Voices, Mozart Piano Sonatas, Volume II
"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 so terrible! ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart: Requiem - Paisiello: Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon
Le Requiem de Mozart n’est présenté à Paris qu’en 1804, dans une version légèrement différente de celle composée par Mozart. La presse se fait l’écho d’un triomphe. 1804 est aussi l’année du sacre de Napoléon : de ses conquêtes méditerranéennes, Bonaparte avait rapporté un goût prononcé pour la musique italienne. ...
Composer: Robert Nicholas Charles Bochsa (1789-1856), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), Giovanni Paisiello (1741-1816)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 & 25
If in my previous recording of Mozart Concertos I tried to say something valid and truthful, albeit sincere, with this album I wanted to simply be. For me, Mozart's Piano Concertos Nos. 24 and 25 are a testament to the beauty and imperfection of the human experience and about finding joy and meaning in the midst of pain and hardship. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Mozart, Händel, Bach (Remastered)
Mozart wrote the splendid Sinfonia Concertante K V 297b in l 778, during a stay in Paris. for a “Concert Spirituel” and it is without doubt the less known and the least damaged by questionable interpretations of the Sinfonie Concertanti. At this time in Paris. (as, indeed in Italy), there was a certain leaning towards the ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 7
Volume 7 of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s Mozart piano concertos survey with Gábor Takács-Nagy and the Manchester Camerata features two of the late concertos – Nos 24 and 25 – along with a spirited reading of the Overture to Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro). Concerto No. 24 was written whilst Mozart was busily composing Le nozze di Figaro, ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
By the mid-18th century Vienna had established itself as the center of European musical life, witnessing the development of the Classical style and then Romanticism. At the same time, the guitar was rapidly evolving and, in the absence of interesting original compositions, ...
Composer: Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart: Sonatas for Piano and Violin, Vol. 2
Recording Mozart's sonatas for violin and piano requires, however, intense preparation, detailed study of the stylistic peculiarities, besides, unquestionably, a solid experience and artistic maturity of the musicians. These are qualities that the duo, who are internationally recognized musicians, are not lacking. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mozart’s divertimenti, cassations, serenades (‘evening music’), night music and other ‘gallant’ works are compositions comprising four to seven movements (Gran Partita K. 361), which respect the sonata form in the opening and closing movements and were intended for various circumstances of social and worldly life. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
For many years, star cellist and OPUS KLASSIK prizewinner Raphaela Gromes has championed works by women composers. Three of her albums, which have been highly praised by the press and the public, have featured music by unknown female composers, and she has a long-standing collaboration with the "Frau und Musik" archive in Frankfurt. ...
Composer: Maria Antonia Walpurgis (1724-1780), Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Clara Schumann (1819-1896), Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821-1910), Matilde Capuis (1913-2017), Victoria Yagling (1946-2011), Florence Price (1887-1953), Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979), Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mozart: The Beginning & The End
Maxim Emelyanychev's Mozart affinity is well known, especially when it comes to the piano works: in 2018, the conductor and pianist treated his audience to a sonata recording that demonstrated his virtuosity and musicality - and his remarkable understanding of the composer's music. The approach of the new, long-term project with the Il ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Early String Quartets
In a letter dated 28 October 1772, Leopold Mozart wrote: “At this very moment, to relieve his boredom, our son is in the process of writing a ‘quatro’”. In fact, when the young Wolfgang Amadeus ‘amused’ himself by composing what we now call his first 13 quartets, from 1770 to 1773, a period during which he made three trips to Italy and one to Vienna, ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
SOMM Recordings’ acclaimed survey of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas by Peter Donohoe reaches its end with Volume 6 featuring four works illustrating the composer’s endless fascination and creative invention with the piano. Mozart described the Piano Sonata No.16 (K.545) as “a little piano sonata for beginners”. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3-5
After Mozart’s youth symphonies, the Freiburger Barockorchester returns to the composer with a ‘portrait of the artist as a young man’: concertante music this time, with the last three violin concertos, composed when he was twenty years old. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Neeme Järvi in concert: Mozart, Wagner, Brahms & Reger
The legendary conductor Neeme Järvi celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday in the summer of 2022, in Tallinn, giving a series of concerts with his beloved Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. This album serves not just as a commemoration of those wonderful concerts, but also as a personal calling card for ...
Composer: Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Max Reger (1873-1916), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Hidden Voices, Mozart Piano Sonatas, Volume I
"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 so terrible!...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
