“This time, I am not only an absolute musician, but also a poet”, wrote Dvořák regarding the Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85, his most extended cycle of lyric character pieces for piano. Concluded in April/ May 1889 at his summer residence in Vysoka, the Poetic Tone Pictures introduced a new tendency in Dvořák’s output: from then on, he started to ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Jill Crossland studied at Chethams School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music with Ryszard Bakst, and in Vienna with Paul Badura-Skoda and Sally Sargent. She performed the complete Well-tempered Clavier from memory as a student in Manchester and has always been closely associated with the work. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart, Schubert & Others: Piano Duets
This album follows Zala Kravos’ first album, recorded in 2017. This new project is based on the long-term collaboration between Zala Kravos and her brother Val as a piano duet. Since their youngest age, both pianists regularly perform together, also on the international scale. This album features a wide range of repertoires that ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Francoise Choveaux (1953), George Bizet (1838-1875)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4 - K. 394, 396, 397, 475, 457, 485 & 511
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Flanked by a spectacular cast featuring the role debuts of Nicky Spence (named ‘Personality of the Year’ by BBC Music Magazine in 2022) and Simona Šaturová, the conductor Ben Glassberg (Music Director of the Opéra de Rouen Normandie) once again demonstrates his Mozartian temperament. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Double Concertos
Capella Savaria has earned its fame as the first period- instrument chamber orchestra of Hungary. The ensemble’s objectives were, from the onset, to play baroque and classical music in an authentic way. This time they perform Mozart’s double concerto (including additions by Robert D. Levin) together with conductor ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
“My wish on this double album is to share and celebrate with you my own very personal Christmas, as I experienced it as a child. For me, as well as being the festival of love, Christmas also means magic, balm for the soul and a host of enchanting memories. Every year we celebrate this miraculous time once again with our families and children, pausing to reflect upon the original Christmas. ...
Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Mozart, Schumann & Others: Clarinet Trios
As core members of the ensemble Wigmore Soloists, Michael Collins, Isabelle van Keulen and Michael McHale present four works for clarinet trio composed over a period of some 130 years. Mozart’s Kegelstatt Trio was long believed to have been composed during a game of bowling. The writing is reminiscent of a conversation between three friends in which contrasts ...
Composer: Max Bruch (1838–1920), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791), Robert Schumann (1810–1856), Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
After their exciting interpretations of Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert, the Chiaroscuro Quartet now turns to Mozart’s Prussian Quartets, his last compositions for this formation. These quartets were written for Friedrich Wilhelm II, King of Prussia and amateur cellist, and offer that instrument an unusually prominent role. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 23 KV 488 & 24 KV 491
For the fourth volume in this collection dedicated to Mozart concertos by the younger generation of performers, the Orpheum Foundation and Alpha Classics present the Concertos nos. 23 and 24 (K488 & 491) performed by the British pianist Julian Trevelyan, who was awarded three prizes at the Géza Anda ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
On his first solo clavichord album, Alexander Gergelyfi creates an exceptionally colourful and at the same time sensual portrait of his home country Austria. Exquisite music from the 17th and 18th centuries is presented on what is probably the oldest surviving Austrian clavichord. The elegant "Admont" clavichord serves Alexander ...
Composer: Ferdinand Tobias Richter (1651-1711), Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), Paul Peuerl (1570-1625), Georg Muffat (1653-1704), Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741), Johann Jacob Froberger (1616-1667), Johann Michael Steinbacher (1710-1741), Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), Leopold Mozart (1719-1787), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Michael Haydn (1737-1806)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 11, K. 413, No. 12, K. 414 & No. 13, K. 415 "A Quattro"
This Viennese trilogy was neglected in the Romantic era then reduced to pianoforte chamber music under the Baroque revival. Often only KV 415 is played by C. Haskil, R. Serkin, A-B Michelangeli, M. Perahia, A. Schiff and M-J Pirès. Mozart produced scores with variable accompaniment back in 1781 to satisfy the Austrian ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Mozart, Weber, Strauss Piano Concertos (Remastered)
Friedrich Gulda was an unusual personality. His performing career spanned both classical and jazz, and as a teacher, he was a tremendous influence on many of the 20th Century's greatest pianists. A fine performer in his own right, Gulda gave his Carnegie Hall début at the age of 20, and is considered one of the most important interpreters of the postwar period. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826), Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Molieri: Mozart and Salieri Arias
Bass-baritone Adam Plachetka presents Molieri, a programme of opera arias by Mozart and Salieri, together with the Czech Ensemble Baroque under the baton of Roman Válek. Thanks to fictional works such as the film Amadeus, Antonio Salieri is often scapegoated as the man who allegedly caused Mozart’s untimely death out of professional envy. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 KV 218, Piano Concerto No. 6 KV 238 & Flute Concerto No. 1 KV 313
The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for over thirty years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a series of recordings devoted to Mozart’s concertos, regardless of instrument. The leading soloists of the young generation have been selected to appear under the artistic direction of Howard Griffiths, a ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Unfamiliar Mozart: Always curious about unjustly neglected repertoire, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas introduces us here to a Mozart we have not met. Above and beyond his church sonatas, works written on commission, pieces meant to showcase a vocalist or an instrument (such as the rarely heard glass harmonica) or as a mark of friendship with ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Mozart the Poet: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4
Michael Wessel is a professor for piano playing, song accompaniment and methodology at the University of Protestant Church Music in Bayreuth. He studied piano, composition, music theory and school music in four major courses at the music academies in Detmold and Stuttgart: piano with Hanns-Ulrich Kunze, Jürgen Uhde ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart: Sonatas for four hands
Thomas Beijer (1988) and Nicolas van Poucke (1992) belong to the top of a new generation of young pianists in the Netherlands. Both have won many prizes and performed both solo and with orchestras at important venues in the Netherlands and abroad. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 5 - K. 540, 494, 545, 570 & 576
Spanning the length of his mature career, Mozart's piano sonatas were written between 1774 and 1788, and occupy a fundamental position within the keyboard repertoire. The early sonatas were influenced by the so-called "style galant” of the Bach brothers Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel, though we hear clear references to some of the traits that characterized the keyboard music of earlier ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Beethoven-Liszt & Mozart-Alkan: Piano Transcriptions
This recording brings together two of the greatest works of the Classical era in transcriptions for solo piano by two of the greatest pianist-composers of the Romantic era, resulting in two of the most thrilling experiences that nineteenth-century pianism has to offer. ...
Composer: Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), Charles Alkan (1813-1888)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
