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Zauberoper

Following his acclaimed first recording for Alpha Classics, Saga, the German baritone Konstantin Krimmel continues to tell us stories, with a programme focusing on Zauberoper or "magic opera". Accompanied by the Hofkapelle München orchestra conducted by Rüdiger Lotter, Krimmel explores operas by Mozart, ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Antonio Salieri 1750-1825), Peter von Winter (1754-1825), Paul Wranitzky (1756-1808)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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La harpe á Paris

Paris - the city of many dreams and promises - has a special ring to the ears of harpists. In hardly any other place in the world was so much music played with the instrument, so many compositions were written for it and the harp was so popular. It is not for nothing that all the great works for harp and orchestra collected on this album ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775-1834), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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Mozart: Chamber Music with Clarinet

Clarinet player Eddy Vanoosthuyse is joined by the renowned Czech Zemlinsky Quartet exhibiting a refreshing point of view on Mozart's repertoire for clarinet and string ensemble. All things Mozart have been said and done, you'd think. Well, nothing could be further from the truth. ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Mozart: Concertos for Flute and Orchestra

If Mozart gave the concerto of his time its ultimate shape, it is because he transferred to it all the characteristics of the opera aria, giving the cantabile – which he often mentions in his correspondence – most significant importance and transforming the vocal virtuosic runs instrumental figurations. ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 1, 28 & 41

The series of Mozart symphonies, recorded by Johannes Klumpp with "his" Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen at GENUIN, enters the second round. The tradition-steeped orchestra now juxtaposes the first and last symphonies of the Viennese composer of choice: Early and late works in direct comparison, the alpha and omega of Mozart's ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Orchestral

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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23, Symphony No. 40 & Don Giovanni Overture

Julien Chauvin meets up with one of the great harpsichordists and fortepianists of our time, Andreas Staier, who is a leading interpreter of the Mozart concertos. He presents us with his vision of the Piano Concerto no.23 and its famous Adagio, ‘one of the most heart-rending ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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Mozart: Clarinet Works

Raphaël Sévère releases a new album dedicated to Mozart's concerto and quintet, in collaboration with the Modigliani Quartet and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris conducted by Lars Vogt. “In the terrible period when we were all deprived of culture, Mozart’s music has really been ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Mozart: Haffner-Serenade KV 250 & Marsch KV 249

The serenade for orchestra in D major, K. 250 (248b), popularly known as the "Haffner Serenade", was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on the commission of Sigmund Haffner Junior in 1776. The serenade is undoubtedly a jewel among Mozart's Salzburg compositions. ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Orchestral

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Mozart à l'opéra

The voice! The voice which, even if absent from the score, insinuates itself between the two hands of a pianist playing Mozart. In this music, all is dialogue, mingled avowals and passions, on the threshold of the opera house. All Mozart’s forms are nurtured by the same ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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Mozart: The Late Viennese Violin Sonatas

Violinist by profession, the Japanese-born Viennese musician Tomoko Mayeda also learned to play the piano from the age of four. Her teacher and mentor Paul Badura-Skoda often took the time to teach her at the piano in addition to his support as a pianistic accompanist at ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Piano Sonatas

The first complete recording of W.A. Mozart’s piano sonatas on the composer’s own fortepiano, performed by American pianist and Mozart-scholar Robert Levin. This comprehensive, 7-album-set also comprises unfinished fragments by the Austrian composer, here completed by Levin ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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Maestrino Mozart

For her second collaboration on the ATMA Classique label, Québec soprano Marie-Eve Munger presents a program devoted exclusively to operatic repertoire by the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who composed these rarely heard arias between the ages of 10 and 16. Though often ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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Arrangements or Transfigurations

Whether merely copying, or else adapting, transcribing (for piano), changing key, style, instrumentation or orchestration – musical arrangement is common outside the world of classical music. Here is a world premiere by contemporary Czech composer Kryštof Martaka, whose string quartet arrangement ...

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), Leoš Janáček (1854-1928)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 – K. 284, 309, 310 & 311

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, ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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Mozart: Divertimento & Preludes and Fugues for String Trio

This release highlights some of Mozart’s lesser-known works, all for string trio: the Divertimento in E flat major, KV 563 and two of the Fugues with slow Preludes from the set of six, KV 404a (after Bach). The Divertimento, KV 563 is not only Mozart’s sole large-scale composition for string trio, it is ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Mozart y Mambo: Cuban Dances

Diesen Monat geht für viele Musikliebhaber und Fans von Sarah Willis ein seit Sommer 2020 gehegter Wunsch in Erfüllung: Nach dem phänomenalen Erfolg des ersten Mozart y Mambo-Albums auf ALPHA CLASSICS kehrte die bekannte britische Hornistin nach Kuba zurück, um nicht nur zwei weitere Mozart-Hornkonzerte (die ... Following the phenomenal success of the first Mozart y Mambo album, Sarah Willis returns to Cuba not only to record two more Mozart horn concertos but also to create a landmark original work that takes its place in Cuban music history. In Mozart y Mambo - Cuban Dances , Sarah commissions the very first Cuban horn concerto ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Maria Teresa Vera (1895-1965), Manuel Egües (1657-1729), Edgar Olivero (1985)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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Mozart Violin Concertos, Vol. 2

Following their critically acclaimed first volume of Mozart’s violin concertos (CHAN 20234), Francesca Dego and Sir Roger Norrington complete the set, once again with outstanding support from a reduced Royal Scottish National Orchestra. This cycle not only represents the first time Sir Roger has recorded these concertos, but ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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Mozart Piano Concertos K. 271 & 456

Two women are at the origin of the concertos that Kristian Bezuidenhout proposes to hear here. The "Jeunehomme", a musical vessel of rather unexpected audacity, is named after the virtuoso Louise Victoire Jenamy, daughter of the dancer Noverre, an old friend of Mozart's to whom he dedicated the work. ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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Mozart, Haydn & Krommer: Oboe Concertos

This album presents three of the best known and most performed oboe concertos in the instrument's repertoire. It is often said that the classical age is full of intrigue and mystery, and music history is no exception. However, time hides as much as it illuminates, and the old adage "Veritas filia Temporis" (Truth is the ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Franz Krommer (1759-1831)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 & Vol. 3

This is the second installment in Orli Shaham's complete Mozart sonatas cycle and follows her recording of the Mozart Violin Sonatas with brother, violinist Gil Shaham, and her acclaimed release of Mozart Piano Concertos, conducted by David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony. Mozart's singing line and it's translation to the piano ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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