Mozart: Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 1
Praised by Gramophone as ‘one of the more original thinkers of his generation’, the Italian pianist Federico Colli is internationally recognised for his highly imaginative and philosophical interpretations and impeccable technique. This album is the first instalment of a new, intensely personal project for the pianist: an exploration of selected piano works by Mozart. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
This is a live recording of Josep Colom's concert at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid on 10 October 2018. The programme, designed to encourage an original way of listening to music, consists of a coherent sequence of individual movements or pieces. Together they form an uninterrupted whole that reveals analogies between Schubert and seven other composers. ...
Composer: Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Josep Colom (1947)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Following the tradition of Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951) and his society for private musical performances, all the pieces in this production were completely redesigned and masterfully arranged by the principal horn player of the Vienna Philharmonic, Josef Reif, in order to make them performable in a reduced formation and in smaller venues. ...
Composer: Georges Bizet (1838-1875), Léo Delibes (1836-1891), Franz Lehár (1870-1948), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Gioachino Rossinis (1792-1868), Robert Stolz (1880-1975), Johann Strauss (1804-1849), Josef Strauss (1827-1870)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Mozart: Coronation Mass, Ave Verum Corpus, Missa Brevis & Exsultate, Jubilate
On this album, the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge performs alongside four soloists and the period instrument ensemble St John’s Sinfonia. The tenor Sam Furness and bass George Humphreys both started their careers as Choral Scholars with this very choir. The mezzo-soprano Frances Bourne is in great demand on the concert platform and has sung with many of Europe’s leading ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
In 2007 Frank Peter Zimmermann was able to realize his long-cherished dream to establish a string trio, together with Antoine Tamestit and Christian Poltéra. Three individually superb string players do not necessarily add up to a top-flight trio – even if they all play on instruments by Stradivarius, as here – but Trio Zimmermann immediately made a ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
As a cellist, Jan Vogler is always on the lookout for interesting repertoire expansions for his instrument. After the world premiere recording of the "Three Continents" cello concerto written for him by three composers for his last album, Jan Vogler now lets his cello "sing" the "pop songs" of past centuries. His partners are the BBC ...
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-1787), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835), Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), Georges Bizet (1838-1875), Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Richard Wagner (1813-1883), George Gershwin (1989-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
French pianist Kim Barbier does not see herself to be a person or an artist who is restricted by borders, be they linguistic, cultural or geographical. On the contrary, despite training at the Paris Conservatoire, which gave her a special familiarity with French composers such as Debussy, Dutilleux, Fauré and Poulenc, her career has ....
Composer: Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Alexander Siloti (1863-1945), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Bruno Delepelaire
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Reinhard Goebel's album "New Mozart Vol. 2". World premiere of two recordings of fantasies based on Mozart's music. With New Mozart Vol. 2 the conductor REINHARD GOEBEL, the "tireless discoverer" (Rondo), shows once again the treasures that are still to be found in the musical ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
After her debut album impressions with chamber music works for bassoon and piano, bassoonist Sophie Dervaux presents two premieres on her second album for Berlin Classics: In addition to the world premiere recording of the Concerto No. 2 in C major for bassoon and orchestra by Johann Baptist Vanhal, she acted for this album not only as soloist ...
Composer: Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837), Johann Baptist (Jan Krtitel) Vanhal (1739-1813), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Acacia Quartet presents a program of quartets by Mozart, Dvorak, and Australian composer Alice Chance. This album presents a notable piece from each of the composers, encompassing 12 tracks played with the brilliance Acacia Quartet is known for. Enjoyable on every level. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Alice Chance (1994), Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Hailed as a “very accomplished and sensitive musician,” Mélisande McNabney returns with her latest album, Fantasias, performed on fortepiano. Fantasias includes works by Bach, Mozart, Koželuch, and two improvisations by McNabney herself after C.P.E. Bach. The album was recorded on a fortepiano made in 2019 by Rodney Regier, after an instrument by the 18th-century Viennese maker Anton Walter. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Mélisande McNabney, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Leopold Koželuch, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart: Violin Sonata No. 21 in E Minor, K. 304 (Arr. for Flute & Piano)
Flautist Ana de la Vega’s fourth PENTATONE album My Paris is a declaration of love to the glorious French capital and its rich flute history, as well as a trip down memory lane, featuring some of the greatest gems of French music history, including works by Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Massenet, Saint-Saëns, Satie, Poulenc, Mozart, ...
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759-1824), Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), Lili Boulanger (1893-1918), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Erik Satie (1866-1925), Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
For six-time Gramophone Award-winner Leif Ove Andsnes, May 28 marks the release of MM/1785 by Sony Classical. The first volume of Mozart Momentum 1785/1786, his second project as the inaugural Artistic Partner of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (MCO), the new album explores one of the most creative and seminal periods of the composer’s career. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Rachel Willis-Sørensen's voice combines dramatic expressiveness and vocal brilliance in arias, as in the album's Verdi scenes with weighty roles such as Desdemona in Otello, Leonora in Il Trovatore and Violetta in La Traviata, with dazzlingly bright sound in works such as the "Vilja-Lied" from Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow and the "Song ...
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904), Franz Lehar (1870-1948)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
For this program, Duo Diversitas has selected or created sophisticated arrangements that embody virtuosity and musical expression. In focusing on great composers of the 18th and 19th centuries, Marisa Minder and Evgeniya Spalinger explore the artistic refinement, lyrical grace and technical sophistication of the guitar and flute. The one original work for this combination is Hans Haug's ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893), Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), Hans Haug (1900-1967)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart & Birchall: Clarinet Concertos
The two concertos performed here by Michael Collins and the Philharmonia Orchestra were both intended for a specific player – Mozart composed his for Anton Stadler and Richard Birchall for Michael Collins himself. Both works – as well as Mozart's Clarinet Quintet – were also written for a particular instrument: ...
Composer: Richard Birchall (1981), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
On her second PENTATONE album FLOW, Annelien Van Wauwe presents a programme inspired by her love for yoga, combining Mozart’s famous Clarinet Concerto with the world premiere recording of Wim Henderickx’s concerto SUTRA. Van Wauwe performs both works on the characteristic basset clarinet, together with the ...
Composer: Wim Henderickx (1962), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Mozart & Haydn for Horn & String Quartet
The paths of the soloist can often be lonely, especially for one of the most outstanding instrumental soloists like Felix Klieser. All the greater is the joy when closer artistic and human connections are formed through many years of playing together. Felix Klieser's concerts with the Prague based Zemlinsky Quartet are therefore his favourite ...
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Resurrexi!: Easter in Vienna with Mozart & the Haydn Brothers
CRD Records are delighted to announce the release of Resurrexi! Easter in Vienna with Mozart and the Haydn Brothers on 1 April 2022. Recorded with the The Choir of Keble College Oxford and Instruments of Time & Truth, the album is conducted by Paul Brough. Resurrexi! is CRD’s third album with Keble, following Ceremonial Oxford (2017) and Ave Rex Angelorum (2020). ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22, K. 482 & No.23, K. 488
Described by BBC Music Magazine as ‘Mozart music-making of altogether superior quality’, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s acclaimed Mozart Concertos series reaches Vol. 6. Along with Concerto No. 24, K. 491, the two concertos presented here were composed in Vienna in the winter of 1785 – 86, at a time when Mozart was working on Le nozze di Figaro. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
