Mozart: Mitridate, rè di Ponto
Mozart was just 14 years old when he composed Mitridate, re di Ponto for performance in Milan. An opera seria set in ancient times, it boasts a sequence of spectacular arias for its cast of strongly contrasting characters. At the centre of the action is Mitridate himself – the historical Mithridatus, King of Pontus, ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
As a special, connecting and autobiographical element for this recording, the beautiful city of Salzburg is a legendary and inspiring place, deeply influenced by music history, which everyone involved in the production - from the composer, the conductor, the soloist to the orchestra musicians and the orchestra attendant ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis" (Completed by F.X. Süßmayr) [Live]
It is difficult to say anything about Mozart's famous Requiem – the masterpiece having been described and analysed all too often. It is known to almost everyone in the world, either in its entirety or in large parts, or is familiar to them at the very least from its title. Almost everybody has come into contact with the Requiem’s music, ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Mozart: Sonatas for Piano and Violin, Vol. 1
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mozart: Requiem, K. 626 (Remastered)
Nikolaus Harnoncourt describes Mozart’s Requiem as “an intensely personal confrontation, frightening and moving in the case of a composer who normally kept his life and experience divorced from his art to an astonishing degree”. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 38 & 39
Expansive Symphonies played with energy and urgency: The NDR Philharmonie and Andrew Manze continue their exploration of Mozart’s late orchestral works with a recording of the composers 38th and 39th symphonies. Nicknamed after Prague, where it was first performed in 1787, the 38th shares with its successor a solemn, ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
The Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak needs no introduction. After having dazzled the opera stage and the discographic world both in duets and solo, she has devoted the whole of her new recording to Mozart. From The Magic Flute to Zaide, Mitridate and La Clemenza di Tito, the soprano embraces with equal talent the ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3, Symphony 'Jupiter', Le nozze di Figaro Overture
Julien Chauvin and Le Concert de la Loge join Alpha and launch a new cycle devoted to Mozart. This project is a natural continuation of Julien Chauvin’s work of rediscovery focusing on the interpretation of the music of Haydn and his contemporaries in Paris in the late eighteenth century. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
W.A. Mozart: Piano Sonatas Arranged for Guitar Duo
Although being technically very different instruments, we are convinced that the romantic guitar and the fortepiano share the same aesthetics. This was proven to us for the first time when we finally recorded our Schubert album ‘A Sentimental Moment’ in 2018, with piano works arranged for our Viennese guitars. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
This album was recorded between 1 and 12 September 2019 at the historical site of Kasteel Amerongen (NL) and is a comprehensive document of selected keyboard music from the Christopher Hogwood collection. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The first joint album from countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and guitarist Thibaut Garcia, À sa guitare takes its name from a song by the 20th century French composer Francis Poulenc. But its frame of reference is extraordinarily wide – both culturally and stylistically. Its 22 tracks range across 400 years ...
Composer: John Dowland (1562-1626), Giuseppe Giordani (1751-1798), Francesca Caccini (1587-1640), Enrique Granados (1867-1916), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Luiz Bonfa (1922-2001), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Ariel Ramirez (1921-2010), Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Mozart: Works for Violin & Orchestra
After having recorded Mozart’s last three violin concertos in 2014, Arabella Steinbacher, the Festival Strings Lucerne and its leader Daniel Dodds now complete the cycle by presenting Mozart’s less well-known, but equally enchanting Violin Concertos 1 & 2, together with his Adagio in E Major and Rondos in C Major ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Hoffmeister, Stamitz & Mozart: Classical Viola Concertos
A mere dozen or so printed viola concertos are known of from the Viennese Classical era, contrasting with countless violin, cello, and flute concertos. There can be only one explanation for this: there were relatively few players available of truly virtuoso ability. Alongside two emblematic viola ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791), Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754-1812), Carl Philipp Stamitz (1745-1801)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Parallels : Masternak, Danczowska
We know the violinist Oriana Masternak from the composition of the excellent formation Messages Quartet, existing since 2014, specializing in performing less popularized works by Polish composers and discovering them for a wider audience. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Jozef Elsner (1769-1854), Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937), Alexander Tansman (1897-1986)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
When in December 1812 the French violinist Pierre Rode (1774–1830) first visited Vienna, Beethoven wrote a work for Rode’s appearance before the “Associated Cavaliers” in the Palais Lobkowitz, his Violin Sonata op. 96, which received its premiere with Archduke Rudolph at the clavier: Beethoven, lover of humanity and advocate ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mozart: Serenade, K. 361 "Gran partita" & Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525
When Mozart took up the popular genre of the serenade, it was to transcend it and lend it new lustre. A festive masterpiece of simplicity and emotion, his Gran Partita quickly became a genuine ‘hit’! Thanks to the distinctive, spellbinding timbres of their period instruments, the members of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
An album with a mission to defy classification, BariTenor is a tour de force for Michael Spyres. It ranges wide, encompassing repertoire normally assigned to both tenors and baritones. Programming 18 arias by 15 composers, it covers three centuries of opera in Italian, French and German, ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), Etienne Nicolas Méhul (1763-1817), Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851), Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868), Adolphe Adam (1803-1856), Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848), Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901), Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896), Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Franz Lehar (1870-1948), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Carl Orff (1895-1982), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Besondere Raritäten sind auch hier die Spezialität von Reinhard Goebel. Das Violinkonzert KV 268, bisher nur eingespielt von Yehudi Menuhin und Mayumi Fujikawa, stammt wohl in der Hauptsache von Johann Friedrich Eck. Und die Bearbeitung der Gran Partita vom Münchner Hofkomponisten Franz Gleißner ist gar eine Weltersteinspielung. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Spätburgunder: Celebrating Orchestral Music
We propose a toast, as our Spätburgunder anniversary compilation brings you velvety elegance and distinctive, symphonic sounds of the orchestra, led by esteemed conductors such as Marek Janowski and Lawrence Foster. The music on our celebration of orchestral music is a hand-picked selection of ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1993), Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Compilations
Jeremy Denk is joined by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for two Mozart concertos—No. 25 in C Major, K. 503 and No. 20 in D minor, K. 466—bookending the composer’s solo Rondo in A minor, K. 511. The second movement from K. 466, the Romance, is available here, where the album also may be preordered. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
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