The much anticipated second volume of Peter Donohoe’s complete survey of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas for SOMM Recordings focuses on three sonatas produced during the composer’s ill-fated journey to Paris in 1777. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 - Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20
Taken from the LPOs final concerts with the late Aldo Ciccolini (19252015), when he was in his mid-eighties, these performances were much praised at the time. Most notably for Ciccolinis soulful and sensitive interpretation that was illuminated from within and sounded fresh, spontaneous and heartfelt ...
Composer: Sergey Vassilievich Rachmaninov (1873-1943), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos, K. 365 & Piano Concerto No. 20, K. 466 (Remastered)
André Previn, the stunning conductor, great pianist and remarkable composer, has just passed away, on 28 February. “A Brilliant musician and gifted composer whose talents were endless” in the words of Itzhak Perlman, he left an extensive and versatile discography dominated by ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Mozart, Brahms & Mahler: Piano Quartets
The Skride Quartet was formed for a concert at Schubertiade Festival in 2016. Whilst maintaining their own high profile solo careers, their passion for chamber music unites the four of them. Within a short period of time they have grown into a close-knit chamber ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Gustav Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Cheerfulness and depth, youthful urgency and ageless serenity: all this is found not only in Mozart’s most famous works. We also encounter these astonishing contrasts at every turn in the enchanting duos presented by renowned violinist Annette Unger and her piano partner ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
While Paris slept, Notre-Dame's organist Olivier Latry recorded this musical celebration of well-known classics. An extraordinary sonic experience for the first time on HighResAudio. The famous organ of Notre-Dame de Paris is a brilliantly colourful instrument which in ...
Composer: Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart: Le Testament Symphonique
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Symphonic Testament: Following a long maturation process, Jordi Savall presents his interpretation of Mozart’s Last Three Symphonies. He has chosen - on this double album - to repeat the Symphony No. 40 twice, in order to underline the continuity existing ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 4
This third volume in the series from the electrifying combination of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Manchester Camerata under Gabor Takacs-Nagy explores the final two of the six piano concertos of the year 1784, on which Mozart staked his reputation as both a performer and ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Mozart & Stravinsky: Works for Violin & Piano
Esther Hoppe has built a name for herself in the last few years as a soloist and a chamber musician, with a reputation as a stylistically assured and accomplished violinist whose stupendous technique serves the purest music making. ...
Composer: Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mozart: Oboe Concerto K. 314 - J. Haydn: Sinfonia concertante, Hob. I:105
It all started at the end of a beautiful summer’s day in August 2010: the telephone rings, Lucas Macias Navarro, solo oboe of the Concertgebow Amsterdam, is on the line: “Hi Pat! Would you be interested in recording Mozart’s Oboe Concerto with the Mozart Orchestra, conducted by… Claudio Abbado?” ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Soloists of the New York Philharmonic
The New York Philharmonic’s fourth album on Decca Gold, Universal Music Group’s newly established US classical music label, will be released digitally on May 17. Soloists of the New York Philharmonic features concertos performed by Principal musicians of the New York Philharmonic: ...
Composer: William Bolcom (1938), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Julia Adolphe, Samuel Barber (1910-1981), Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Acclaimed by the international music press as a ""virtuoso of astonishing brilliance"" and a ""thoroughly poetic artist"" (Dr Joachim Kaiser, Suddeutsche Zeitung). Luiza Borac has established herself as one of the most charismatic artists of her generation, here she performs Mozart in Love, ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
It was in 1774 that Joseph Haydn had his first set of solo keyboard sonatas published and that Mozart first tackled the genre. The five sonatas presented here all date from 1773-1783, a decade that saw the fortepiano swiftly become the preferred medium for a new style of keyboard writing, to the detriment ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
In recent years, Esther Hoppe has established herself as a stylistically confident, virtuosic violinist in both the solo and chamber music repertoires – someone who always places her stupendous technique at the service of the music. After studying with Thomas Füri at the ...
Composer: Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
They were both just twenty years young and always good for a musical laugh when they composed the serenades we have recorded on this CD. One of them, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, wrote his “Haffner Serenade” KV 250 for Sigmund Haffner d. J., who had commissioned him ...
Composer: Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
"For me, Mozart’s music is timeless and not linked to any specific instrument. It communicates a sense of pure joy, a lightness based on depth, a feeling of unbridled singing. It evokes images of an exuberant child dancing across a meadow. That’s Mozart’s spirit for me: an unconditional devotion to life, a love for reality, acceptance and ultimately reconciliation."
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
The three brothers Mark, Erik and Ken Schumann, who grew up in the Rhineland, have been playing together for five years. In 2012, they were joined by violist Liisa Randalu, who was born in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, and grew up in Karlsruhe, Germany. Those who experience the quartet in performance often remark on the strong connection between its members. ...
Composer: George Gershwin (1898-1937), Leos Janacek (1854-1928), Anton Webern (1883-1945), Dmitri Schostakowitsch (1906-1975), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mozart: Piano Sonatas K280, K281, K310 & K333
After a cycle of Beethoven Piano Concertos, solo albums of works by Bach and Schubert in addition to a number of award-winning recordings of piano chamber music on Ondine label, pianist Lars Vogt releases an album of Piano Sonatas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). In this album, two baroque-influenced and ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Korngold & Mozart: Violin Concertos
Sponsored by the Pro Scientia et Arte Foundation and the Friends of the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad. One of the main goals of the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad has always been to give young talents a chance, to help and guide them, reason for which, from the very start, the festival included ...
Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Walewein Witten: Piano Sonatas by Haydn, Mozart & Beethoven
Berlin-based Dutch keyboardist Walewein Witten makes his Resonus Classics debut with this programme of piano sonatas from the golden period of the fortepiano in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century. ...
Composer: Joseph Hadyn, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
