The Alexander String Quartet turns its attention to Mozart's last years, beginning with this recording of the final four quartets (the first of a three-volume set which will add his other great chamber works from that period). Eric Bromberger's liner notes are prefaced by comments ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mozart, Winter, Hummel & Rossini: Bassoon Concertos
As an instrument, the bassoon has had a remarkable history. Beginning with its Renaissance ancestry as the dulcian, it developed during the Baroque period into an almost indispensable part of the ensemble. Antonio Vivaldi recognized the versatility of the bassoon early on, composing no fewer than 39 concertos for it. ...
Composer: Peter von Winter (1754-1825), Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Turning away from the relentless control of daylight, poets have sought spiritual and poetic inspiration in the sublime darkness of mystery-inducing night. Klara Min’s album presents us with piano pieces intimating this ‘dark but dazzling’ night. Its title, “Evocation,” suggests night’s ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Olivier Messiaen (1930), Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart’s early bassoon concerto KV 191 is one of the best known of its kind, offering the soloist a lot of opportunities to show off their virtuoso skills effectively. Together with the popular Piano Concerto KV 467, the soloists and the argovia philharmonic present themselves as ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
At the tender age of nine, Felix Klieser dreamed of being able to play Mozart's horn concertos. Today, 18 years later, that dream has finally come true and Felix Klieser now performs on the world's foremost concert stages, playing the very works which are part of any horn player's core repertoire. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
This is an attractive album. Helene Wold and Vegard Lund have programmed a recording that might duplicate a recital where the singer occasionally takes a break and gives the guitarist a moment to shine. Nine of the 22 selections here are for guitar alone (the most impressive being ...
Composer: Ludwig Spohr, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791), Franz Schubert (1810–1856), Anton Diabelli, Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856), Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Great Operatic Arias (Sung in English), Vol. 11 - Elizabeth Futtal
I first encountered Elizabeth Futral as Tytania at Opera Theatre of St Louis in 1986 and was entranced, not only by her slinkily sexy presence, but by her silvery, crystalline high soprano. Seventeen years on, the timbre of her voice has hardly changed and although she is ...
Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759), Gaetano Donizetti , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vincenzo Bellini, Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), Charles Gounod (1818 – 1893), Léo Delibes (1836-1891), Carlisle Floyd, Jacques Offenbach
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Mozart+ is an exceptional selection of some of the most beautiful concert and opera arias by W.A. Mozart as well as discoveries of largely unknown arias from operas by Tommaso Traetta, Giovanni Paisiello and Vicente Martín y Soler, reflecting the exchange of musical ideas between ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41 (Live)
Considered to be the highest triumph of instrumental composition in his own day, Mozart’s final symphonies continue to sweep audiences away. From the famous G-minor opening movement of the 40th symphony that cuts straight to the chase to the unprecedented complexity of the 41st ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Vienna, winter of 1798. Two titans of the musical world encountered each other in a one of a kind duel. A musical trial of strength in front of a select audience, the objective of which was to choose the winner by the intensity of the applause. The suitable stage ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Wölfl
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 13-18
Roberto Prosseda closes the Mozart sonatas series with not equal tuning. Is there really any need for yet another recording of Mozart’s sonatas? Is it still possible to say something new when playing these compositions while maintaining respect for the score and for the composer’s ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart: The Magic Flute Overture, Clarinet Concerto & Clarinet Quintet
Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra (Junge Philharmonie Köln) and their conductor Volker Hartung are dedicated to a wide range of well-known and unknown masterpieces from the baroque to the modern period classical music, from Monteverdi to Lutoslawski. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Mozart Chamber Music for Winds and Strings
BSO principal players bring their skill and musicianship as individual performers together for this masterful set of Mozart chamber music. Rich sonorous strings and clear full winds fill this recording with expressive weight and gorgeous sound. This is passionate and intelligent playing ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mozart Symphonies: 14, 18, 20, 39 & 41
This recording tracks the creative evolution of Mozart through a series of five influential symphonies. The first three pieces, Symphonies 14, 18, and 20, were written when Mozart was only fifteen and sixteen years old. Symphonies Nos. 39 and 41, were composed in a whirlwind of creative fervor in a few weeks' time in the summer of 1788, and each is distinctly unique. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Mozart: Divertimento, K. 563 & Horn Quintet, K. 407
For their debut recording, the Kreisler Trio Wien have chosen Mozart's monumental and much-loved Divertimento in E-flat major, and - together with the Vienna Philharmonic's principal hornist Wolfgang Vladar - the horn quintet. In 2017 the Kreisler Trio Wien celebrated its 10-year ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mozart & Brahms (Clarinet Quintets)
"This is music for friends, and these Oslo musicians clearly enjoy playing together; the string quartet members seem especially well matched. In both works Leif Arne Pedersen chooses largely to eschew the vibrato of older recordings (and, apparently, of Brahms’s clarinettist, Richard ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 413, K. 414 & K. 415
This recording from the Kuijken family, renowned world-wide as early music specialists, presents Mozart's Piano Concertos K. 413, 414 & 415 in the composer's versions for fortepiano and string quartet. It's a new, exciting instalment in the rich discography of one of the greatest Aufführungspraxis scholars. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
Trumpet and organ has us immediately thinking of trumpet tunes and trumpet voluntaries, of majestic, bombastic music by Henry Purcell and George Frideric Handel, of mixtures and reed stops that resound so strongly as to make church walls tremble. The music on this CD does not adhere to those ...
Composer: Johann Wilhelm Hertel, Hans Jürg Bättig & Immanuel Richter, Luigi Otto, Leopold Mozart, Michael Haydn
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Modigliani, one of the greatest portrait painters, is the inspiration for this journey made up of pieces with unique characters. Designed as a portrait gallery, this new opus brings together masterpieces and discoveries. The look or hear the ear, linger on the curves, the lines, the singular melodic drawing of each of these partitions. ...
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1934), Giacomo Puccini, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Fritz Kreisler, Samuel Barber (1910-1981), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Alexander Borodin, Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), Anton Webern (1883–1945), Roman Hoffstetter, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791), Leroy Anderson (1908-1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
SOMM Recordings announces the launch of a major new series surveying Mozarts complete Piano Sonatas featuring the acclaimed 'lion of the keyboard' Peter Donohoe in his highly-anticipated first-ever recordings of the composers solo piano works.he landmark six-volume series launches with two early ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
