Martha Argerich was a child prodigy, beginning lessons at the age of three with Ernestine C. de Kussrow. Between the ages of five and ten she learnt with Vincent Scaramuzza, making her orchestral debut at the age of nine with Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D minor K. 466, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 Op. 15 and Bach’s French Suite No. 5 in G major BWV 816. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
On these two albums the Salzburg Wind Philharmonic with its principal conductor Hansjörg Angerer presents symphonic wind music of the highest sophistication – largely pieces well known from the usual symphonic concert repertoire. The extraordinary range of works extends from Mozart’s Abduction ...
Composer: Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Julius Fucik (1872-1916), Gustav Holst (1874-1934), Ernst Ludwig Leitner (1943), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826), Johann Strauss II (1825-1899), Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868), Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Josef Strauss (1827-1870)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Mozart String Quartets K. 499 "Hoffmeister", Divertimenti K. 136, 137 & 138
The Engegard Quartet presents their beautiful album, featuring Mozart's String Quartet K. 499, known as the "Hoffmeister," alongside his delightful Divertimenti K. 136, 137, and 138. This release captures the quartet's signature blend of precision and passion, bringing these beloved ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mendelssohn, Bach, Mozart (The Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series)
For her first album on Linn, Jasmin Iris Ghera embarks on a captivating journey through timeless masterpieces reimagined for trumpet and piano. From Mendelssohn’s powerful Cello Sonata No. 2 to Mozart’s vibrant Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, by way of Bach’s Siciliano from his Flute Sonata BWV 1031, the programme sheds new light on these ...
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Every era has its fashion, be it in clothing, architecture, painting or music. Certain instruments were sometimes more or less "en vogue". In the classical period, the French or hunting horn in particular was extremely important to composers, especially in German-speaking countries. The first "professional" horn ...
Composer: Antonio Rosetti (1750-1792), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Leopold Mozart (1719-1787), Heinrich Simrock (1754-1839), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622
Sabine Meyer is one of today’s most renowned instrumental soloists, and has made a major contribution to the international fame of the clarinet. Mozart's Clarinet Concerto is ‘the finest work ever written for a wind instrument’, she says: ‘beside it, everything else takes a back seat’. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 459 & 488
If the Piano Concertos Nos.19 and 23 are among the most famous in the corpus, it is of course because of their sublime middle movements, but also because they reach the very heights of Mozartian subtlety in terms of orchestration, thematic development and dramatic instinct. The historically informed performances from Kristian Bezuidenhout and Freiburger ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
For his new album ‘Trumpet Consort’, renowned trumpeter Matthias Höfs has brought together a whole two dozen trumpet players. In addition to current students of his trumpet class at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre, they include ...
Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893), Stanley Myers (1930-1993), Erik Morales (1966), Fred E. Ahlert (1892-1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
As it celebrates its 40th anniversary, the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie looks across the Alps, paying tribute to the composer most closely associated with its history: Mozart. The programme focuses on three cities that marked the composer's life: Salzburg, his birthplace surrounded by mountains and the birthplace of the gallant and joyous ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Mozart: Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, K. 35
The young Wolfgang, aged only 10, composed the oratorio Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots (The Duty of the First Commandment) in 1767 on his return to Salzburg after a fabulous tour of Europe with his father Leopold and his sister. Its rich and varied orchestration reveals Mozart's precocious talent in using instrumentation to enrich the musical ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Fantastic worlds – Organ transformations – Bach organ Regensburg
Imagination is a special human gift. Fantasizing about things and making up stories is the basic requirement for all art. The words ‘fantasy’ and ‘fantastic’ have positive connotations today, but that wasn‘t always the case. “Fantastic” in the sense of imagined, invented, without plan or purpose was not reconcilable with the regularity ...
Composer: Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Alexandre-Pierre-Francois Boely (1785-1858), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Max Reger (1873-1916), Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Horn Universe – Works for Horn, Tenor and Orchestra
Although nameless, the Suite in F Major TWV 44:7/55:F4 by Telemann is extremely pictorial: In the early 18th century, the horn is still somewhat new as an ensemble music instrument, and it serves to evoke the rural. This piece takes us outdoors. Like any French-style suite, it begins with a slow and majestic Overture, almost celestial [...] ...
Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Valeri Kikta (1941)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Kun-Woo Paik's 'Mozart: Piano Works 2' is the second album in a trilogy of Mozart recordings, marking the first time he has released a Mozart recording in his 68-year piano career. In addition to the familiar Piano Sonatas No. 2 and No. 10, the album includes the Fantasia in D minor, the March in C major, and the Andante in F major for organ, often considered Mozart's final work. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Hidden Voices, Mozart Piano Sonatas, Volume V
Mozart was born at the close of the baroque era, so it seems only natural to consider his music in a more contrapuntal light. Yes, he did not grow up to be a late-baroque composer, though loved improvising fugues. He composed a Praeludium and Fugue in C (K394), plus the first three movements of a baroque suite also in C (K399). Late-baroque techniques and ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36 & Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385 “Haffner”
It is fascinating to trace the gradual process by which the young Beethoven found his personal voice as a composer. The so-called “heroic” style, in which many see the “quintessential” Beethoven, may have been born with the Third Symphony, the Eroica. But this style was not born overnight. Already in the First Symphony (1799-1800), there are signs of a new musical ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
After Alec Frank-Gemmill's critically acclaimed recordings of nineteenth-century works for horn and piano, chamber music by Brahms and pre-Mozart horn concertos, a version of Mozart's famous horn concertos from him has been eagerly awaited. As on his disc of concertante works, he is accompanied here by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
On the advice of his father, the young Mozart, 21 years old, went with his mother to Mannheim in 1777. This city at the time was one of the most famous European musical capitals. There were outstanding instrumentalists, patrons, an extraordinary orchestra, everything the young composer needed to expand his ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
This concert recording from Mozart Week 2024 focuses on the horn quintets of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Anton Reicha, two major works representing a genre that has rarely been explored. After the Prague-born composer, music theorist and pedagogue Anton Reicha briefly tried to establish himself in Paris in 1799, he finally settled in the ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
1st piccolo version of these works for flute and orchestra by Mozart. The piccolo interpretation and the quality of the recording give a particularly interesting sound. The purity of the solo part is brought out by the interpretation of Jean-Louis Beaumadier, recognised as one of the best piccolo players in the world, if not the ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23
For her tenth album on Sony Classical, Khatia Buniatishvili joins an iconic orchestra in performances of two cherished piano concertos by Mozart, her first-ever album dedicated to the composer. Available for preorder now, the new recording will be released on October 25, 2024. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
