Finnish multi-talent: The young Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski gives a second preview of his upcoming album. Together with the Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, he presents three of Mozart's symphonies, with Symphony No. 36 forming the final piece on the album. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
The Australian Haydn Ensemble stands at the forefront of Australia’s historically informed orchestras. Comprised of world-class musicians on period instruments, AHE is deeply dedicated to historical research and authentic interpretation, preserving the legacy of Classical masters while captivating audiences with their ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
The pianist Martha Argerich gave her first concert at the age of four, performed with orchestras at the age of eight and has been regarded as one of the best pianists in the world since winning the competitions in Bolzano and Geneva at the age of 16 and the Chopin Competition eight years later. However, her fiery temperament on the ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Mozart & Poulenc: Double & Triple Piano Concertos
The pianists Mari Kodama, Momo Kodama, Karin Kei Nagano and conductor Kent Nagano present Double and Triple Piano Concertos by Mozart and Poulenc, together with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande on a new CD recording (Pentatone). Similar to Mozart’s own practice of making music with his family, the Nagano-Kodama family ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
“Mozart: Piano Works 1” is the first part in the 78-year-old musician’s Mozart trilogy project. Paik has never before recorded Mozart in his 68-year career. The studio album reflects “a child’s innocence,” Universal Music Group said in a press release. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Sweelinck, Mozart & Debussy: Live at the Royal Concertgebouw
Master pianist Nicolas van Poucke, called “a true poetic musician” by the Volkskrant, returns to the Small Hall with an eclectic program; Sweelinck, Mozart, and Debussy. Van Poucke opens with Sweelinck’s melancholy Variations on Mein Junges Leben hat ein End and from Debussy you will hear ...
Composer: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
In 2019, I began to think about making concept albums. Of all the ideas I developed, one of the most potent was that of collating works that we would like to listen to in the morning and evening. This was the sentiment behind the creation of the albums Morning and Evening. ...
Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788), Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772), Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Fazil Say (1970), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
A mysterious opera, an historical piano, two singers, and four instrumentalists. Ensemble Hexameron presents a rich variety of instrumental and vocal music, thus painting a musical portrait of Paris at the dawn of the nineteenth century; a time when different cultures and ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith (1746-1820), Francois Devienne (1759-1803), Jean-Louis Duport (1749-1819), Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816), Felice Blangini (1781-1841), Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold (1791-1833), Pierre-Jean Garat (1762-1823), Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Franz Xaver Mozart: The Two Piano Concertos
With this second recording of piano concertos - following the Variations in 2021 - I am extending my Franz Xaver Mozart project. Already at an early stage in my career as a pianist, I felt a special connection to the compositions of Franz Xaver Mozart. It was his 1st Piano Concerto that I ...
Composer: Franz Xaver Mozart (1791-1844)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
It all started with Mozart. In fact, the day I was born - like Wolfgang Amadeus - on 27 January. When I was four years old, we were living in Rome at the time, I heard this melody in the stairwell that I couldn't get out of my head and therefore kept whistling to myself: it was from Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 1. I asked our neighbour, whose flat the ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The album is a collection of gems that consist only of award-winning works of Professional Music Recording Award of Japan ‒ the most prestigious professional musical recording award in Japan ‒ and is a portfolio released by UNAMAS, the music label which has been releasing high quality works since 2007. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
"Bravo Mozart!" exclaimed Emperor Joseph II as he stood up and tipped his hat at the end of the first performance of Piano Concerto No. 18 KV 456 , played by Mozart himself on 30 September 1784. For years, historical speculation was that Mozart had written this concerto for Maria Theresia von Paradis, based on a letter written around that time by Leopold Mozart to his daughter Nannerl. However, Hermann Ullrich has discounted this theory, ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
W. A. Mozart: Symphonies 34, 35 and 36
Although Mozart composed them in his early twenties, the three symphonies presented here can in no way be regarded as early works. Written around the time of his departure from Salzburg for Vienna, these symphonies show that Mozart could deliver attractive, varied, orchestrally colourful and characterful ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
During his travels, Mozart often needed new pieces: in Mannheim, for example, he composed the Sonata in C major for the thirteen-year-old Rosa Cannabich, and later, in Linz, the Sonata in B flat, presumably as a concert piece for himself. These two brilliant sonatas are plaved here on an original fortepiano of ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
‘Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy!’ This is the title that the South African soprano Golda Schultz has decided to give to her new album, devoted to the female heroines of Don Giovanni , Così fan tutte and Le nozze di Figaro , roles that have marked her career from Berlin to The Metropolitan Opera: ‘Why does Mozart ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Breathtaking and dewy: Richard Strauss believed he could hear "revelations of the innermost soul of the world" in the melodies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The late Romantic composer was one of Mozart's greatest admirers throughout his life. And if you listen closely, you can also hear Mozartian lightness in Richard Strauss' music. On her album Mozart - ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Hidden Voices, Mozart Piano Sonatas, Volume IV
“Having listened for over half a century to tens of thousands of recordings of Mozart’s music be it piano music, string quartets, symphonies, operas, et al. I have been hugely energised by these recordings not because they are so great, but because they are usually so terrible! ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Hidden Voices, Mozart Piano Sonatas, Volume III
"Having listened for over half a century to tens of thousands of recordings of Mozart’s music, be it piano music, string quartets, symphonies, operas, et al, I have been hugely energized by these recordings. Not because they are so great, but because they are often so terrible! ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart Piano Concertos 11, 12, & 13
The three concertos featured on this album were composed together in 1782 / 83 – shortly after Mozart had left his patron and position in Salzburg to establish himself as a freelance composer and performer in Vienna. The concertos were all performed by the composer in a series of subscription concerts that he gave in the city. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
The First Vienna Concertos | Piano Concertos Nos. 11-12-13
Concertos No. 11, 12, and 13 were Mozart’s first Concertos written upon moving to Vienna from Salzburg. In a letter addressed to his father Leopold, he described them as “a happy medium between too easy and too difficult; very brilliant, pleasing to the ear, and natural, without being vapid.” By then, Mozart ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
