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Maurizio Pollini, Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 19 (1976/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 55:10 minutes | 1,82 GB | Genre: Classical
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On his first concerto disc for Deutsche Grammophon and his first devoted to works by Mozart, Maurizio Pollini performs two perennial favourites: the sunny A major work and the lively F major K.459 with its overwhelming fugato finale. The veteran conductor Karl Böhm and sumptuous accompaniments by the Vienna Philharmonic provide the perfect background to Pollini’s immaculate playing.
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Frank de Bruine, Orchestra of the 18th Century – Mozart: Oboe Concerto & Other Works with Oboe (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:08 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following on after the death of Frans Brüggen in August 2014, the decision was taken by the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century to continue touring the world, and inviting various guest conductors who have known and worked with the ensemble over many years, such as Daniel Reuss, Jonathan Darlington and Andrea Marcon, and indeed Kenneth Montgomery, who directs the orchestral pieces on this brand new recording for Glossa. Additionally, the orchestra often performs without conductor – and most of its members have been involved musically with each other for decades.
The first recorded result of the new post-Brüggen era is this Mozart CD with a programme centred on the oboe, which has been devised by the longstanding orchestra member, Frank de Bruine. Mozart has been central to the Orchestra’s musicmaking and the composer made many friends with wind players – including oboists – and wrote abundantly for them. De Bruine is himself the soloist in the C major Oboe Concerto (the original version of the Flute Concerto, KV 314) and is present in two chamber pieces, the F major Oboe Quartet, KV 370 and the D major Divertimento, KV 251 as well as the concert aria, “Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio!”, KV 418 which involves soprano Dutch Lenneke Ruiten.
This new chapter in the recorded history of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century is provided with an essay by scholar Clemens Romijn.
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Alexandre Gattet, Les Dissonances, David Grimal – Mozart: Oboe Concerto & ‘Gran Partita’ (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:06:54 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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Oboe Concerto in C major K314: All his life, Mozart (1756 – 1791) was an indefatigable traveller, especially during his childhood and youth. On 22 September 1777 he left Salzburg with his mother, en route for Augsburg, Mannheim and then Paris, with a view to obtaining a secure position and a regular income. The first reference to the Oboe Concerto appears in a letter from Leopold Mozart to his son dated 15 October 1777: ‘. . . if you had a copy of your oboe concerto, Perwein might enable you to make an honest penny in Wallerstein.’ The oboist Perwein had left the service of Archbishop Colloredo of Salzburg to take up a post in Wallerstein; his departure had led to the engagement in April 1777 of an Italian virtuoso, Giuseppe Ferlendis, for whom this concerto was initially conceived.
On 4 November Mozart answered his father. During his stay in Mannheim, he had discovered among the members of one of the nest orchestras of the day a small community of outstanding musicians who were to become his friends, including the Konzertmeister Cannabich and the first oboe Ramm. Mozart related that he had made the acquaintance of the oboist, ‘who plays very well and has a delightfully pure tone. I have made him a present of my oboe concerto . . . and the fellow is quite crazy with delight. I played this concerto to him today on the pianoforte at Cannabich’s, and although everybody knew that I was the composer, it was very well received! Nobody said that it was not well composed, because the people here do not understand such matters . . .’ (The last sentence is of course sarcastically intended.)
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Richard Tognetti, Australian Chamber Orchestra – Mozart’s Last Symphonies (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:33:46 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Classical
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his last three symphonies in the summer of 1788, and since then they’ve usually been regarded as a set, even though there’s little reason to believe he intended them to be performed together. Unlike Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who came to regard these symphonies as a kind of symphonic oratorio in 12 movements, Richard Tognetti thinks of them as separate pieces that Mozart wrote opportunistically, possibly for a commission that fell through, though beyond that, he lets the music speak for itself. Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra play the Symphony No. 39 in E flat major, the Symphony No. 40 in G minor, and the Symphony No. 41 in C major, “Jupiter” in accepted Classical style, with Tognetti leading as concertmaster, though there’s no attempt to unify the performances or to claim any special insights about Mozart’s inner state. Listeners may find that these energetic and radiant performances don’t need much explanation to enjoy the period style and finesse of the playing, which is brilliant in these ABC Classics recordings. No theory or biographical facts are needed to appreciate the crisp performances or the wonderful sonorities of this exceptional orchestra, and the interpretations work because Tognetti relies on the music’s inner logic, rather than on the mythology that has developed around these masterworks. The reproduction is clear and close-up, affording the listener front-row seats to some delightful and genuinely exciting music-making. Highly recommended.
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Luca Pisaroni, Christiane Karg, Sonya Yoncheva, Thomas Hampson, Angela Brower, Anne Sofie von Otter, Maurizio Muraro, Rolando Villazón, Jory Vinikour, Vocalensemble Rastatt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, K.492 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:53:23 minutes | 3,35 GB | Genre: Classical
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After “Don Giovanni”, “Così fan tutte” and “Die Entführung aus dem Serail” this is the fourth of DG’s series of seven Mozart operas conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and initiated by Rolando Villazón, in collaboration with U-Live, Festspielhaus Baden Baden and with the generous support of ROLEX.
Recorded with a stellar cast, one of the brightest and most insightful conductors of our day and a specialist handpicked orchestra playing at their best in the stunning venue of Festspielhaus Baden-Baden (July 2015), Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s “completely gripping, high-contrast” Figaro is “a brilliant triumph”, wrote Badische Zeitung of the July 2015 concert performance recorded here, while heaping praise on Luca Pisaroni’s “thrilling” Figaro, Thomas Hampson’s Count “illuminating every word”, Sonya Yoncheva’s Countess “recalling Callas’s vocal colours”, Angela Brower’s “fascinatingly delicate, sensitive” Cherubino and Anne Sofie von Otter’s “wonderfully perceptive, charming Marcellina”, all in a performance “crowned” by Christiane Karg’s “enchanting” Susanna and Rolando Villazón as Basilio, who “had the audience at his feet”.
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Kristian Bezuidenhout – Mozart: Keyboard Music Vol. 7 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:12:51 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
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Fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout continues his multi-disc survey of Mozart’s music for solo keyboard with volume seven of the series. The first six have been met with universal critical acclaim from around the world. This program of explores the elegance and drama that are ever-present in Mozart’s music. Most notably Bezuidenhout performs two works influenced by the composer’s 1778 stay in Paris – the grandly proportioned Sonata in A minor, K. 310 and the dazzling Variations in C on “Lison dormait”, K.264.
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LSO Wind Ensemble – Mozart: Serenade No 10 for winds ‘Gran Partita’ (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:43 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Serenade No. 10 for winds in B-flat major, K. 361/370a, is a serenade by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart scored for thirteen instruments: twelve winds and string bass. The piece was probably composed in 1781 or 1782 and is often known by the subtitle “Gran Partita”, though the title is a misspelling and not in Mozart’s hand. It consists of seven movements.
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan – Mozart: Serenade in G Major, K.525 ‘Eine kleine Nachtmusik’; Divertimento No.15 in B Flat Major, K.287 (1965/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:42 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major), K. 525, is a 1787 composition for a chamber ensemble by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German title means “a little serenade,” though it is often rendered more literally but less accurately as “a little night music.” The work is written for an ensemble of two violins, viola, and cello with optional double bass, but is often performed by string orchestras. On this release, Herbert von Karajan conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker for a performance of Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and Divertimento KV 287.
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Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Alexander Janiczek – Mozart: Divertimento K.334 & Oboe Quartet K.370 (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:46 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Linn Records
Director and violinist Alexander Janiczek leads principal players from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in this beautifully intimate recording. Mozart’s writing allows each player to shine and demonstrates the depth of talent within the ensemble, illustrating why this orchestra has had such extensive success with its previous Mozart recordings. The works on this disc are full of well-known tunes which demonstrate Mozart’s trademark melodic beauty. Acclaimed oboist, Robin Williams, gives a dazzling performance of the composer’s great masterpiece. This is the fourteenth recording in the orchestra’s hugely successful partnership with Linn Records, a series that includes the award-winning Mozart Symphonies recordings with the late Sir Charles Mackerras.
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Trio Zimmermann – Mozart: Divertimento in E flat major, K 563 (2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 59:25 minutes | 1007 MB | Genre: Classical
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Classics Today 10/10: “This is a magnificent recording”; Music Web International: “Beautifully presented and recorded this impressive disc will prove a most worthwhile addition to any chamber music collection”.
‘Each instrument is primus inter pares, every note is significant …’ is how the scholar Alfred Einstein described W.A. Mozart’s Divertimento in E flat major for string trio. What other work could then be more suitable for the first disc of a star-studded ensemble such as Trio Zimmermann, in which each member is very definitely first among equals? Composed in the same year as the three final symphonies, Mozart’s only real trio for violin, viola and cello is a weighty work – six movements and close to 50 glorious minutes of music – and the fact that Mozart chose the title Divertimento (from the Italian divertire: to amuse) for a piece of these dimensions has often been remarked upon. But to Mozart, there was no real dividing line between ‘serious’ art and pleasure or amusement – and so, to quote Einstein once more, he gave us ‘the most perfect, finest thing that has ever been heard in this world’. To round off the disc, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Antoine Tamestit and Christian Poltéra have chosen to record Franz Schubert’s first contribution to the string trio genre, the opening – and only complete – movement (Allegro) of his String Trio in B flat major, D 471, written in 1816 when the composer was only nineteen.
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Scottish Chamber Orchestra – Mozart: Divertimenti (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:07 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following the success of performances and recordings of Weber’s Wind Concertos with SCO principals as soloists, the SCO Wind Soloists that feature on this album have since 2012 started to explore Harmoniemusik repertoire.
Inspired by the legacy of the great Mozartian conductors of the SCO including Sir Charles Mackerras, the Wind Soloists make a fine contribution to the SCO’s distinguished Mozart discography.
This new recording includes four of the five Tafelmusik sextets for pairs of clarinets, horns and bassoons, together with the Serenade in E flat major, the first of Mozart’s three great wind serenades.
The Serenade in E flat major has many unusual features. Its opening fanfare – a series of repeated chords on the tonic in E flat – immediately catches the ear.
The fact that Mozart avoids fatiguing the listener with a surfeit of the same sonorities, in music with a necessarily limited dynamic and instrumental range, bears eloquent testimony to his genius.
This recording captures the wealth of detail in Mozart’s Divertimenti; there is something in each of them for every music lover.
Comprising pairs of clarinet, bassoons and natural horns, the players are dedicated to performing each work in a stylish and informed way, from the masterpieces of Mozart, Beethoven and Weber to twentieth-century works and contemporary commissions.
The SCO Wind Soloists are: Maximiliano Martín clarinet, William Stafford clarinet, Peter Whelan bassoon, Alison Green bassoon, Alec Frank-Gemmill horn, Harry Johnstone horn.
The SCO Wind Soloists have appeared in chamber concerts throughout Scotland. They have also performed at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in the presence of HRH The Prince Charles.
Alexei Lubimov, Ronald Brautigam, Manfred Huss, Haydn Sinfonietta Wien – Mozart: Concertos for Two and Three Pianos (2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:02 minutes | 596 MB | Genre: Classical
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There is only a limited number of works for two or more solo instruments with orchestra. One reason may be that the concerto genre in the 19th century became the stomping ground of the great virtuosi of the day, and the works themselves vehicles for the great and unique talent of one, special performer – not two, or three. Mozart, however, was evidently attracted by the sinfonia concertante genre and created some of the finest examples of it, such as the Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola and the Concerto for Flute and Harp, as well as his two concertos for more than one piano. The ‘Lodron Concerto’ for three pianos was composed in 1776 for Countess Lodron and her daughters. It is Mozart’s third piano concerto and the young man’s irrepressible sense of fun is obvious: in his liner notes conductor and pianist Manfred Huss calls the concerto ‘a true musical joke, in which the musical line is divided between the three players quite arbitrarily; one piano continues what another has started and the third will conclude. The listener hardly notices the humour, however, as the music sounds quite “normal”, and only the pianists know (and the score shows) what Mozart is up to.’ When the composer three years later returns to the task of writing for more than one piano, the result is quite different. The Concerto in E flat major KV 365, composed for Mozart himself and his sister Nannerl, is according to Huss ‘in many respects Mozart’s first ‘big’ piano concerto. It is the first in which we find the very characteristic intertwining of the woodwind and the piano part, accomplished very effectively and virtuosically.’ Mozart seems to have been fond of the work, so fond that for a later performance he added clarinets, trumpets and timpani to the orchestra. Both versions of the score are found on the present recording, played by Alexei Lubimov and Ronald Brautigam, two of today’s finest performers on the fortepiano. The two versions frame the triple concerto, in which Lubimov and Brautigam are joined by Manfred Huss, artistic director of the eminent Haydn Sinfonietta Wien, who here make their first appearance on BIS.
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Sharon Bezaly, Julie Palloc, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Juha Kangas – Mozart: Complete Works for Flute and Orchestra (2008)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:21:52 minutes | 733 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS Records
When the greater part of the programme on this disc was released as the BIS 2005 Catalogue Disc, the response was electrifying. Sharon Bezaly was described as ‘God’s gift to the flute’ in The Times (UK), and a quote from the review in BBC Music Magazine is representative: ‘Bezaly’s exquisite, technically immaculate, compelling playing sets new standards in this repertoire, as do Kalevi Aho’s stunning cadenzas, composed especially for this recording.’ Other reviewers agreed, and the disc received top marks in Le Monde de la Musique, Crescendo, Musica and other magazines as well as on radio stations and web sites such as Classics Today. This staggeringly successful title – 145 000 copies sold worldwide! – is now made available again with the important inclusion of a newly made recording of the Concerto for Flute and Harp. At a session in October 2007, we reunited the performers and recording crew of the 2005 disc in the original venue, with the addition of the eminent harpist Julie Palloc as co-soloist. Furthermore, Finnish composer Kalevi Aho again provided the cadenzas for the work, as he had for the other concertos on the disc. The result is not to be missed – a 24 carat, complete collection of all Mozart’s works for flute and orchestra, on a hybrid SACD with the extremely generous playing time of 81 minutes and 52 seconds!
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Fazil Say – Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 06:14:28 minutes | 5,63 GB | Genre: Classical
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With his extraordinary pianistic talents, Turkish pianist Fazıl Say has been touching audiences and critics alike for more than twenty-five years, in a way that has become rare in the increasingly materialistic and elaborately organised classical music world. He is a pianist, composer and director with firm reputation in Europe, Asia and the US. After spending five years under David Levine at the Robert Schumann Institute in Düsseldorf and further studies at the Berlin Conservatory he came to international attention 1994 when he was the winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Since then he has become a regular guest artist with orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic, the Baltimore Symphony, the St Petersburg Philharmonic , the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, and the Orchestre National de France.
This release sees him return to Mozart, a composer with whom he has a great affinity, and a recording of his complete piano sonatas. The sonatas here are grouped by key, revealing Mozart’s unique approach to tonality.
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Fabrizio Meloni, Artkronos, Ezio Rojatti – Mozart: Clarinet Concerto K 622; Adagio and Fugue K 546; Clarinet Quintet K 581 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:30 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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Fabrizio Meloni incide il Concerto per clarinetto di Mozart, capolavoro che deve la sua popolarità planetaria all’Adagio, colonna sonora del film “La Mia Africa”. Meloni ha scelto di utilizzare il clarinetto di bassetto che si avvicina maggiormente all’idea di Mozart di uno strumento dal timbro dolce e con una accentuata profondità di suono nel registro grave, molto vicino alla voce umana. Completano il CD l’Adagio e fuga K546 e il Quintetto per clarinetto dove Meloni collabora con Marco Rizzi, Laura Bortolotto (violini), Danilo Rossi (viola) e Giovanni Gnocchi (violoncello).
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