Mozart

A collection of 31 posts

Mozart

Mozart from Khatia Buniatishvili and the ASMF

Buniatishvili's Mozart concertos are certainly worth hearing

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Mozart's Viola Concerto. Wait, what? ...

A fascinating, rewarding disc. The “Viola Concerto” is a genuinely enlightening idea

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Robert Levin and the AAM complete their Mozart series

Quite right Levin & the AAM's cycle should be crowned by these two titans of Mozart's œuvre

Live Performance

A delightful Magic Flute at Thaxted

Wild Arts continues to entertain and to stimulate in equal measure

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Sabine Devieilhe & Mathieu Pordoy in Mozart and Richard Strauss

My disc of the year so far: may it be bedecked with awards

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Robert Levin's Mozart cycle: the penultimate instalment

A truly superb disc. Only one release away from completion, this miracle of a project continues to illuminate and delight

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More Mozart from Il Pomo d'oro

... this is shaping into a significant cycle, one every Mozart lover should own.

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Robert Levin and the AAM in Mozart's Concertos for Multiple Instruments

Don't hesitate - this is the nexus of musicology and the sheer excitement of joyous music-making

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Mozart from Berlin: Akademie für Alte Musik in the Paris and Haffner Symphonies

A fine disc, full of life and spirit

Live Performance

Miraculous Mozart at the Proms from Pichon

This has to be my Prom of the year! Unforgettable

Live Performance

Prom 47 review: Ligeti & Mozart

A unique Prom in so many respects

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Mozart Piano Quartets on Chandos

A fine disc, then: state-of-the-art recording quality meets youthful ebullience and emotional exploration

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Ecstasy and Abyss: Martin Fröst conducts (and plays) Mozart

Life-affirming, profound, entertaining - this release is all these things, and more

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Mozart from Minnesota: Walter Klien & Stanslaw Skrowaczewski

This is a triumph of restoration, and the music chosen could hardly be heard in finer performances

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The Chiaroscuro Quartet triumphs in Mozart's Prussian Quartets

There appears to be absolutely nothing negative to say about this disc from any angle

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The Beginning and the End: Mozart from Il Pomo d'Oro

The most auspicious beginning ever, surely, for a Mozart symphony cycle

Beethoven

The Art of Transcription: Beethoven Eroica and Mozart 20 on solo piano

A must-have for all pianophiles. Paul Wee specialises in the improbably difficult; he is the real deal,

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Mozart Violin Concertos, Volume 2

A simply superb disc

Opera

Mozart's Flûte enchantée: Hervé Niquet and a French flute

Unless you count Hoffmeister’s Magic Flute (which one shouldn’t, obviously) this is Classical Explorer’s second post on Mozart's masterwork, his opera Die Zauberflöte: previously, we had a look at David McVicar’s production at Covent Garden. A recent performance of Zauberflöte under Christophe Rousset at

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Mozart from Oscar Shumsky

A treasure of a restoration - Shumsky is on top form throughout

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A new Mozart Piano cycle from Federico Colli on Chandos

This is some of the finest Mozart on the piano I have heard in many a moon

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Mozart 1786: Andsnes returns!

A fine companion to Mozart 1785!

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Mo3art arias, Lady Gaga-ish, from soprano Elsa Dreisig

Released today, this is double celebration of three triplicities: three "Da Ponte" operas (Cosí fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro andDon Giovanni) and three "opera serie" (Idomeneo, Lucio Silla and La clemenza di Tito). If you're wondering about the "Lady Gaga" reference

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A Magic Flute returns to Covent Garden ...

Terrific filming of a great production with a fine cast

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Francesca Dego plays Mozart

A release for all lovers of Mozart: life-enhancing, bracing, beautiful