Latest News: Classical, Mozart (composer)
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Recording of the Week,
Mozart and Strauss Lieder from Sabine Devieilhe & Mathieu Pordoy 29th March 2024The French coloratura soprano and her new recital-partner draw all manner of illuminating parallels between the two composers in a recital which includes Mozart's Das Kinderspiel and Abendempfindung & Strauss's Mädchenblumen, Morgen! and Amor.
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Interview,
Maxim Emelyanychev on Mozart 9th November 2023In the wake of the second instalment of his Mozart symphonies series with Il Pomo d'Oro, the Russian conductor and harpsichordist recounts how he fell under the composer's spell aged four - and was thrown in at the deep end to conduct the Overture to Le nozze di Figaro just eight years later...
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Presto Music Classical Podcast,
Episode 36: I've Started, So I'll Finish – A Return to Mozart with Robert Levin 22nd April 2023Pianist, conductor, musicologist and Mozart reconstructionist Robert Levin talks about the resumption of his complete survey of Mozart's works for keyboard and orchestra.
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Recording of the Week,
Anime Immortali from Franco Fagioli 14th April 2023The Argentinian countertenor is at the top of his game in a programme exploring Mozart's writing for castrati, including the motet Exsultate, jubilate and arias from La finta giardiniera, Lucio Silla and La clemenza di Tito.
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Interview,
Franco Fagioli on Anime Immortali 14th April 2023The Argentinian countertenor discusses his new album of sacred and secular Mozart (out today on Pentatone) - and recounts how his love-affair with singing the composer's music was ignited when he was cast as First Boy in Die Zauberflöte aged 11...
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Interview,
Laurence Equilbey on Lucio Silla 17th May 2022The French conductor discusses her new recording of Mozart's early opera on Erato, starring Alessandro Liberatore as the eponymous dictator and Franco Fagioli in the castrato role of Cecilio.
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Interview,
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Gábor Takács-Nagy on Mozart piano concertos 11th April 2022The pianist and conductor discuss Manchester, music as medicine, Mozart, motifs and Masonry.
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Interview,
Aleksandra Kurzak on Mozart 23rd December 2021The Polish soprano talks to Katherine about drawing on her background as a violinist to direct the Morphing Chamber Orchestra on her new recording of opera arias with obbligato instruments.
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Interview,
Víkingur Ólafsson on Mozart and his Contemporaries 9th September 2021The Icelandic pianist talks to Katherine about his new album exploring 'one of the most incredible decades in any composer's life', and his mission to 'get rid of some my own preconceptions about Mozart by finding out more about the music of his day'.
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Recording of the Week,
Víkingur Ólafsson performs piano music by Mozart and contemporaries 3rd September 2021For his fourth album on Deutsche Grammophon, the Icelandic pianist presents a sublime, intelligent programme of works by Mozart alongside pieces by Haydn, Galuppi, Cimarosa, and CPE Bach.
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Interview,
Hervé Niquet on La flûte enchantée 24th June 2021The conductor talks to Katherine about his recording of a new French-language version of Die Zauberflöte with Le Concert Spirituel, following a spectacular production at Versailles last year.
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Interview,
Leif Ove Andsnes on Mozart Momentum 5th June 2021The Norwegian pianist talks about his new album, the first of a diptych that focuses in on a formative moment in Mozart's evolution as a composer.
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Recording of the Week,
Ombra Compagna from Lisette Oropesa 7th May 2021The Cuban-American soprano delivers drama and delicacy in equal measure on this collection of Mozart concert arias, with Il Pomo d'Oro on scintillating form under Antonello Manacorda.
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Interview,
Lisette Oropesa on Mozart 7th May 2021The Cuban-American soprano talks to David about today's Recording of the Week, Ombra compagna.
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Recording of the Week,
A Mozart postscript from Rachel Podger 26th March 2021Rachel Podger and Christopher Glynn bring to life a selection of musicologist Timothy Jones’s thoughtful completions of fragmentary Mozart works, offering a variety of plausible perspectives on what might have been.
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Interview,
Hélène Grimaud on The Messenger 7th January 2021The French pianist talks to Katherine about her recording of works by Mozart and Valentin Silvestrov with Camerata Salzburg, released at the end of last year on Deutsche Grammophon.
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Interview,
Sarah Willis on Mozart, Mambo and Cuba 13th July 2020Horn player Sarah Willis talks about her new cross-cultural album that explores connections between Mozart and the music of Cuba, and her initiative to support Cuban musicians.
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Interview,
Daniel Behle on Zero to Hero 24th September 2019The German tenor talks to Katherine about his new album of Mozart arias (released last Friday on Sony), and his own ongoing transition into more heroic repertoire.
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Interview,
Raphaël Pichon on Libertà! 9th September 2019The French conductor talks to Katherine about recording three 'mosaics' of music which Mozart composed or encountered during the period leading up to his life-changing collaboration with Lorenzo Da Ponte, including extracts from his abandoned operas Lo sposo deluso and L'oca del Cairo, and music by Salieri, Paisiello and Soler.
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Interview,
David Owen Norris on Mozart in the Nineteenth-Century Drawing-Room 5th August 2019The pianist talks to Katherine about his new recording of Hummel, Cramer and Clementi’s arrangements of Mozart symphonies and overtures for ‘Jupiter Ensemble’ (flute, violin, cello and piano), out now on Hyperion.