Latest News: Classical, Mozart (composer)
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Recording of the Week,
Mozart Symphonies from Mackerras - Volume 2 15th March 2010The much-anticipated second volume of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Mozart series with their conductor laureate features joyous and life-enhancing accounts of Nos. 29, 31, 32, 35 and 46.
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Recording of the Week,
Idomeneo from René Jacobs 18th May 2009Following his landmark accounts of the three Da Ponte opera, Jacobs tackles Mozart’s early opera seria, with Richard Croft as the Cretan king, Bernarda Fink as his estranged son, and Alexandrina Pendatchanska spitting fire as Elettra.
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Recording of the Week,
Nigel Kennedy 14th April 2008The maverick violinist impresses in ‘rhythmically driven and playful’ Beethoven, but fails to convince in a Mozart concerto which sees him take up an electric violin for the cadenza…
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Recording of the Week,
Late Mozart Symphonies 18th February 2008 -
Recording of the Week,
Mozart - Don Giovanni from René Jacobs 1st October 2007The final instalment of the Belgian conductor’s ‘refreshing and intelligent’ Mozart-Da Ponte cycle has Chris questioning his preconceptions about the eponymous libertine, sung here by 27-year-old Johannes Weisser.