Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

This set features the concertos for solo keyboard and orchestra actually composed by Mozart. Concertos Nos. 1–4 (K. 37, 39, 40 & 41) are orchestral and keyboard arrangements of sonata movements by other composers, arranged by the child Mozart for composition lessons and are not included. The unnumbered concertos for two and three pianos are also not included. Originally issued in separate volumes by the Dabringhaus & Grimm label, the concertos are performed by Christian Zacharias with the acclaimed Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
COSÌ FAN TUTTE

Ferrando - Topi Lehtipuu
Guglielmo - Luca Pisaroni
Don Alfonso - Nicolas Rivenq
Fiordiligi - Miah Persson
Dorabella - Anke Vondung
Despina - Ainhoa Garmendia

The Glyndebourne Chorus
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Iván Fischer, Conductor

Nicholas Hytner, Stage Director

Recorded live at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in June and July 2006

Bonus Material:
- Insights - with Ivan Fischer, Nicholas Hytner and members of the cast
- Illustrated Synopsis and Cast Gallery

Picture format: 1080i High Definition, 16:9
Sound format: 2.0 and 5.0 True HD
Region code: 0 (All Regions)
Menu Language: English
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian
Running time: 210 minutes
No. of Discs: 1 (BD50)

KLEINE NACHTMUSIK KV 525, CONC

Classical Music

Classical Music

The conclusion of a very special edition! The Leipzig String Quartet performs four new works and with them rounds off the series of the early string quartets composed by the sixteen-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during his journeys to Milan and Vienna. Now that the general inspection of Mozart’s quartets by this ensemble is complete, the only question is: Why have these youthfully fresh pieces so very much been overshadowed by the ten famous “great quartets?” After all, it was with the carefreeness of youth that the teenage Mozart went to work here: escaping from the narrowly circumscribed Salzburgian world, he eagerly absorbed what was in demand: in Milan the three-movement Italian sinfonia was his model; in Vienna it was the four-movement sonata of early Viennese classicism. However, Mozart did more than just produce skillful stylistic copies; he varied the fashionable model with rich imagination. Historically informed and using bows from the period when Mozart composed the quartets, the Leipzig String Quartet sets out in quest of a sound in keeping with the times and incorporating ideas of musical rhetoric as well as long lines of development and singing cantilenas. The quartets of Mozart’s youth now produce a slenderized effect without economizing on tonal refinement. This is “classical” musical pleasure in the best sense of the term!

Classical Music

MOZART GREAT HITS

The first of the triumvirate of Mozart’s last three superlative operas – Cosi fan Tutte (1790) and Die Zauberflöte (1791) being the others – Don Giovanni (1787) tells the tale of this legendary womanizer, already a cautionary tale of considerable merit, with the added power and weight of a brilliant musical setting by one of mankind’s greatest musical geniuses and a stunningly effective libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. This tragicomedy of the highest order cries out for the finest musical forces, voices and staging to be truly overwhelming and meaningful. The cast for this production includes Ildebrando D´Arcangelo (“doesn’t do Don Giovanni; he is the Don. Unsurpassable” 24 Ore) and Carmela Remigio (“an exceptionally passionate and tender Donna Elvira.” (La Stampa) With direction from Riccardo Frizza and one of Italy’s finest stage and set designers on hand in veteran Pier Luigi Pizzi, the course is set for a staggering night at the opera.

HORN CONCERTOS KV 417, 447, 49

Classical Music

A brilliant start and now the sequel on Vol. 2 with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's complete basset horn trios in arrangements by Ulf-Guido Sch�fer for trio d'anches. From the twenty-five individual movements - in part of quite enigmatic transmission - Sch�fer has put together two more highly entertaining divertimentos. Deeply moving excerpts from Cos� fan tutte form a dramatic contrast to the serenade tone of the trios. The trio d'anches consisting of an oboe, a clarinet, and a bassoon is actually a creation of the twentieth century. French composers in particular felt inspired by the homogeneous sound of this ensemble not unlike the sound of the human singing voice. Whether Mozart would have shared their predilection remains speculation - but not the fact that his music creates such an authentic impression in Sch�fer's arrangements that it is as if it had been composed in eighteenth-century Vienna. Sch�fer himself plays the clarinet in the Trio Roseau - the instrument that so greatly fascinated Mozart during the last years of his life. And so it is precisely in his late operas that we repeatedly encounter demanding solo passages for the winds - a genuine treasure trove for ambitious chamber arrangements. Here the Trio Roseau delves into the long and multifaceted tradition of opera transcriptions for wind ensembles. Since they could be performed in the open air, they already enjoyed great popularity during Mozart's times. This brand-new Super Audio album conveys a veritable three-dimensional sound picture and brings genuine serenade feeling into the home atmosphere of the living room.