Classical Music

Solti conducted Don Giovanni in nine performances during the 1954 Glyndebourne season : on July 7, 9, 11, 14, 17, 21, 23, 25, 27. These performances of Don Giovanni were Georg Solti’s only Glyndebourne appearances. This complete performance was broadcast live from the opera house on 17 July 1954. The source recording is part of the ‘Itter Broadcast Collection’ held by Lyrita Recorded Edition Trust. This is the first release on Prima Voce for more than five years and we hope that it will once again stimulate interest in this critically acclaimed series. A new printed catalogue for Prima Voce is also available and our next release will be Berlioz, ‘The Damnation of Faust’ in a live performance from the Royal Festival Hall, with Joan Hammond conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent in 1953.

The Rautio Piano Trio makes their Resonus Classics recording debut with a disc of three piano trios by Mozart. Particularly well-known for presenting a wide range of the trio repertoire on both period and modern instruments, the Trio performs here on period instruments including a fortepiano that once belonged to the late Christopher Hogwood CBE.

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

The Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto is currently one of the most renowned chamber orchestras in Italy. Since its conception in 1966, the orchestra has collaborated with the most prestigious international artists, such as Martha Argerich, V. Ashkenazy, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Sviatoslav Richter and K. Zimerman. Mozart composed these 3 concerts between the summer of 1782 and the beginning of 1783 for his own use.

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

The young Austrian pianist Ingrid Marsoner’s latest release, an all-Mozart program of sonatas, K475, K331, the Fantasia K457 and the Six Variations in G, K180 on the aria ‘Mio caro Adone’ from the opera La fiera di Venezia by Antonio Salieri, brings together works of tragedy, charm, technical brilliance and emotional reconciliation. Since debuting at the Vienna Konzerthaus in 1996, Ms. Marsoner has been invited to play solo recitals all over the world in famous concert halls and at major music festivals. The pianist has been the recipient of a number of First Prizes at int’l competitions.

On this new recording, two legendary Viennese pianists, Paul Badura-Skoda und J�rg Demus, devote themselves to works by Mozart for solo piano, four-handed piano and for two pianos, such as the well-known D major Sonata for Two Pianos KV 448. Besides the 'Larghetto and Allegro' for 2 Pianos, which was only discovered in 1963, and the Variations in G Major for Fourhanded Piano KV 501, the two pianists, who play on historical Walter fortepianos (and also wrote the texts in the booklet), share Mozart's three famous fantasias for solo piano - Demus playing the two Fantasias in C minor and D minor KV 396 and 397 and Badura-Skoda the great Fantasia in C minor KV 475.

Also available on Blu-ray

What begins like a fairy-tale turns into a whimsical fantasy halfway between magic farce and Masonic mysticism: The Magic Flute links a love story with the great questions of the Enlightenment, juxtaposes bird-catcher charm with queenly vengeance, and bewitches the listener with music that mixes cheerful melodies, lovers’ arias, show-stopping coloraturas and mysterious chorales.

W. A. Mozart’s opera premiered in 1791 and is one of the most often performed operas in the world. The 2013/2014 production on the Bregenz Festival lake stage impresses the audience with a fantastic setting framed by three dog-dragons, each of them more than twenty meters in height.

“David Pounty finds stunning answers to the everlasting questions surrounding ‘The Magic Flute’.”-- Tagesspiegel

“The ‘play on the lake’ in Bregenz takes the audience into a fantasy world.” -- Salzburger Nachrichten

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE

Sarastro – Alfred Reiter
Tamino – Norman Reinhardt
Königin der Nacht – Ana Durlovski
Pamina – Bernarda Bobro
Papageno – Daniel Schmutzhard
Papagena – Dénise Beck

Prague Philharmonic Chorus
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Patrick Summers, conductor

David Pountney, stage director
Johan Engels, set designer
Marie-Jeanne Lecca, costume and puppet designer
Fabrice Kebour, lighting designer

Recorded live from the Bregenz Festival, July 2013

Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: Dolby Digital 2.0 / DTS 5.0
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: German, English, French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese
Running time: 150 mins
No. of DVDs: 1 (DVD 9)