Classical Music

Classical Music

Dan Ettinger is one of the leading international conductors of his generation. Since the start of the 2015/2016 season he has been Principal Conductor of the Stuttgart Philharmonic and General Music Director of the City of Stuttgart. His contract was prematurely extended in July 2016 to run till the summer of 2023. Ettinger regularly conducts at the world's great opera houses such as the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Washington National Opera, London's Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, the Opera National de Paris, the New National Theatre in Tokyo, Opernhaus Zurich, the Salzburg Festival and the State Opera Houses of Vienna and Munich. Ever since he began his conducting career, Ettinger has been scoring great successes on the concert platform as well. From 2002 to 2003 he was First Guest Conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. His appearances with the Stuttgart Philharmonic and with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Israel Symphony now form the core elements of his concert activities. On this release, he leads the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker in performing the timeless works of WA Mozart.

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The melody of the French children’s song “Ah vous dirai-je, Maman“, which was first published in the year 1761, is until today well-known in many different languages with varying lyrics (English: “Twinkle, twinkle, little star”; Spanish: “El campanita del lugar”; German: “Morgen kommt der Weihnachtsmann”). The further appropriation as ABC-Song to teach the alphabet to young learners induced the Japenese pianist Yoshiko Okada to name her latest CD “Mozart ABC”, since this little song offered Mozart the inspiration for his twelve piano variations K 265. Furthermore, the album contains the popular Fantasia C minor K 475 and the Sonata No. 14 C minor K 457, which it was published toghether with, as well as the cheerful and spirited Sonatas No. 8 D major K 311 and No. 12 F major K 332.

Stories of Mozart's musical precocity, especially centered on pianistic work, are well-known and form an integral part of our mythology around the composer. This release aims to bring wider attention to the charming opera Buffa La Finta Semplice, composed by Mozart at age 12. Full of light and elegant arias, skillful ensembles, and amusing characterizations, this recording casts the spotlight on a the delightful mind of a developing young composer.

SONATA FOR VIOLIN & PIANO

Steinbacher plays these enchanting scores with a refined elegance, interpretative warmth, and captivating, jewelled sonority reminiscent of the great Josef Suk. For playing that retains a strong sense of contact with the 20th century's golden age, Steinbacher has few serious contemporary rivals.

– BBC Music Magazine

MOZART, W.A.: Lucio Silla (Teatro la Fenice, 2006)

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 and 24

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For Russian pianist Ekaterina Litvintseva’s first-ever live recording, this young, up-and-coming Russian pianist, together with conductor Heribert Beissel and the Klassische Philharmonie, Bonn produced a recording of two Mozart concerto masterpieces, the No.9 in E flat Major, K271 (“Jeunehomme”), arguably his first masterwork in this genre, and the No. 12 in A, K414. “(A) singing allegro, eloquence and staying power in the…minor middle movement and perfect motor skills in the Presto…” (Bielefeld Neue Westfälische, K271 concert review)

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Leopold Mozart has only survived throughout history in fragments. The large supply of secular instrumental music on which he prided himself in 1757, has been irrevocably lost. Leopold's son, Wolfgang dismantled and auctioned off his things as to continue caring for his own family at the time. In the recording presented here, a listener can gain an overall impression of the composer's oeuvre. Reinhard Goebel leads the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie in discovering these forgotten masterpieces.