Colin Tilney Plays Mozart, Vol. 5

Colin Tilney Plays Mozart, Vol. 6

Mozart: String Quartets

Pascal String Quartets, Vol. 1: Mozart's String Quartets

Aida Stuckie was a Swiss violinist and teacher whose career began when she won the Geneva Competition in 1940. After this initial success she toured Europe and performed under the most famous conductors including Pina Pozzi, Walter Frey, Christoph Lieske, and Elly Ney. Dedicated to education, she began teaching in 1948, and continued throughout the rest of her life, taking a position at Zurcher Hochschule der Kunste in 1992, where she remained until her retirement. Anne-Sophie Mutter is her most famous student. She wrote of her teacher: "Aïda Stucki's recognition as an artist is both inevitable and overdue. Her artistry is a timeless inspiration. Her interpretation incorporates bewitching sound, personal instinct coupled with great insight to the wishes of the composer. I admire this great violinist deeply. These recordings are a must for any string player and music lover." (Anne-Sophie Mutter) This album won the German Record Critics' Award, 2010.

Daniel Barenboim continues his acclaimed Mozart concerto cycle with the Berlin Philharmonic, widely acknowledged among the greatest orchestras in the world. Barenboim, conducting from the piano, achieves an effortless collaboration with the orchestra, establishing himself once again as a premier Mozart interpreter. Barenboim's intricate playing and sensitive interpretation misses no detail of these works, and draws a warm and vigorous response from the Berliners.

Jacques Thibaud, Vol. 1: Mozart Concertos (Live)

Mozart: Kronungsmesse, Exsultate Jubilate / Koopman, Schlick, Magnus, Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Performer: Barbara Schlick, Paul Agnew, Elisabeth von Magnus, Matthijs Mesdag, Orchestra/Ensemble: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Amsterdam Baroque Choir, Conductor: Ton Koopman. This coupling of the two principal works here has been popular in recent years and has already given rise to several extremely good CDs; and here is another excellent version, with two short extra works thrown in. Indeed the selection, with an early work, a late one, Mozart's finest complete Mass setting, and a set of vesper psalms which typically shows a wide variety of styles, would make a first rate introduction to his sacred music. Ton Koopman has a keen sense of the stylistic basis of these pieces, the Mass and the vespers setting in particular: the lively tempos, the underlying sense of assurance and jubilation, the mix of the natural, fluent utterance and the serious meaning behind it- all this contributes to a series of performances that truthfully catch the atmosphere of Austrian rococo church music. One relishes, in the Mass, the brisk Gloria, with trumpets nicely prominent, the sturdy momentum of the Credo, the touch of delicate sentiment in the Benedictus. It is all greatly enhanced by the excellence of most of the solo singing, especially that of the delightful Barbara Schlick, so light and graceful, so natural in manner - there is some lovely singing from her in the Kyrie, but the Agnus Dei is simply magical, exquisitely sung, with the impassioned "Miserere" at it's climax leading very satisfyingly into the "Dona nobis pacem" with it's reassuring recapitulation of music heard before.

Colin Tilney Plays Mozart, Vol. 3

Pnina Salzman, Vol. 1

Arthur Grumiaux, Vol. 1: Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 & Viol

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The notable musicologist Alfred Einstein commented that Idomeneo is 'one of those works that even a genius of highest rank, like Mozart, could write only once in his life'. Every page of the score deserves appreciation. Of the many exceptional arias and ensembles, especially notable is the third act quartet 'Andro Ramingo e solo', one of the most moving concerted numbers in any Mozart opera. This recording is based on the original 1781 Munich version, without the extended ballet but including some music cut by Mozart before the premiere.