The opening Allegro immediately delivers a feeling of restlessness, as divided violas accompany the principal subject in quiet agitation. The tone of this subject is both poignant and tense, and ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s penultimate symphony is perhaps his most popular. Richard Wigmore surveys a selection of recordings – and busts a few Mozartian myths along the way The unfinished portrait of ...
Thrilling new interpretations of Mozart's final symphonies. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 4 August 2014. The great conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt sees Mozart's last three symphonies effectively as ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Classical sonatas, symphonies, and concertos share common musical DNA: the system of contrasting themes ...
Every great city deserves a significant symphony. Few acquire them. Often for prosaic reasons. Mozart’s 38th symphony is known as the “Prague” Symphony because it had its premiere during the ...
What is there not to like about the music of Mozart? Gioachino Rossini, the master of comic opera, put him above all the others. "I take Beethoven twice a week, Haydn four times," he once said, "but ...
A portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart's popularity as a piano soloist begins to wane, so he adapts. The composer happily turns his focus to his first, true love: opera. Mozart writes “The ...
Clemency Burton Hill is joined by conductor David Robertson at the Morgan Library in New York City, to explore the autograph manuscript of Mozart's Symphony No.35, the Haffner. Show more In a ...
Three furry superstars joined the Danish Chamber Orchestra for a very special performance of Mozart's "Hunting Symphony" at this year's Haydn Festival. In a world where classical music usually sticks ...
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