THE VERY BEST OF MOZART 2CD

THE VERY BEST OF MOZART 2CD

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Date of birth: 27 January, 1756, Salzburg, Austria. Date of death: 5 December, 1791, Vienna, Austria. Notable achievements: Mozart composed more than 600 works, ranging from operas, to concertos, to symphonies, to chamber music, to choral works. He was prodigiously gifted in both performance and composition from a very early age. He is believed to have written his first composition at the age of five and given his first performance a year later for Austrian royalty. Accompanied by his father and his sister his early life involved much touring and performing around Europe as a wunderkind. But by the time he reached his teenage years, it was harder to eke out a living as a child prodigy. Unable to secure a coveted court appointment in Salzburg, he moved to Vienna. He married Constanze Weber in 1782. This last decade of his life is extraordinary in that coupled with a rapid decline in financial circumstances came the most extraordinary output of compositions in almost every genre, considered to be some of the greatest masterpieces ever written. Best known works: Requiem, Jupiter Symphony, Symphony No. 40 in G minor, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, Clarinet Concerto, 30 piano concertos, 23 string quartets. What he said about talent: A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place. 2

What others said about him: Before God, and as an honest man, I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me. (Joseph Haydn, to Mozart s father Leopold) O Mozart, immortal Mozart, what countless images of a brighter and better world you have stamped upon our souls! (Franz Schubert) He roused my admiration when I was young; he caused me to despair when I reached maturity; he is now the comfort of my old age. (Gioachino Rossini) Mozart is sunshine. (Antonín Dvořák) This boy will cause us all to be forgotten. (Johann Adolf Hasse) The opera [The Magic Flute] is the only one in existence that might conceivably have been composed by God. (Neville Cardus) I am in love with Mozart like a young girl. Immortal Mozart! I owe you everything...i have you to thank that I did not die without having loved. (Søren Kierkegaard) 3

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 1756-1791 CD1 [77 31] 1 Allegro from Serenade in G major, KV525 Eine kleine Nachtmusik 5 07 Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Lancaster conductor 2 Three German Dances, KV605 6 11 Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Thomas conductor 3 Laudate Dominum from Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, KV339 4 18 Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne, Jonathan Bradley organ, Michael Leighton Jones director 4 Andantino from Concerto in C major for flute and harp, KV299 9 14 Geoffrey Collins flute, Suzanne Handel harp, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer conductor 5 Là ci darem la mano (There we will take each other s hand) from Don Giovanni, KV527 3 05 Isobel Buchanan soprano, John Pringle baritone, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge conductor 6 Adagio from Serenade No. 10 in B-flat major, KV361 Gran Partita 5 05 Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Willem van Otterloo conductor 7 Allegro from Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-flat major, KV447 6 50 Lin Jiang horn, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Barry Tuckwell conductor 8 Andante from Clarinet Quintet in A major, KV581 6 44 Kammer (John Lewis clarinet, Scott Taggart, Rebecca Somers violins, Nicole Forsyth viola, Daniel Yeadon cello) 4

9 Ave verum corpus, KV618 3 22 Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir, Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra, Antony Walker conductor LIVE RECORDING 0 Rondo (Alla turca) from Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, KV331 3 48 Gerard Willems piano! Overture from The Magic Flute, KV620 7 30 Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Richard Bonynge conductor @ Andante from Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, KV467 Elvira Madigan 6 53 Vera Kameneva piano, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Hogwood conductor LIVE RECORDING Voi che sapete (You ladies who know what love is) from The Marriage of Figaro, KV492 2 57 Sally-Anne Russell mezzo-soprano, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Milton conductor $ Molto allegro from Symphony No. 41 in C major, KV551 Jupiter 6 27 Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Challender conductor LIVE RECORDING CD2 [72 36] 1 Overture from The Marriage of Figaro, KV492 4 21 Orchestra Victoria, Richard Divall conductor 2 Andante from Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major, KV364 10 06 Carl Pini violin, Irina Morosova viola, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Nicolls conductor LIVE RECORDING 3 Rondo (Allegretto) from Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat major, KV452 6 08 The Australian Classical Wind Band (Antony Chesterman oboe, Craig Hill clarinet, Darryl Poulsen horn, Peter Moore bassoon), Geoffrey Lancaster piano 5

4 Catalogue Aria (Madamina, il catalogo è questo) from Don Giovanni, KV527 5 52 Teddy Tahu Rhodes baritone, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Ola Rudner conductor 5 Adagio from Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, KV488 7 30 Simon Tedeschi piano, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Briger conductor 6 Soave sia il vento (May the wind be gentle) from Così fan tutte, KV588 2 37 Amanda Thane soprano, Fiona Janes mezzo-soprano, David Brennan bass, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Carlo Rizzi conductor 7 Allegro con spirito from Symphony No. 35 in D major, KV385 Haffner 5 42 Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Oleg Caetani conductor LIVE RECORDING 8 Rondo (Allegro vivace) from Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat major, KV495 3 45 Lin Jiang horn, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Barry Tuckwell conductor 9 Alleluia from Exsultate, jubilate, KV165 2 29 Shu-Cheen Yu soprano, The Queensland Orchestra, Brett Kelly conductor 0 Presto from String Quartet No. 3 in G major, KV156 3 05 Australian String Quartet (William Hennessy, Douglas Weiland violins, Keith Crellin viola, Janis Laurs cello)! Lacrimosa from Requiem in D minor, KV626 3 09 Cantillation, Orchestra of the Antipodes, Antony Walker conductor @ Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen (Hell s vengeance boils in my heart) from The Magic Flute, KV620 2 55 Cyndia Sieden soprano, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer director LIVE RECORDING Adagio from Clarinet Concerto in A major, KV622 7 30 Donald Westlake clarinet, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Robert Pikler conductor $ Molto allegro from Symphony No. 40 in G minor, KV550 7 27 Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti conductor LIVE RECORDING 6

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