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Ombra Compagna from Lisette Oropesa
7th May 2021
The Cuban-American soprano delivers drama and delicacy in equal measure on this collection of Mozart concert arias, with Il Pomo d'Oro on scintillating form under Antonello Manacorda.
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Lisette Oropesa on Mozart
7th May 2021
The Cuban-American soprano talks to David about today's Recording of the Week, Ombra compagna.
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A Mozart postscript from Rachel Podger
26th Mar 2021
Rachel Podger and Christopher Glynn bring to life a selection of musicologist Timothy Jones’s thoughtful completions of fragmentary Mozart works, offering a variety of plausible perspectives on what might have been.
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Hélène Grimaud on The Messenger
7th Jan 2021
The French pianist talks to Katherine about her recording of works by Mozart and Valentin Silvestrov with Camerata Salzburg, released at the end of last year on Deutsche Grammophon.
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Sarah Willis on Mozart, Mambo and Cuba
13th Jul 2020
Horn player Sarah Willis talks about her new cross-cultural album that explores connections between Mozart and the music of Cuba, and her initiative to support Cuban musicians.
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Daniel Behle on Zero to Hero
24th Sep 2019
The German tenor talks to Katherine about his new album of Mozart arias (released last Friday on Sony), and his own ongoing transition into more heroic repertoire.
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Raphaël Pichon on Libertà!
9th Sep 2019
The French conductor talks to Katherine about recording three 'mosaics' of music which Mozart composed or encountered during the period leading up to his life-changing collaboration with Lorenzo Da Ponte, including extracts from his abandoned operas Lo sposo deluso and L'oca del Cairo, and music by Salieri, Paisiello and Soler.
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David Owen Norris on Mozart in the Nineteenth-Century Drawing-Room
5th Aug 2019
The pianist talks to Katherine about his new recording of Hummel, Cramer and Clementi’s arrangements of Mozart symphonies and overtures for ‘Jupiter Ensemble’ (flute, violin, cello and piano), out now on Hyperion.
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Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider on Mozart
25th Mar 2019
The violinist talks to Katherine about his recent recording of the Mozart concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra, and his role as president of the Carl Nielsen International Competition, which is currently in full swing in Denmark.
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Mozart's La clemenza di Tito from Yannick Nézet-Séguin
13th Jul 2018
Marina Rebeka and Joyce DiDonato strike sparks off one another as Vitellia and Sesto in a terrific new recording of Mozart's final opera, with Rolando Villazón as the idealistic emperor against whom they conspire.
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Ian Page on Mozart in London
23rd Apr 2018
The conductor talks to Katherine about his new recording exploring the music which the young composer is likely to have encountered on his visit to the city in the mid-1760s.
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Mozart's Requiem from René Jacobs
3rd Nov 2017
The Belgian conductor presents Mozart's late mass in a new version by Pierre-Henri Dutron, which builds on and refines material from the familiar Süssmayr completion.
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Noa Wildschut on Mozart
17th Oct 2017
Rising star Noa Wildschut - a protégée of Anne-Sophie Mutter - talks to David about her debut disc, an all-Mozart programme with pianist Yoram Ish-Hurwitz and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra under Gordan Nikolić.
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Francesco Piemontesi performs Piano Concertos by Mozart
11th Aug 2017
James enjoys a pair of late Mozart concertos from Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi, with Andrew Manze and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
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Grigory Sokolov performs piano concertos by Mozart and Rachmaninov
10th Mar 2017
James enjoys the rare delight of a pair of concerto recordings by the Russian pianist, with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra accompanying.
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Teodor Currentzis conducts Mozart's Don Giovanni
9th Dec 2016
Katherine listens to a powerful new account of Mozart's troubling masterpiece, with MusicAeterna and Teodor Currentzis.
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Isabelle Faust plays Mozart's Violin Concertos
28th Oct 2016
David enjoys Isabelle Faust's new complete set of Mozart's Violin Concertos with Il Giardino Armonico.
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Henning Kraggerud on Mozart
15th Aug 2016
The violinist talks to David about his new Mozart recording, and his views on the relationship between composer and performance.
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Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien perform Violin Sonatas by Mozart
29th Apr 2016
David listens to Alina Ibragimova's new collection of Mozart Violin Sonatas, accompanied by Cédric Tiberghien.
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Presto Personal Favourites from 2015
18th Dec 2015
The Editorial team pick out their "ones that got away" from 2015 - the discs that slipped through the net but which we feel deserve a mention in despatches…
