KV 85

Alessandra Gentile with the Perugia Chamber Orchestra conducted by Christian Schmitt, a monographic album dedicated to W.A. Mozart with the two Concertos for piano and orchestra no. 19 and no. 9. The CD opens with the Concerto forpiano and orchestra no. 19 KV 459, completed in Vienna in 1784 and performed in 1790 by Mozart himself in Frankfurton the occasion of the celebrations for the coronation of Leopold II (and for this reason called the second Coronation Concerto) and published posthumously in 1800.

This CD combines two famous masterpieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in startling and clever arrangements for string quartet and string sextet, both dating from the early 19th century.
The Requiem in D minor KV 626 was conceived by Mozart for four vocal soloists, chorus and orchestra. He began composing it in 1791. When he died in December of that year, the Requiem remained unfinished. It was completed
and edited by Franz Xaver Süssmayr. This version was first published in 1800. Probably only a few years later- some sources suggest as early as 1802- the physician/composer/music publicist Peter Lichtenthal (1780-1853) used this score when he arranged the Requiem for string quartet. His daring arrangement, omitting the vocal soloists and chorus and thus also the words of the Mass for the Death, remained manuscript and was only published at the end of the 20th century.

This ninth installment of the Next Generation Mozart Soloists series presents four young soloists under the direction of Howard Griffiths and reveals the full range of Mozart's creativity. Mozart most likely heard a Sinfonia concertante - a work in which a group of solo instruments enters into a dialog with the orchestra - for the first time in Paris in 1778. The following year he composed such a work for violin, viola and orchestra: the Sinfonia concertante K. 364. It is recorded here by Johan Dalene and Eivind Ringstad, who are full of praise for the way Mozart placed the viola on an equal footing with the violin.

Volume 11 of the 'Next Generation Mozart Soloists' series presents Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major along with Piano Concertos KV 40 and KV 449. The Piano Concerto No. 3 is a very early work, derived from works by other composers, whereas No. 14 was written in 1784 by a fully mature Mozart, who was moving away from functional music towards expressing his ideas in a more dramatic structure.

Alessandra Gentile with the Perugia Chamber Orchestra conducted by Christian Schmitt, a monographic album dedicated to W.A. Mozart with the two Concertos for piano and orchestra no. 19 and no. 9. The CD opens with the Concerto forpiano and orchestra no. 19 KV 459, completed in Vienna in 1784 and performed in 1790 by Mozart himself in Frankfurton the occasion of the celebrations for the coronation of Leopold II (and for this reason called the second Coronation Concerto) and published posthumously in 1800.

Volume 11 of the 'Next Generation Mozart Soloists' series presents Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major along with Piano Concertos KV 40 and KV 449. The Piano Concerto No. 3 is a very early work, derived from works by other composers, whereas No. 14 was written in 1784 by a fully mature Mozart, who was moving away from functional music towards expressing his ideas in a more dramatic structure.

This ninth installment of the Next Generation Mozart Soloists series presents four young soloists under the direction of Howard Griffiths and reveals the full range of Mozart's creativity. Mozart most likely heard a Sinfonia concertante - a work in which a group of solo instruments enters into a dialog with the orchestra - for the first time in Paris in 1778. The following year he composed such a work for violin, viola and orchestra: the Sinfonia concertante K. 364. It is recorded here by Johan Dalene and Eivind Ringstad, who are full of praise for the way Mozart placed the viola on an equal footing with the violin.