Mozart 250

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Serenades
Berliner & Wiener Philharmoniker - Karl Böhm
3xCD | EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 754 MB | Full Artwork: 50 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Deutsche Grammophon # 427 889-2 GX3 | Country/Year: Germany 1983 (1960's-1970's)
Genre: Classical | Style: Viennese School

Karl Böhm was one of the greatest conductors of the twentieth century in the German tradition. He studied music as a child and continued to work and study in music while serving in the Austrian Army during World War I – and while completing a doctorate in law. He coached singers at the Graz Opera and was permitted to conduct a performance of Nessler's Der Trompeter von Sackingen. He never had conducting lessons, but made close studies of the work of both Bruno Walter and Carl Muck…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Haffner-Sinfonie Nr. 35 / Haffner-Serenade Nr. 7 / Sinfonie Nr. 33 / Posthorn-Serenade Nr. 9
Iona Brown - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 541 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Hänssler # CD 98.199 | Country/Year: Germany 1997
Genre: Classical | Style: Vienesse School

…Turning to the grand and glorious Haffner, we find Brown’s tempos more aligned with Harnoncourt’s and surprisingly similar to George Szell’s early stereo-era recording, an interpretation that prefigured the biting articulation, clear textures, and propulsive energy of authentic (read: modern) performance practice. (…) Hänssler’s sound reflects the performances–vibrant, full, and dynamic. A great Mozart disc.

Mozart - Haffner Serenade, Divertimento No.6 - Josef Suk, Libor Hlavacek (1988)
EAC Rip | FLAC (img + cue), LOG | TT 69:34 | Covers (jpg 300 dpi) | RAR 339 MB (3% Recovery)
Supraphon | Czechoslovakia | 11 0635-2 011 | 1988

Josef Suk (1929) is the direct heir of the musical genius of two great Czech composers - Antonin Dvorak and Josef Suk - from whom he is directly descended. Since 1960 he has won the Grand Prix of the Parisian Charles Cros Academy four times; and from this time he is soloist with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1972 he was awarded the Edison Prize for his recording of J. S. Bach's Sonatas and Partitas, and in 1974 he received the "Wiener Flotenuhr" for his recording of Mozart's Violin Concertos. Since 1980 he is a Professor at the Vienna Academy of Music.

What I really wanted was a motor scooter, if I remember correctly. But on that memorable day when I turned 13, it turned out to be something very different: a 45-rpm record, with a touching family portrait of Wolfgang, Nannerl, and Papa Leopold on the cover of the pretty little square case.