Mozart 250

Five years after first conducting the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra in their Venezuelan home, Claudio Abbado continues his commitment to this stunning ensemble in this first joint audiovisual concert recording. Prokofiev's extrovert Scythian Suite is a gift for the boundless energy of these young players, while the intricacy and anguish of Berg's Lulu-Suite are an Abbado speciality, with soprano Anna Prohaska, in her Lucerne Festival debut, singing the heroine's dazzling statement of self-justification. The concert ends with an impassioned account of Tchaikovsky's Pathétique, his final symphony, one of the most moving works in music history.

Philippe Bernold, mozartien de la première heure, signe un manifeste de l'amour de Mozart pour la flûte, pour le plus grand plaisir des amateurs de la Grande Musique. Le Concerto pour flûte et harpe est une des oeuvres les plus populaires de la musique classique (plus particulièrement son deuxième mouvement). Quelque 250 ans après sa création, Philippe Bernold et Emmanuel Ceysson, invités à le jouer aux quatre coins du globe, nous livrent une version inoubliable captée par les micros de Nicolas Bartholomée. Un album qui sera sans aucun doute une référence absolue.

Don Giovanni, a libertine, a rake with a devil-may-care attitude, is portrayed magnificently by Teddy Tahu Rhodes in this Opera Australia production, where he first appears on stage in a costume where less is definitely more! Charismatic and sexy, Rhodes’ acting and singing are magnificent. His misused servant, Leporello, is played by Conal Coad, who skilfully promotes the opera’s comic elements whilst delivering a thumping bass full of drama.

The Haffner Serenade in D major was written in 1776 for Marie Elizabeth Haffner's wedding celebration and was commissioned by her brother Sigmund, later the recipient of the Haffner Symphony. Though this composition has elements of Mozart's symphonic style – particularly in its dramatic first and last movements, the grand Menuettos, and the sixth movement Andante – it is cast in eight movements of diverse character and has a casual ambience that belongs to the serenade. The violin solos in the second, third, and fourth movements lend a concertante air to this work, though they have a private quality unlike the bravura displays of the concerto style…

Brigitte Hamann - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, sein Leben und seine Zeit
Audiobook/History/Bio | Random House Audio | 2006 | ISBN: 3866042299 | German | MP3 192 kbps | 02:38:01 | 217 MB

Brigitte Hamann läutet mit "Mozart" den 250. Geburtstag des großen Komponisten ein und zeigt das Genie Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in all seinen Facetten. Die Autorin rollt sein Leben anhand seiner Opern auf und bietet auf diese Weise auch einen perfekten Einstieg in das musikalische Werk. Dabei geht es nicht nur um die Person Mozart, sondern ebenso um die Zeit und die Welt, in der er gelebt hat.