Mozart Digital

Unfamiliar Mozart: Always curious about unjustly neglected repertoire, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas introduces us here to a Mozart we have not met. Above and beyond his church sonatas, works written on commission, pieces meant to showcase a vocalist or an instrument (such as the rarely heard glass harmonica) or as a mark of friendship with another musician, this is a veritable treasure chest of musical gems that reflect the incredible versatility of the Salzburg genius.

Angela Hewitt’s voyage of discovery through Mozart’s piano sonatas is proving a joy, the works sounding newly minted in vital, alert accounts which respect their scale and sensibility while revealing influences of Mozart’s orchestral and concerto writing of the period.

"Mozart is a touchstone of the heart. If I want to do something especially dear to someone, I sit down at the piano and play them a piece by Mozart." With these sentences, the great Mozart interpreter Edwin Fischer has said something essential. From every note of Mozart speaks an extremely sensitive and delicate, loving and at the same time masculine powerful character, which expresses itself with inventiveness and a mastery perhaps only comparable to Bach.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s six ‘Milanese’ quartets constitute a milestone in his artistic activity. Written between Bolzano and Milan between 1772 and 1773, they came a few years after the Quartet K80/73f that he had composed in Lodi during his first Italian visit. More than that work, these six pieces – conceived before Mozart left the Milanese public with his third and last work for the Lombard capital, Lucio Silla K135 – constitute one of the first organic sets of string quartets ever conceived. Though based on the model of Haydn, they reveal Mozart’s modern spirit, capable of following a new path and enriching it with his own personal contribution.

Founded in 1996, the Vokalensemble Kölner Dom (Cologne Cathedral Vocal Ensemble) is the youngest of Cologne Cathedral’s four choirs. It performs, in turn with the other choirs, at the Sunday Chapter Mass and Pontifical Masses, as well as the Evening Prayer, all of which are broadcast live on domradio.de.

The complete Decca recordings of the critically acclaimed piano duo Bracha Eden & Alexander Tamir.

Excelling in chamber music as well as concertos, Jacqueline du Pré recorded many beautiful albums with her husband Daniel Barenboim at the piano, notably the complete sonatas and variations of Beethoven, here recorded live by the BBC in Edinburgh.

Innovative pianist Katie Mahan presents a lovingly chosen program that brings together the many sides of Mozart's magic.

Mozart's unfinished last composition, the Requiem in D minor from 1791, is one of the most famous compositions of the Latin Mass for the Dead.

In Mozart’s day, the vocal typologies that we know today were yet to be established. Women were sopranos, castrati were castrati, and Mozart wrote for personalities and vocal colours rather than for abstract voice types.