Mozart Flute Concert

MOZART 111 combines the best of the Austrian master's music with the best of Deutsche Grammophon's Mozart recordings, bringing together a total of 111 works, while retaining, as far as possible, the original album releases with their cover art. There's enough of everything here to stock a shop, as they say, in performances that have stood the test of time and performances that make you sit up and listen to Mozart afresh the perfect way to discover, rediscover and savor the incomparable genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Originally released by Philips Classics on VHS and Laserdisc in 1991, the 13-part Mozart on Tour series chronicles the journeys of the child, adolescent and adult Mozart across Europe, in what was ultimately to prove a futile pursuit of fame and fortune. Each episode is centred on a different European city and combines travelogue-style narration with musical excerpts and period re-enactment.

Franciscus (30 October 1934 – 13 August 2014) was a Dutch conductor, recorder player and baroque flautist.

This programme is something of a memorial to Daniel Majeske who died from cancer in November 1993 after being Concert Master of the Cleveland Orchestra for 25 years. Christoph von Dohnanyi honours his memory in a written note, and Majeske's performance of Mozart's Sinfonia concertante, K364, recorded two years before his death, celebrates his searching, highly cultivated solo playing.

Giampaolo Pretto is the main conductor of the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, in Italy from 2016, and has been coach conductor of the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana in Fiesole from 2012 until 2018. As a conductor whose career is constantly increasing, he always aimed to face the most different repertoire and he choose from the beginning to cope with the more different styles and composers, from classic up to contemporary music. He closed the 2015 season of Petruzzelli Theatre in Bari performing Ravel, Battistelli, Stravinsky and Copland, while opening the 2015-16 Season of OFT in Torino with Mahler’s IX. He conducted the italian première of the Bach/Stravinsky "Four préludes and fugue for chamber orchestra", together with Paganiniana di Casella, at the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto; Brahms Serenade op. 11 in Tbilisi and in Italy during the georgian orchestra Paliashvili tour ; Pergolesi Stabat Mater in Florence with the Orchestra V. Galilei.

Long before the advent of surtitles in the opera house, success across Europe of new dramatic works depended on their plots being understood by local audiences. Such was the case for the German singspiel that is Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and when it was introduced to in Paris in 1801 it was adapted and re-titled Les Mystères d’Isis: this is the opera which Le Concert Spirituel and the Flemish Radio Choir have recorded for this new release on Glossa (Diego Fasolis conducting the ensembles in place of the then indisposed Hervé Niquet).