Salzburger

With volume 4 of the complete Mozart Concertos, Cyprien Katsaris, Mari Ota and Eung-Gu Kim and the Salzburger Kammerphilharmonie under the baton of the Korean conductor Yoon K. Lee address the Concertos for two and three pianos, K. 365 and K. 242. These pieces, written in Mozart’s home city, bear witness to the relationships Mozart enjoyed with his pupils in the Salzburg aristocracy.

After rediscovering the music of Giovanni Croce, maestro di cappella at St Mark’s cathedral in Venice (A439), Ensembles Voces Suaves & Concerto Scirocco take us to Salzburg and put the spotlight on the Verona-born composer Stefano Bernardi, a contemporary of Monteverdi. Bernardi reached the peak of his career in Salzburg, when he was appointed the first Kapellmeister of its newly constructed cathedral, a position he held from 1628 to 1634. Bernardi contributed greatly to the integration of the Italian nuovo stile in Salzburg, especially of features such as polychorality and the stile concertato, and may therefore be seen as the musical forefather of later, more famous Salzburg musicians.