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“Mozart: The Sonata project”, Yundi
When the news filtered out, the day after the 2021 Chopin Competition – of which he was the only Chinese winner, in 2000 – that Yundi had been arrested by…
“Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 18 and 21”, Jonathan Fournel
This CD is part of the series Next Generation Mozart Soloists which documents young artists in Mozart concertos for various instruments. Eighth volume, it offers, after a splendid 3e Sonata…
“Piano Concertos Nos. 19 and 25”, Mozart, Alon Goldstein, Fine Arts Quartet
We cannot praise enough the rediscovery of Ignaz Lachner’s (1807-1895) arrangements of Mozart’s piano concertos with an orchestra reduced to a quartet and a double bass. Mozart himself used this…
“Concertos for two pianos” by Mozart, Robert Levin and Ya-Fei Chuang
Third stage of the project aimed at completing all of the Keyboard concertos of Mozart by Robert Levin, formerly undertaken with the late Christopher Hogwood. Concertos for two pianos are…
Christian Blackshaw concert review | Mozart in cellophane
Christian Blackshaw is a pianist with a certain reputation in Mozart, hence our desire to hear him for his return to Bourgie Hall on Thursday evening. The disappointment, however, was…
Mozart in life, in death
This Friday, Analekta is publishing a second volume of piano concertos by Charles Richard-Hamelin, Les Violons du Roy and Jonathan Cohen. It closely follows the musical testament of Lars Vogt,…
Mozart and Montgeroult | Arion displays the Empress’s jewelry
Pleasant discoveries and sure values, Friday evening for the start of the Arion orchestra’s season at Bourgie Hall, a concert which confirmed the talent of pianist Élisabeth Pion. Posted at…
“Mozart. Piano Concertos”, Academy of Ancient Music
We spoke to you last March about this formidable initiative, an operation to avenge the affront of the non-conclusion of the complete Mozart keyboard concertos once started by Robert Levin…
screen revival of Josef Mysliveček, prolific composer and mentor of Mozart, who has fallen into oblivion
Petr Vaclav’s film brings back to life a composer from Prague, contemporary of Mozart, Gluck and Haydn, mysteriously erased from history after having yet composed and premiered dozens of operas…
[Critique] Antoine Tamestit and the Ebony Quartet, “Quintets K. 515 and 516”, Mozart
This recording was, during the launch of the on-demand listening applications Apple Classical and Presto, one of those that we used to confuse those who claim that the added value…
Mozart Critique – String Quintets K. 515 & K. 516 | Mozart in good company
Although they hardly appear in concert compared to the quartets because of their unusual numbers (two violins, two violas and a cello), the six Quintets for strings by Mozart, however,…
[Critique] Maxim Rysanov in the Land of Mozart
This week sees the return of Ukrainian violist and conductor Maxim Rysanov at the helm of I Musici. After two concerts rather dedicated to the music of the XXe century,…
in Bordeaux, a sober “Requiem” by Mozart
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in Bordeaux, a sober “Requiem” by Mozart
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[Grand angle] Robert Levin: face to face with Mozart
Musicologist, pianist, professor emeritus at Harvard University, Robert Levin is a well of science on everything related to Mozart. Twenty years after his almost complete concertos with Christopher Hogwood, he…
[Critique] “Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 271 456”, Kristian Bezuidenhout
For anyone interested in the pianoforte in Mozart, Kristian Bezuidenhout’s records are often captivating. He plays here on a copy of an instrument by the master Walter made by Paul…
[Critique] “Maestrino Mozart”, Marie-Eve Munger
This CD wisely reminds us of the voice and talent of Marie-Ève Munger. The coloratura soprano is continuing her career in Europe and sang last season, notably in Strasbourg (la…
[Critique] “La Passione”, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven
The title, which takes up that of the Symphony noh 49 by Haydn at the heart of the program, also unites what could be called “vocal scenes”: the Scene from…
La Roque-d’Anthéron: Mao Fujita, Momo Kodama, The Japanese Connection And The Harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï, Royal Dans Bach.
Mao Fujita, Momo Kodama: two Japanese who escape what I could reproach Asians for the other day: uniformity. Magnificent performances. And Pierre Hantaï, the magician of the harpsichord, so in…
La Roque-d’Anthéron: At the Cinema Tonight With Pianist Jean-Marc Luisada, Visconti, Brahms And Mozart
It was an exquisite moment. Because in La Roque-d’Anthéron there are not only the majestic interpreters playing under the majestic trees of the park the majestic masterpieces of the repertoire…