Posts tagged as "wolfgang-amadeus-mozart"

Mozart: Requiem

May 25, 2016

The first CD release of Kertész’ recording of Mozart’s choral masterwork with some glorious solo singing. The work achieved huge popularity in the 1980s through its pivotal inclusion in the film ‘Amadeus’.

Mozart Opera Gala

May 25, 2016

The greatest opera singers of this century perform arias from six of the finest Mozart operas

Mozart: Don Giovanni (highlights)

May 25, 2016

This is one of the most successful and stylish of Don Giovanni recordings. Having sung Donna Anna in her early (Giulini) recording, Sutherland here is, if anything, even more spine-tingling in this role. Bonynge and the English Chamber Orchestra, together with the Ambrosian Singers, really deliver the goods and the rest of the stellar cast […]

The Best of Mozart

May 25, 2016

The essential single-CD-Mozart-companion with some of the most acclaimed performances of highlights from his masterworks, many of which were selected for inclusion in the legendary ‘Complete Mozart Edition’ on Philips Classics.

Favourite German Opera Choruses

May 25, 2016

Never has a more sublime recording of German Opera Choruses been made. Varviso and his Leipzig and Dresden teams deliver some of the most ravishing sonorities you’ll ever here in a compilation that focuses on Wagner and is surrounded by Weber, Nicolai and Beethoven.

Für Elise – Piano Favourites

May 25, 2016

From Decca’s rich catalogue of piano music comes a generous selection of miniatures for piano, many of them quiet, all of them popular and much sought-after, in the finest of performances, of course.

Aromatherapy – Vol. 3: The Magic of Mozart

May 25, 2016

Aromatherapy, the quiet moments of classical music. And the third volume, the Magic of Mozart, showcases of some of his most magical, gorgeous slow movements, several of which – from the Piano Concerto No. 21 (‘Elvira Madigan’) and the Clarinet Concerto (‘Out of Africa’) – have acquired popular status from their incorporation into films.

Bach, Mozart, Haydn: Keyboard Concertos

May 24, 2016

In an edition of several releases on Eloquence devoted to the artistry of the great Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha’s Decca recordings, comes the first release on CD of her recording with David Zinman, of Mozart’s delectable A major Concerto KV 414. Coupled exactly as per the original LP (SXL 6952), this release offers up […]

Mozart: Mass in C minor

May 4, 2016

Colin Davis’ recordings of Mozart have stood the test of time and his readings of the composer’s choral music are imposing, ennobling edifices of interpretation. The soloists in the ‘Great Mass’ blend marvellously and the ‘Ave Verum Corpus’ is given a reading of quiet intensity.

Homage to Fritz Kreisler

April 29, 2016

The first CD release of a recording that was a legend in its lifetime. Campoli was, besides his many concert-platform accomplishments, a salon violinist of the first rank and naturally this easy ability to switch between the two domains gave him the edge over many other violinists of his day in this charming repertoire. When […]