Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quintets K.406 & K.516

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quintets K.406 & K.516 Recorded at the Unitarian Church, Budapest, from 14th to 17h of February, 1994. About these works: Mozart’s String Quintet in C minor, K 406 is the composer’s own arrangement of a Wind Serenade, K. 388, for two oboes, clarinets, horns and bassoon, written in 1782 at [...]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Le Nozze Di Figaro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Le Nozze Di Figaro Recorded in Berlin in 1968. About this opera: Whatever the merits of sets made since, this one is ensured a revered place in the pantheon of Figaro recordings. Made in 1968, when Bohm was enjoying an Indian summer, it was based on a production by Sellner at [...]

Various Artists – Great Opera Arias

Various Artists – Great Opera Arias Recorded between 1979 & 1988 About these works: The fourteen extracts recorded here are among the best-loved arias from the worlds’s most famous operas. All of them were recorded with the most famous and reputed singers and orchestras, in some cases during live performances. This recording is a good [...]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – 4 Horn & Bassoon Concertos

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – 4 Horn & Bassoon Concertos Recorded in New York on March & December, 1987. About these works: The Bassoon Concerto in B flat major (K. 191), written in 1774 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is the most standard piece in the entire bassoon repertory. Nearly all professional bassoonists will perform the piece [...]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quartets No.20 & 23 & Adagio And Fugue In C Minor, K.546

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quartets No.20 & 23 & Adagio And Fugue In C Minor, K.546 Recorded at the Unitarian Church, Budapest,from 5th to 9th April, 1993. About this work: The String Quartet in D Major, K. 499, was written in 1786 in Vienna by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was published by — if [...]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quartets No.16 & 18

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quartets No.16 & 18 Recorded at the Sashalon Reformed Church, Budapest from 4th to 8th January, 1991. About these works: The String Quartet No. 16 in E flat major, K. 428/421b, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This is the third of the Haydn Quartets, a set of six string [...]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Idomeneo, Re Di Creta + Supplement

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Idomeneo, Re Di Creta About the opera: “Idomeneo, Re Di Creta” was first performed at the Cuvilliés Theatre of the Residenz in Munich on January 29, 1781. Written when the composer was 24, Idomeneo was Mozart’s first mature opera seria, and with it he demonstrated his mastery of orchestral color, accompanied [...]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Complete Masonic Music

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Complete Masonic Music About the work: Mozart was admitted as an apprentice to the Viennese Masonic lodge called “Zur Wohltätigkeit” (“Beneficence”) on 14 December 1784. He was promoted to journeyman Mason on 7 January 1785, and became a master Mason “shortly thereafter”. Mozart’s position within the Masonic movement, according to [...]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Ascanio In Alba

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Ascanio In Alba Recorded in Paris between 16th and 24th of September, 1990 About the Opera: Ascanio in Alba, KV 111, is an Italian pastoral opera in two acts written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1771, Based on the play by Count Claudio Nicolo Stampa with libretto by Giuseppe Parini. Mozart [...]

G.F. Händel & W.A. Mozart – Acis Und Galatea

Acis and Galatea (HWV 49) was originally a masque composed by George Frideric Händel. He first composed this piece while he was living at Cannons (the seat of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos) during the summer of 1718.