The opening Allegro immediately delivers a feeling of restlessness, as divided violas accompany the principal subject in quiet agitation. The tone of this subject is both poignant and tense, and ...
The Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center has been in high gear and motors on into the August heat with two all-Mozart orchestral programs, featuring pianists Richard Goode and Jeffrey Kahane as ...
Are “symphonies” just containers into which composers pour their orchestral inspirations? Thursday evening's Cleveland ...
Toward the end of his life Mozart composed a miracle even by his own lofty standards – three immortal symphonies that emerged within the period of just a few weeks in the summer of 1788. Virtually ...
It’s a truism that stories with tragic endings often get viewed in reverse, which is to say, the ending colors all that comes before. Take Mozart. We know what was in store. We’ve seen the movie. And ...
Experience the intensity of Mozart's unconventional Symphony No. 40 as Music Director Christopher Warren-Green takes the baton in this digital performance. Arguably Mozart's most popular symphony, ...
The November 2014 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” features important works created by the man Martin Bookspan called “one of the principal ...
Soprano Alexandra Nowakowski, a recent graduate of the Academy of Vocal Arts, joins Symphony in C for Exsultate Jubilate, K. 165, appearing courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera where she is currently ...
Symphony No. 33 in B-Flat Major, K. 319: I. Allegro assai Symphony No. 33 in B-Flat Major, K. 319: II. Andante moderato Symphony No. 33 in B-Flat Major, K. 319: III. Menuetto - Trio Symphony No. 33 in ...
Symphony No. 16 in C Major, K128: I. Allegro maestoso Symphony No. 20 in D Major, K133: I. Allegro Symphony No. 21 in A Major, K134: I. Allegro Symphony No. 16 in C Major, K128: II. Andante grazioso ...