It was 39 seasons ago that conductor George Cleve launched his Midsummer Mozart Festival with a performance of Mozart's Symphony No. 39. Appropriately, that piece resurfaced Thursday night in the ...
Gardiner has been immersed in this music for the best part of 40 years, but his Mozart still sounds up-to-the-minute. These performances, taped at the end of an English Baroque Soloists tour in 2006, ...
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 ...
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This weekend at Jones Hall, under the baton of guest conductor Gilbert Varga, the Houston Symphony performs Mendelssohn’s lovely Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 in E ...
Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Mozart wrote the final three symphonies in a ...
Eight days ago, John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists gave a Mozart concert in London's Cadogan Hall. The first half consisted of these two symphonies, which were recorded live and, ...
There aren’t many René Jacobs performances that you can get through without raising an eyebrow or gasping in surprise at some moment of sheer bravado in the music-making. What can make Jacobs such an ...
A curious gathering of potent spirits has been brewing over the last decade in Boston, Massachusetts. First, in 2008, Harry Christophers replaced Grant Llewellyn as (who, in turn, had replaced Sir ...
Mozart wrote his first symphony when he was just eight years old, and clocked up 40 more in just over two decades. But where do you start? And which one is best? From 'Paris' to 'Jupiter', Classic FM ...
Mozart's Symphony No 39 in E flat is something of a Cinderella among the composer's final three, great symphonies. Judging by the last five years' listings in The Ticket, No 40 outperforms it by a ...