All Mozart articles – Page 4
-
Review
Quartetto di Cremona: Italian Postcards
Richly characterised musical postcards for armchair travellers
-
Review
Christoph Koncz: Mozart’s Violin
Mozart concertos, intriguingly played on the composer’s own instrument
-
Focus
What is it like to play Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s own violin?
Christoph Koncz, principal second violinist of the Vienna Philharmonic, shares his experience
-
Video
Christoph Koncz plays Mozart on the composer’s own violin
Christoph Koncz, principal violinist of the Vienna Philharmonic and conductor, was granted exclusive access to Mozart’s own violin to record Mozart’s five Violin Concertos on the composer’s own violin for the first time ever. Here, you can hear a preview of the album, which comes out on 9 October. Read: ...
-
Review
Jacques Thibaud String Trio: Mozart
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: November 2020 Description: Trio’s pitch-perfect approach to Mozart yields many delights Musicians: Jacques Thibaud String Trio Works: Mozart: Complete String Trios Catalogue number: AUDITE 97773 The Jacques Thibaud String Trio has Mozart’s E flat major Trio K563 down to the finest ...
-
News
Ave verum Kürbis: Enormous pumpkin grown to Mozart’s music
Japanese farmer Hiroyoshi Utsunomiya wins national contest with his classically inspired vegetable
-
-
News
Clarissa Bevilacqua wins International Mozart Competition
The 18-year-old takes home €11,000 in prize money at the Salzburg-based contest
-
Review
Concert review: Carolin Widmann (violin) Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Bruce Hodges hears the concert at New York’s 92nd Street Y, on 7 December 2019
-
Feature
The heart of Amadeus: Postcard from Zhuhai
Peter Quantrill hears Mozartians of the future competing in the violin category of the biennial Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians – by the shores of China’s Pearl River
-
Review
Quatuor Voce: Mozart and Schubert
Eloquent playing, blurring the boundary between major and minor
-
Review
Michael Barenboim, Kian Soltani: Mozart
A ‘friends and family’ trio displays musical chemistry and superb artistry
-
Premium ❘ Debate
Early vibrato was one aspect of a vastly different sound world
A response to Beverly Jerold’s article 'Did early string players use continuous vibrato?' by Kevin Class
-
Review
Gunar Letzbor, Erich Traxler: Mozart
Unbalanced recording mars moments of elegance and beauty
-
-
Review
Quatuor Zaïde: The Magic Flute arranged for quartet
Fluteless but still magic: Mozart’s opera in string quartet arrangement
-
Focus
Isabelle Faust on how playing period instruments has improved her bowing
Our January 2019 issue cover star on bringing her unusually active and flexible right arm technique to bear with a classical Tourte bow and the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Strad
-
Video
Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman: Mozart Duo
In this extract from a film by Christopher Nupen, Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman perform together in concert at the Royal College of Music, London, in 1978. The work is Mozart’s Duo for Violin and Viola no.1 in G Major K423. The entire concert is available on the Allegro Films ...
-
Review
Caroline Goulding: Concertos by Korngold and Mozart
Prizewinning violinist’s debut concerto disc doesn’t disappoint
-
Review
Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien: Mozart Violin Sonatas, vol.5
Another outstanding Mozart release from this partnership