Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart’s Gran Partita for wind instruments has surprising affinity with the French organ world of the Age of Enlightenment, as exemplified by Vincent Genvrin’s transcription and performance. The ca. 1783 composition has been recorded on the famous 1777 Clicquot organ of Saint-Nicolas des Champs à Paris.

It was Wendling who enabled Mozart to reach a new understanding of the flute’s possibilities and potential. Krabach plays these works on a wooden transverse flute which has a modern key mechanism. He is able to produce a darker, mellower sound without compromising on intonation and precision.

The award-winning Dutch Academy play on authentic instruments. Simon Murphy too has been awarded industry prizes for his performing and recording work. This is a world premiere recording.

The Trio de Clarone ensemble has chosen Mozart’s involvement with Bach’s music as a theme for its new CD. They have selected compositions that reveal Mozart’s view of Bach. In 1782 Mozart wrote to his father “Every Sunday at 12 o’clock I go to hear the music at Baron van Swieten’s - there they play nothing else but Handel and Bach. I have also started collecting Bach fugues….”

Irmgard Seefried’s interpretation of the Composer in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos is said to have inspired Strauss himself to exclaim that until then he had not known how good his Composer was. She was also one of the most sought-after concert singers and lieder recitalists of her age. Not released until now, the many recordings included in the present CD attest to the richness and variety of that palette even during the early years of her career. The earliest of these recordings are Peter Cornelius's Brautlieder from the heyday of the Romantic art song, settings in which the soprano's exemplary treatment of the words and the vocal line are fully in evidence.The affinities between this cycle of six songs and the traditional German folksong offer the singer - a native of Swabia - a welcome opportunity to colour her tone even further, an approach that is also found in her recordings of songs by Mozart, Brahms,Wolf and two lesser-known composers, Wilhelm Kienzl and Joseph Marx.This compilation of Irmgard Seefried's recordings from the first ten years of her career in Vienna additionally includes some of Strauss's most popular songs, songs such as Morgen and Allerseelen that make it clear why, as we noted above, their composer held the soprano in such high regard.

The second volume in the complete recordings of Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ Quartets. The ‘Last’ Quartets have long been considered definitive.

The Chilingirian String Quartet are joined by Yuko Inoue, viola.