Presto Music Classical Podcast,
Episode 36: I've Started, So I'll Finish – A Return to Mozart with Robert Levin
Back in the 1990s, when your author was very young, distinguished Mozartian scholar-pianist Robert Levin set out to record a complete set of Mozart's works for keyboard and orchestra. After several highly successful and critically-acclaimed volumes over the following decade, Fate eventually intervened to force the project into the deep freeze, and on that unsatisfying note the story might have ended.
Happily, though, circumstances have now opened up the opportunity to pick things up again. The concluding five volumes are now very much in motion, with the first released recently in March, and it's full steam ahead for the remainder of this much-loved and much-needed cycle. I caught up with Robert to talk about this project, and his work as a reconstructer and completer of the surprisingly large number of Mozart works that have only come down to us as fragments.
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The music played in this episode...
Robert Levin (fortepiano), The Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr
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Robert Levin (fortepiano), The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
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Robert Levin (fortepiano), The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
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Ruth Ziesak (soprano), Nancy Maultsby (mezzo-soprano), Richard Croft (tenor), David Arnold (baritone), Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman
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Rachel Podger (violin), Christopher Glynn (fortepiano)
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Robert Levin (piano), Gérard Poulet (violin)
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Heinz Holliger (oboe), Hermann Baumann (horn), Aurele Nicolet (flute), Klaus Thunemann (bassoon), Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner
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