Mozart's Vienna Contemporaries
Part Four
Thursday 28 December 2006 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Repeated: Thursday 4 January 2007 0:00-1:00 (Radio 3)
Mozart's Vienna Contemporaries (1788-1789). In 1788, Don Giovanni reaches Vienna. But Mozart is short of money and borrows heavily while writing his last three symphonies. The following year, as Paris erupts, he makes an extended continental journey in search of commissions. Back in Vienna, his competitors thrive.
Playlist
Gazzaniga: Due baronesse amabili (L'isola d'Alcina)
Roberto Scaltriti (baritone)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset (conductor)
L'Oiseau-Lyre 458 557-2 CD 1 T13
Salieri: Il Talismano - overture
Czechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Michael Dittrich (conductor)
Naxos 8.554838 CD1 T1
Mozart: Un bacio di mano, K541 (aria for Pasquale Anfossi's Le gelosie fortunate)
Roberto Scaltriti (baritone)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset (conductor)
L'Oiseau-Lyre 458 557-2
Mozart: Nine Variations in D on a Minuet by Jean-Pierre Duport, K573.
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Philips 426 272-2
CD1 t1
Salieri: Non vo' gia che vi suonino (La cifra)
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Adam Fischer (conductor)
Decca 475 100-2 CD1 t5
Mozart: Alma grande e nobil core, K578 (aria for Cimarosa's I due baroni di Rocca Azzura)
Edith Mathis (soprano)
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Leopold Hager (conductor)
Philips 422 77102 CD4 T9
Martin y Soler: Il Burbero di buon core (Act 1 finale)
Gloria Banditelli (soprano)
Umberto Chiummo (baritone)
Montserrat Figueras (soprano)
Francesc Garrigosa (bass)
Eva Kirchner (soprano)
Ernesto Palacio (tenor)
Luigi Petroni (tenor)
Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall (conductor)
Alia Vox 9833 CD1 t23