More Mozart from Decca, Philips and Deutsche Grammophon, including the complete music for horn in a generous 2CD set from Barry Tuckwell.

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Catalogue Number:
 477 5756
Barcode:
 002894775756
Label:
 DG 20CD
Release date:
4 February

The Mozart Collection - 20-CD limited edition slipcase: the composer's must-have masterpieces in the most acclaimed performances from the Deutsche Grammophon, Decca and Philips catalogues.

The titles are also singly available and listed below.
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Catalogue Number:
 475 7056
Barcode:
 0028947570561
Label:
 Decca CD
Release date:
4 February

ARTISTS
Dame Kiri te Kanawa · Kathleen Battle · Sumi Jo · Anna Netrebko, sopranos
Placido Domingo · Fritz Wunderlich · Luciano Pavarotti, tenors
Hermann Prey · Bryn Terfel, baritones
Martti Talvela, bass

TRACKLISTING
Arias, duets and scenes from
Zaide · Idomeneo · Die Entführung aus dem Serail · Die Zauberflöte

Mozart wrote some of the most psychologically acute works ever produced on the musical stage. Zaide is a German Singspiel written in Salzburg that he left unfinished. Idomeneo, a magnificent opera seria written for Munich, was his first masterpiece and in its dramatic choral writing and the richness of its orchestration is a work he never surpassed. The Turkish-themed Die Entführung aus dem Serail spread Mozart's name throughout the German lands. Die Zauberflöte is a profound allegory of Freemasonry combined with popular Viennese theatrical elements which has enchanted music lovers ever since its first performance near the end of Mozart's brief life.

This compilation features some of the most celebrated singers of our day, performing the most famous music from these operatic masterpieces by Mozart.
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Catalogue Number:
 475 7054
Barcode:
 0028947570547
Label:
 Decca CD
Release date:
4 February

ARTISTS
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano (K. 452 & 448)
London Wind Soloists (K. 452)
Members of the Melos Quartet (K. 478)
Sir Georg Solti, piano (K. 478)
Malcolm Frager, piano (K. 448)

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Quintet for Piano, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn & Bassoon in E flat, K.452
Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, K.478
Sonata for 2 pianos in D, K.448

Two of Mozart's most forward-looking and sophisticated works are contained on this disc, the chamber pieces with piano, including the Quintet for Piano and Wind that he himself considered at the time to be 'the best work I have ever composed'.

Decca's star pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy is the principal soloist whilst the Piano Quartet features a rare appearance by the late conductor Sir Georg Solti at the keyboard.
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Catalogue Number:
 475 7051
Barcode:
 0028947570516
Label:
 Decca CD
Release date:
4 February

ARTISTS
Barry Tuckwell, horn
English Chamber Orchestra · Barry Tuckwell

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Horn Concerto in D, K.412/514 (Allegro K.412 & Rondo K.514)
Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat, K.417
Horn Concerto No.3 in E flat, K.447
Horn Concerto No.4 in E flat, K.495
Fragment in E flat for horn & orchestra, K 370 b
Rondo for Horn and Orchestra in E flat, K.371
Rondo in D for Horn and Orchestra, K.514
Fragment from Horn Concerto in E major, K.Anh.98 A

Mozart's four Concertos for Horn are a challenge not just to the player's virtuosity and skill, but in their warmth and effervescence they call for something truly special. Here Barry Tuckwell's musicality and spontaneity, with a ready response from the players of the English Chamber Orchestra, result in a classic recording, in the words of The Gramophone, 'deliciously performed and ideally recorded... a worthy tribute to one of the great horn players of our time'.
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Catalogue Number:
 475 7050
Barcode:
 0028947570509
Label:
 Philips CD
Release date:
4 February

ARTISTS
Alfred Brendel, piano
The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K.466
Piano Concerto No.23 in A, K.488
Concert Rondo for Piano and Orchestra in D. K.382
Rondo for Piano and Orchestra in A, K.386

Working together in perfect harmony - Brendel once described Marriner as 'an extension of my right arm' - pianist and conductor here perform two of the greatest works to have come from Mozart's pen, the intense D minor and moving A major Piano Concertos.

The Gramophone has described Brendel's partnership in Mozart with Sir Neville Marriner as having produced 'some of the most exultant music making on record... a ready and attentive response to the greatest of all concertos, to music in which rain and sunshine, tears and laughter are inextricably mixed.'

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Catalogue Number:
 475 7058
Barcode:
 0028947570585
Label:
 Philips CD
Release date:
4 February

ARTISTS
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano
Elizabeth Bainbridge, contralto
Ryland Davies, tenor
Gwynne Howell, bass
London Symphony Chorus
John Constable, organ
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Vesperae solennes de confessore in C, K.339
Kyrie in D minor, K.341
Ave verum corpus, K.618
Exsultate, jubilate, K.165

'This disc could hardly present a more delightful collection of Mozart choral music,' wrote The Penguin Guide, 'ranging from the early soprano cantata, Exsultate, jubilate, with its famous setting of Alleluia, to the equally popular Ave verum. Kiri Te Kanawa is the brilliant soloist in the cantata, and her radiant account of the lovely Laudate Dominum is one of the high spots of the Solemn Vespers, here given a fine, responsive performance.'

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Catalogue Number:
 475 7057
Barcode:
 0028947570578
Label:
 Philips CD
Release date:
4 February

ARTISTS
Barbara Bonney, soprano
Anne-Sofie von Otter, contralto
Hans Peter Blochwitz, tenor
Sir Willard White, bass
The Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Requiem in D minor, K.626

Endlessly fascinating, Mozart's Requiem is one of his best-loved works. For this recording John Eliot Gardiner follows the version completed by Süssmayr, Mozart's pupil and assistant.

With 'some first-rate solo singing' from a top-flight team, 'plenty of cut and thrust', 'great athleticism' and 'expressive weight' in the big choruses, and 'well audible' inner detail in the orchestral playing of the period-instrument band , this is a recording that takes you to the heart of the music. The Gramophone
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Catalogue Number:
 475 7053
Barcode:
 0028947570530
Label:
 Decca CD
Release date:

4 February

ARTISTS
Michael Laird, posthorn (K. 320)
Iona Brown, violin (K. 239)
Malcolm Latchem, violin (K. 239)
Stephen Shingles, viola (K. 239)
Raymund Koster, double bass (K. 239)
The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Serenade in G, K.525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik'
Serenade in D, K.320 'Posthorn'
Serenata notturna in D, K.239

Some of Mozart's warmest and most appealing music is to be heard in his orchestral serenades, and these recordings by Marriner and his players meet all the requirements. For The Penguin Guide they simply 'sweep the board', with a 'Posthorn' Serenade that is 'cultured, warm, spacious and marvellously played', a 'first class' Serenata notturna and a 'polished and elegant' account of the best-known of all, Eine kleine Nachtmusik.
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Catalogue Number:
 475 7052
Barcode:
 0028947570523
Label:
 Decca CD
Release date:

4 February

ARTISTS
Jack Brymer, clarinet
The Allegri String Quartet: Hugh Maguire, David Roth, Patrick Ireland, Bruno Schrecker (K. 581)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622
Clarinet Quintet in A, K.581

The late Jack Brymer shared his birthday with Mozart, and the composer's music was a constant element in his long career. He made recordings of all Mozart's clarinet works, including no fewer than three versions of the Concerto. This 1988 recording has been judged the finest, displaying, as described in The Gramophone, 'Brymer's art at its greatest in the two greatest works ever written for the instrument'.
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Catalogue Number:
 475 7055
Barcode:
 0028947570554
Label:
 Philips CD
Release date:
4 February

ARTISTS
Mitsuko Uchida, piano

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Piano Sonata No.11 in A, K.331 -'Alla Turca'
Piano Sonata No.12 in F, K.332
Fantasia in D minor, K.397
Piano Sonata No.8 in A minor, K.310

Mozart's Piano Sonatas, possibly the last of his works to receive the benefit of the sea change in ideas about the composer in recent decades, have now become staples of the concert repertoire, and Mitsuko Uchida has been one of their most committed advocates. Heard here in recordings of three of the sonatas and the popular D minor Fantasia, she produces what The Penguin Guide has described as 'playing of consistently fine sense and sound musicianship. Every phrase is beautifully placed, every detail registers.'
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Catalogue Number:
 477 5749
Barcode:
 0028947757498
Label:
 DG CD
Release date:
4 February

ARTISTS
Wolfgang Schulz, flute (K. 299)
Werner Tripp, flute (K. 313)
Nicanor Zabaleta, harp (K. 299)
Dietmar Zeman, bassoon (K. 191)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Karl Böhm

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra in C, K.299
Flute Concerto No.1 in G, K.313
Bassoon Concerto in B flat, K.191

The CD represents Mozart at his most elegant in music for sophisticated players of flute and harp, together with the early concerto for bassoon.

Giving what The Penguin Guide described as 'meltingly beautiful accounts', the players of the solo concertos 'perform with the utmost distinction under Böhm, who lets the music unfold in an unforced way, relaxed yet vital.'
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Catalogue Number:
 477 5748
Barcode:
 0028947757481
Label:
 DG CD
Release date:
4 February

ARTISTS
Gidon Kremer, violin
Wiener Philharmoniker
Nikolaus Harnoncourt

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Violin Concerto No.3 in G, K.216
Violin Concerto No.4 in D, K.218
Violin Concerto No.5 in A, K.219

On this disc, two strong musical personalities, Kremer and Harnoncourt, take a fresh and at times provocative look at the last three of Mozart's concertos for violin. In the third and fourth, the Penguin Guide found a combination of sweet playing from Kremer and individual touches from Harnoncourt, while the London Daily Telegraph praised an 'immaculate' account of the fifth, a performance of 'superlative vitality and finesse.'
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Catalogue Number:
 477 5746
Barcode:
 0028947757467
Label:
 DG CD
Release date:
4 February

ARTISTS
Berliner Philharmoniker
Karl Böhm

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Symphony No.38 in D, K.504 'Prague
Symphony No.39 in E flat, K.543
Symphony No.41 in C, K.551 - 'Jupiter'

Böhm's Mozart symphony recordings with the Berliner Philharmoniker from the 1960s represent a high-point in the tradition of Mozart playing before the advent of the period-instrument movement. In the words of The Gramophone, these 'warm and genial' performances tell the listener that 'for the players as well as the conductor this was a voyage of discovery. This, one feels, is music-making for music-lovers, not musicologists'.
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Catalogue Number:
 477 5745
Barcode:
 0028947757450
Label:
 DG CD
Release date:
4 February

ARTISTS
Wiener Philharmoniker
Leonard Bernstein

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Symphony No.35 in D, K.385 'Haffner'
Symphony No.36 in C, K.425 - 'Linz'
Symphony No.40 in G minor, K.550

Leonard Bernstein, music's great communicator, and one of the 20th century's most versatile and articulate conductors, here leads the Vienna Philharmonic in music from the very heart of the classical repertoire. The disc includes Bernstein's only recording of the 'Haffner' Symphony, and an account of the nervy and restless G minor Symphony that The Penguin Guide describes as 'electrifying... keenly dramatic, individual and stylish, with the finale delightfully airy and fresh.'
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Catalogue Number:
 477 5747
Barcode:
 0028947757474
Label:
 DG CD
Release date:
4 February

ARTISTS
Maria João Pires, piano
Wiener Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Piano Concerto No.14 in E flat, K.449
Concerto No.17 in G, K.453
Piano Concerto No.21 in C, K.467

Maria João Pires and Claudio Abbado here join together to give accounts of three Mozart piano concertos, two written for his pupil Barbara Ployer and one containing the famous slow movement featured in the popular 1967 Swedish film Elvira Madigan.

Pires's performance of that movement was described in The Gramophone as 'not at all romanticized, but admirably poised', and the version of the G major Concerto singled out for 'truly outstanding Mozart playing', and 'shapely phrasing and lovely sonorities'.
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Catalogue Number:
 477 5753
Barcode:
 0028947757535
Label:
 DG CD
Release date:
4 February

ARTISTS
Natalie Dessay · Dawn Upshaw · Gundula Janowitz · Renée Fleming · Anna Netrebko, sopranos
Anne Sofie von Otter · Cecilia Bartoli · Brigitte Fassbaender, mezzos
Juan Diego Flórez, tenor
Bryn Terfel, baritone

TRACKLISTING
Arias, duets and scenes from
Mitridate · Le nozze di Figaro · Don Giovanni · Così fan tutte

Mozart was a boy of 14 in 1770 when he wrote Mitridate, an opera seria for Milan, where it ran for more than 20 performances. Between 1786 and 1790, to brilliant librettos by Lorenzo Da Ponte, he composed three supreme masterpieces of opera buffa, searching explorations of society and sexuality. Le nozze di Figaro scored a triumph in Vienna in 1786; Don Giovanni was a great success at its premiere in Prague in 1787; and the musically exquisite, morally complex Così fan tutte was successfully introduced in Vienna in 1790. Nowadays, all three Mozart-Da Ponte collaborations belong to every opera house's permanent repertoire.

This compilation features some of the most celebrated singers of our day, performing the most famous music from these operatic masterpieces by Mozart.
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Catalogue Number:
 477 5754
Barcode:
 0028947757542
Label:
 DG CD
Release date:
4 February

ARTISTS
Barbara Hendricks, soprano (K. 427)
Janet Perry, soprano (K. 427)
Peter Schreier, tenor (K. 427)
Benjamin Luxon, baritone (K. 427)
David Bell, organ (K. 427)
Wiener Singverein (K. 427)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Mass in C minor, K.427 'Grosse Messe'
Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K.546 - Orchestral version

The authoritative Penguin Guide lauded the present recording, writing: 'In his (1982) digital recording of the C minor Mass Karajan gives Handelian splendour to this greatest of Mozart's choral works ... Solo singing is first rate, particularly that of Barbara Hendricks, the dreamy beauty of her voice ravishingly caught ... The sound is both rich and vivid.'
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Catalogue Number:
 477 5752
Barcode:
 0028947757528
Label:
 DG CD
Release date:
4 February

ARTISTS
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Daniel Barenboim, piano

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Sonata for Piano and Violin in G, K.301
Sonata for Piano and Violin in E minor, K.304
Sonata for Piano and Violin in B flat, K.378
Sonata for Piano and Violin in A, K.526

Mozart was instrumental in developing the sonata for piano and violin from its modest origins in domestic music-making to a powerful, integrated means of expression. With what The Gramophone magazine described as 'impeccable teamwork', Barenboim and Perlman here perform music ranging from Mozart's first published works in the genre to the greatest of the composer's sonatas for the two instruments.
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Catalogue Number:
 477 5751
Barcode:
 0028947757511
Label:
 DG CD
Release date:
4 February

ARTISTS
Emerson String Quartet

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: String Quartet No.15 in D minor, K.421
String Quartet No.17 in B flat, K.458 -'The Hunt'
String Quartet No.19 in C, K.465 - 'Dissonance'

Some of Mozart's most searching and concentrated music is to be found in the six String Quartets he dedicated to Haydn in 1785. The Emerson String Quartet here tackle three, including the 'Dissonance', which belies the innocence of its C major key by opening with one of the most arresting passages in Mozart, and a harbinger of the route that the string quartet was to take in pushing the boundaries of music.
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Catalogue Number:
 477 5755
Barcode:
 0028947757559
Label:
 DG CD
Release date:
4 February

ARTISTS
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Chaim Jouval, oboe (K. 190)
Marcel Bergman, cello (K. 190)
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Sinfonia concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E flat, K.364
Concertone for 2 Violins and Orchestra in C, K.190

Music from the turning-point in Mozart's life, when he made the transition from the child prodigy he had been, through the challenging times of his early twenties, to become the mature artist of the Viennese years. The sublime Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola was recorded live at the 1982 Huberman Festival. Reviewing the first release of the recording, The Gramophone found the performance 'superb', and 'the rapport between Perlman and Zukerman ... almost uncanny: they play as one'.
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Catalogue Number:
 477 5750
Barcode:
 0028947757504
Label:
 DG CD
Release date:
4 February

ARTISTS
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Serenade in B flat, K.361 'Gran partita'
Serenade in E flat, K.375

Mozart's skill in writing for wind instruments is a key element in the creation of his special orchestral sound, and these two serenades, written at a time when the fashion for wind-band music was at its height, demonstrate the very essence of his style. The performances combine solo playing described in The Gramophone as 'exquisite' and 'impeccably neat', with a purity of tonal matching and 'happy touches within the accompanying texture'.
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Catalogue Number:
 475 7104
Barcode:
 0028947571049
Label:
 Decca 2CD Slimline
Release date:
4 February

ARTISTS
Barry Tuckwell, horn
Derek Wickens, oboe
Robert Hill, clarinet
Martin Gatt, bassoon
Sheila Armstrong, soprano
Kenneth Sillito, violin
Kenneth Essex, viola
Ian Jewel, viola
Kenneth Harvey, cello
John Ogdon, piano
English Chamber Orchestra

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Horn Concerto No.1 in D major, K412
Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat major, K417
Horn Concerto No.3 in E flat major, K447
Horn Concerto No.4 in E flat major, K495
'Se il padre perdei' Idomeneo
Fragment in E flat major, K370b
Rondo in E flat major, K371
Fragment in D major, K514
Fragment in E major, K.Anh.98a 3:04
Sinfonia concertante in E flat major, K.Anh.9/297B
Quintet in E flat major for horn and strings, K407
Duets for Two Horns, K487
Quintet in E flat major for piano and winds, K452
cadenzas by Barry Tuckwell

Released at the start of the Mozart 250th Anniversary Year in 2006 this 2-for-1 specially priced CD set is devoted to Mozart's horn music. As well as including the ever-popular horn concertos and the horn quintet, it also includes fascinating fragments for horn and an aria for soprano with horn solo from the opera Idomeneo.

The horn player in all of these recordings is one of the finest players of the modern French horn in the past forty years, Barry Tuckwell. In March 2006 Barry Tuckwell will celebrate his 75th birthday and this Mozart collection also serves as an appropriate birthday tribute to this outstanding artist

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