... on records |THE MOODS OF MOZART SPIKE HUGHES Over the years I have developed an extremely pessimistic ap proach to music and its per formance. I expect the worst, so that when I don't get it the surprise and relief are so won darful I feel like the man ...

... How long Mozart had to wait J. Rog r Baker The steady growth to popu larity of Mozart's first major opera, Idomeneo, is an interesting reflection of the musical temper of the times. It was inevitable that this work should be the last of Mozart's large-scale ...

... in the city where, after Salzburg, Mozart is possibly more appre ciated than anywhere else in the world. The editing and translation from the German has been done by Richard and Clara Winston. The world in which Mozart lived was a world of contrasts: of ...

... Julie-Kate Olivier showed a spark ling talent as Mozart's loving, common little wife, and from his whinneying laugh to his increasing despair, Russell Porter was faultless as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart himself. David Leonard was magnetically watchable as ...

... HEMSLEY, CATHERINE WILSON, JOHN WAKEFIELD, CONDUCTOR: COLIN DAVIS) SOMETIMES IT SEEMS THAT PRODUCERS HAVE only two approaches to Mozart's comedies (apart from Franco Zeffirelli who is an exception to any generalization); one clinical and deodorized, the other ...

... BASTIEN BASTIENNE BY MOZART DIVERTIMENTI BY MOZART PELLEAS MELISANDE BY FAURE WAGNER SCENES CONDUCTED BY TOSCANINI WITH GLYNDEBOURNE STARTING UP AGAIN ON Monday week [21 May] one's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of Mozart. The first Mozart opera ever performed ...

... Shaffer's superb drama, Amadeus, as he and the excellent cast explore the Salieri legend. Fact or myth, did he poison the genius Mozart? Or was it the only way the mediocre composer Salieri could achieve posterity as his fake murderer? John Telfer excels, missing ...

... sionally only once before in this country (Glyndebourne, 1951) and it reveals an unfamiliar Mozart. The music is cast in that dazzling, extravagant mould that Mozart himself sent up in Cosi fan tutte, and needs a much more confident vocal standard, a crisper ...

... fact, another perfect coupling Mozart: Cosi fan Tutte, high lights (ASD 2265). As I have re marked before, operatic high lights do not generally please me, as, usually, they make one wish to possess the whole work. But Mozart can be more easily carved up ...

... Songs and Arias by Handel, A Scarlatti, Pergolesi, Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Boito, Puccini, Faure, Ileana Constan- tinou, soprano, Geoffrey Parsons, piano. 7.30 W 11 May: Works by Stanitz, Mozart, etc. Melos Ensemble. 7.30 ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, South Bank ...

... cording (Pierre Monteux's first Mozart, the first and only record of father and son at work, and so on), but quite maddeningly tantalizing in the brief glimpses it gives us of the conductor's crystal clear way with Mozart's music. Claude Monteux plays admirably ...

... best works are usually born of a troubled soul are Mozart's Violin Con certos, Nos 4 and 5. These were written in 1775 whilst he was a violinist at the court of the Archbishop of Salzburg. Perhaps Mozart's misery, however, might have been consider ably ...