Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He wrote over 600 works, many of them pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic and choral music, and remains among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.
Born in Salzburg in 1756, he was a celebrated child performer and composer before settling in Vienna, where he wrote much of the music for which he is best known. Late works include the operas Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte and Die Zauberflöte, the final symphonies, the Clarinet Concerto, and the unfinished Requiem.
His style joined clarity and grace with real depth of feeling. That balance has shaped Western art music ever since, and his catalogue still anchors concert, chamber and opera programmes around the world.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is featured on the following titles
Mozart: Sonatas K. 570, 282, 333
Geoffrey Lancaster returns with three Mozart keyboard sonatas on fortepiano. His earlier Tall Poppies set of the K. 330–332 group had already won strong critical notice.
Mozart: Keyboard Sonatas, K. 330-332
By 2017 Geoffrey Lancaster was deep into the fifth decade of his performing career. Tall Poppies first recorded him in Mozart in 1991, accompanying the Song Company on Mozart Unexpurgated. A quarter-century later he returns to the composer with three of the best-loved keyboard sonatas.
Mozart & Brahms: The Clarinet Quintets
Catherine McCorkill joins the Australia Ensemble for two pillars of the clarinet chamber repertoire: Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581, on basset clarinet, and Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115.
Mozart: Quartet KV 465, Quintet KV 516
Recorded in the spacious drawing room at Melbourne's Government House, this disc was sponsored by the Sydney Mozart Society.
Mozart: The Wind Quartets
The Australia Ensemble, with Geoffrey Collins (flute) and David Nuttall (oboe), play Mozart’s four flute quartets and the Oboe Quartet. The recording was the Recommended Performance in the 1995 Gramophone Good CD Guide.
Mozart: Sonatas for Fortepiano
Three Mozart fortepiano sonatas from Geoffrey Lancaster, first-prize winner at Bruges and a forthright, well-researched voice who has long unsettled early-music orthodoxy in Australia.
Compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart also appear on
Porgy & Bess Fantasy: Music for Two Pianos
In the early 1980s two of Australia’s finest pianists joined forces in masterpieces of the piano-duet literature. The set draws on concert and studio sessions from a period when such collaborations were still readily captured.
Mozartrois: The Complete Piano Trios
Recorded in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House, this two-disc set is a landmark Australian account of Mozart’s piano trios, and includes the seventh and most recently identified work of the group.
Souvenir
An engaging collection of violin and piano works, several drawn from the Australian Music Examinations Board violin syllabus, spanning salon pieces, spirituals and early Mozart.
Rita Hunter in Concert
Rita Hunter is one of the great unsung heroines among sopranos. This live London concert from the 1970s catches her at her best in a programme of variety and passion.
Mozart Unexpurgated
The Song Company sings Mozart’s scatological canons and songs, with fortepianist Geoffrey Lancaster improvising the accompaniments and taking two irreverent solo turns.
For Children
Geoffrey Tozer plays piano music by Bach, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Schubert, Prokofiev, Bartók and Schumann written especially for children.