Thrilling new interpretations of Mozart's final symphonies. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 4 August 2014. The great conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt sees Mozart's last three symphonies effectively as ...

The opening Allegro immediately delivers a feeling of restlessness, as divided violas accompany the principal subject in quiet agitation. The tone of this subject is both poignant and tense, and ...

Born on January 27 1756 in Salzburg, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart would go on to be one of the most-loved classical composers of all time. His operas, concertos, symphonies and sonatas went on to shape ...

Days of looking at crossed-out dates on original manuscripts with magnifying glass reveals different dates on five works from composer’s early period Mozart symphonies from one of the most important ...

Symphony No. 35, "Haffner" Il Pomo d'Oro Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 Il Pomo d'Oro Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor Symphony No. 36, "Linz" Il Pomo d'Oro Maxim ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: the ultimate child prodigy. He started playing piano at the age of three and is credited with writing his first symphony at the age of eight. Some claimed his talent was a ...

Conductor Ian Page has embarked on a 27-year project to play Mozart’s music, in order, 250 years after it was written. He has reached 1766, when Mozart was 10 and his music was already breaking new ...

Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro wasn't quite the great success he hoped it would be when it premiered in Vienna in May 1786, but when it was performed in Prague in December of that year it was a ...

A collection of performances to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth ...