Tag: mozart
Mozart - Requiem (Lacrimosa): A Divine Masterpiece
Mozart's "Requiem in D minor," K. 626, is a profound and evocative choral work written for the Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead. Composed in 1791, it was left incomplete at Mozart's death, and was later finished by his student Franz Xaver Süssmayr.
Mozart - History's Greatest Child Prodigy Documentary
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time.
Mozart's "Don Giovanni"
Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanish legend about a libertine as told by playwright Tirso de Molina in his 1630 play El burlador de Se...
Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro"
Composed in 1786, Mozart's classic opera has all the ingredients of a modern rom com: love, revenge and deception.
Randall Goosby Plays Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
Louis Langrée conducts the inaugural Avery Fisher Legacy Concert, featuring Tchaikovsky's celebrated Violin Concerto with the astonishing Randall Goosby, recipient of a 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant.
How Mozart Changed Opera Forever
Mozart's collaboration with Lorenzo Da Ponte was legendary. Here is how Mozart's two great operatic achievements, The Marriage of Figaro (La Nozze di Figaro) and Don Giovanni revolutionised the genre of opera.
Julie Andrews ...The Sound Of Christmas
Julie Andrews teams up with country music legend John Denver and world renowned tenor Plácido Domingo to capture the spirit of Christmas in this one hour 1987 TV Special.
The Magic Flute by W A Mozart
A Christmas Film Production with BBC Enterprises and BBC Bristol in association with Welsh National Opera
The Secrets Of Mozart’s “Magic Flute”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” (“The Magic Flute”) is widely regarded as one of the most influential operas in history. And while it may seem like a childish fairytale at first glance, it’s actually full of subversive symbolism. Joshua Borths...
The Untold Story of Joseph Bologne, the Prodigy known as "Black Mozart"
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was a French Creole virtuoso violinist and composer, who was conductor of the leading symphony orchestra in Paris.
Confutatis Maledictis
From the movie "Amadeus". Mozart's Requiem is one of the most well-known musical compositions in the world, and Confutatis is a very good example of much of the musical technique that Mozart used that made him and many other musicians so successful.
The Magic Flute – Queen of the Night aria
Soprano Diana Damrau sings 'Der Hölle Rache', the famous Queen of the Night aria from Mozart's The Magic Flute, with Dorothea Röschmann as Pamina.
Mozart's F Major Sonata, K. 332 with Sara Davis Buechner
Mozart was famous for his melodies, and the first movement of his F Major Sonata, K. 332, is full of them. Join Sara Davis Buechner as she shows you with characteristic wit how to make your fingers sing in this memorable piece.
Autumn Leaves in the Styles of 10 Classical Composers
How would these famous classical composers have arranged Autumn Leaves?? Composers included: Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Gershwin, Shostakovich, Philip Glass.