Mozart Violin Concertos

Spotlight: The Yundi Li-Lang Lang 'Rivalry'; Cover Girl Anna Netrebko; a Classical Celebrity Encounter (Playbill Arts)
What the stars are up to onstage and off.
Official pops students' bubbles - Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Official pops students' bubbles Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, GA - Apr 20, 2006 ... And in yet another school, elementary teachers were playing Mozart symphonies and violin concertos 30 minutes before the test since research has shown that ...

More Mozart and more
Wisconsin State Journal - Opera isn't the only way that the 250th anniversary of Mozart (1756-1791) will be marked in the coming week. The University of Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra will perform for the final 2005-06 "Keyboard Conversations" with pianist Jeffrey Siegel on ...
Two Kindred Spirits Celebrate Shostakovich (The New York Sun)
Tomorrow night, the New York Philharmonic will begin a four-concert subscription series of particular interest. What's so interesting? Mstislav Rostropovich will be on the podium, and Maxim Vengerov will be the soloist. They will perform music of Shostakovich: the Violin Concerto No. 1 and the Symphony No. 10. Mr. Rostropovich is the best cellist in history, and no mean conductor. Next year we
Recording of April 2006: Mozart: Violin Concertos 3 5 - Stereophile Magazine

Stereophile Magazine

Recording of April 2006: Mozart: Violin Concertos 3 5 Stereophile Magazine, NY - Apr 16, 2006 Mozart wrote the last three of his five violin concertos in September, October, and December of 1775, respectively; he was just short of his 20th birthday. ...

Spotlight: The Yundi Li-Lang Lang 'Rivalry'; Cover Girl Anna Netrebko; a Classical Celebrity Encounter (Playbill Arts)
What the stars are up to onstage and off.
Gladys' pupils honor mentor - Deseret News

Gladys' pupils honor mentor Deseret News, UT - Mar 23, 2006 ... Multiple keyboard concertos were a rarity by the time Mozart composed these ... many of which were transcriptions of double and triple violin concertos by Vivaldi ...

Getting Fresh With Mozart
Seattle Weekly - Man of the moment. It's Mozart's 250th birthday, and almost as prevalent as concerts of his music are complaints by critics that everyone plays Mozart all the time anyway. How do you keep standard repertory fresh and bring in audiences in such a ...
Seattle Symphony closes in on concertmaster (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
The Seattle Symphony Orchestra's search for a new concertmaster, now approaching the two-year mark, may conclude at the end of the season.

M. Haydn Mozart Schubert
Gramophone - As on her debut disc of Bach, Bart k and Ysa e, the young Latvian violinist Baiba Skride here avoids the obvious by juxtaposing a favourite Mozart concerto with music by Michael Haydn and Schubert. The Haydn concerto, one of three he wrote around

Classical CD Highlights: April (Playbill Arts)
Maurizio Pollini returns to Chopin and an acclaimed young violinist's debut album reaches American shores.
On-fire Fruhbeck draws brilliance from BSO - Boston Herald

On-fire Fruhbeck draws brilliance from BSO Boston Herald, United States - Apr 7, 2006 ... While Mozart s violin concertos do not attain the weight that his late piano concertos do, the Fifth is still a bold work from a composer who knew exactly ...

Questions, questions: Symphony's music director faces many challenges
San Antonio Express News - The San Antonio Symphony recently announced the lineup for its 2006-07 season. Music director Larry Rachleff sat down to talk about what goes into hashing out a season. Question. In general terms, how do you go about planning a concert season? Answer ...
Violinist Mutter delves into Mozart piano pieces (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter has been celebrating this year's 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth in a big way. That doesn't always mean her instrument is front and center, though. Case in point: her latest album, released last month, in which she, husband Andre Previn at the piano and cellist Daniel Muller-Schott delve into Mozart's Piano Trios K. 502, 542 and 548. The three piano pieces still
Recording of April 2006: Mozart: Violin Concertos 3 5 - Stereophile Magazine

Stereophile Magazine

Recording of April 2006: Mozart: Violin Concertos 3 5 Stereophile Magazine, NY - Apr 16, 2006 Mozart wrote the last three of his five violin concertos in September, October, and December of 1775, respectively; he was just short of his 20th birthday. ...

Seattle Symphony closes in on concertmaster
Seattle Post Intelligencer - The search for a new concertmaster of any orchestra is a major undertaking, given the importance of the post. Sometimes the process is straightforward and quick and sometimes it is prolonged. Unfortunately, the Seattle Symphony's hunt falls in the ...