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After the concert in New York, the New Orchestra will spend a month at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria this summer, said Epstein. He called Salzburg "the musical Capital of Europe in the summer," and said that the Mozarten is the most prestigious music school in Europe...
Mozart: Mitridate, Re di Ponto (Sopranos Arleen Augér, Ileana Cotrubas and Edith Gruberova, Mezzo Agnes Baltsa, Tenor Werner Hollweg, Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg, Leopold Hager, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon; 4 LPs); La Clemenza di Tito (Mezzos Janet Baker and Yvonne Minton, Tenor Stuart Burrows, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis, conductor; Philips; 3 LPs). Mozart composed Mitridate when he was only 14; La Clemenza came just before he died at 35. Both works are all but forgotten. They are opera seria, the early style of Italian opera that can present obstacles for the modern...
Songs by Hugo Wolf (Seraphim; $2.98). A single LP made from off-the-air tapes of one of Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's finest and most famous hours as a lieder singer- her recital in the Salzburg Mozarteum on Aug. 12, 1953. Words and melody blend the way they do partly because of her eminent piano accompanist, Wilhelm Furtwangler, who on this record plays the way he usually conducted: rounding phrases majestically, seeing to it that voice and instrument are blended perfectly...
Died. Bernhard Paumgartner, 83, Austrian conductor-musicologist and one of the world's foremost authorities on Mozart; in Salzburg. Paumgartner had served only the first five of his 47 years as head of Salzburg's famed Mozarteum (conservatory) when in 1922 he joined Richard Strauss, Director Max Reinhardt and Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal in organizing the Salzburg Festival. Before he began his eleven years as the festival's president in 1960, Paumgartner proved eminently resourceful. Once, while recording Don Giovanni, he went so far as to slap a soprano in order to evoke a properly furious scream...
...rich and textured sound from the orchestra. A pianist. Abbado had none of the usual percussive tastes of the pianistic conductor: instead, he even trusted the beaters and blowers in the orchestra to come in without cues while he painted tones in the violin section. Abbado studied at the Mozarteum and the Vienna Academy of Music, and in 1958 he won the Koussevitzky Prize for conductors at Tanglewood...