Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same freedom of approach to their music applies when the group goes into the recording studio. Here they have distinguished themselves as much as they have onstage. They have turned out an overwhelming amount of material on the Philips label, including the complete trios of Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schumann, and Dvorak. For their efforts, the Beaux Arts have won numerous recording prizes, including the Deutscher Schallplatterpreis, the Grand Prix du Disque, and Gramophone's Record of the Year. The latter was awarded in 1980 for their monumental 14-album set of the complete 43 Haydn piano trios...
...found the man who killed Mozart." Ian McKellen whispered. He stared at a small man sitting near him in a New York City Italian restaurant. The man had a hard, beaked face. He wore a dark silk suit and deep gray shirt, and he looked altogether like a crow who had just come back from a health farm. He hunched over his food and held his hands over his plate in an inverted V, letting his fork dangle from his fingers like the clapper inside a bell...
...indeed," McKellen remarks, and his Salieri is a seamless reconciliation of paradox. It is a portrait in depth of a shallow man, a forgotten 18th century court composer so bedeviled by jealousy, the shock of his own mediocrity and the daunting genius of his principal rival that he encouraged Mozart's ruination and hastened his death. Full of wit and passion and measured extravagance, the performance has become perhaps the most warmly admired of the Broadway season...
Neeme Jarvi, conductor of the Estonian State Symphony Orchestra until his emigration to the United States last year, has exuberance and knowhow with German, Estonian and Russian music. One looks forward to hearing how he fares with the Mozart or Haydn symphonies after this program of Brahms' Academic Festival Overture, Eduard Tubin's Tenth Symphony and Dmitri Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony...
Amadeus. Was Mozart poisoned by a rival? Britain's Peter Shaffer draws a cunning eternal triangle with God at the apex, music in the air and Byzantine intrigue everywhere. There are sumptuous performances by Ian McKellen, Tim Curry, Jane Seymour and Nicholas Kepros...