On this all-Mozart edition of Reflections from the Keyboard, host David Dubal shares some of Amadeus' compositions played by the great piano Mozartians. Clara Haskill kicks off the program with...
On this edition of Reflections, David Dubal highlights a combination of Mozart’s solo piano music and concertos. Listen for the Sonata for two pianos, the Allegretto from his radiant Piano Conc...
On this episode of Reflections from the Keyboard, David Dubal highlights Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s solo piano works, some of which were composed when he was just 5-years-old. We hear moments fr...
Throughout his life Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart delighted in transforming music from popular children’s songs to the works of Bach into his own variations and arrangements. This year’s Mostly Mo...
Mozart wrote his final three symphonies in a span of about two months. He may never have heard them performed by a professional orchestra and he certainly would never have heard all three on the ...
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This is the final Saturday of WQXR's Month of Mozart, and this week's cartoon includes Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos, K. 448, which is visualized in this video created with the Music Animation ...
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Looks can be deceiving, as many learn painfully from the charming and dubious Don Giovanni. On this broadcast from the Houston Grand Opera, recorded last winter, Austrian baritone Adrian Eröd pl...
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The New York Philharmonic closes out its November broadcasts with and all-Mozart program, including Piano Concerto No. 22 with guest soloist Emanuel Ax. PROGRAM DETAILS: Mozart: Overture to ...
THE WQXR ARCHIVES CELEBRATES MONTH OF MOZART WITH HIGHLIGHTS FROM LLOYD MOSS'S WQXR SHOW THIS IS MY MUSIC . "IF THE HUMAN RACE WERE TO BECOME EXTINCT TOMORROW . . . THE ONE THING THAT IT CAN BE...
Back in July, I wrote the first of what I said would be an occasional series called Overlooked Operas. Readers seemed to agree that Weber’s Der Freischütz has been undervalued, especially in ...
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This weekend's Saturday at the Opera is Mozart's Don Giovanni, so for this week’s Showdown we’ve chosen the duet "La ci darem la mano" from that opera, which is also today’s featured record...
In this episode of The Vocal Scene from 2002, George Jellinek explores some rarely-heard vocal gems by Mozart. PLAYLIST Mitridate, Re di Ponto: Farnace’s aria “Venga pur, minacci,” sung...
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VIDEO: THE PACIFICA QUARTET & ANTHONY MCGILL PLAY MOZART When a long-established string quartet brings in a fifth collaborator, questions inevitably arise: how will the four players interact w...
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Host Bill McGlaughlin spends a week devoted to Mozart's final years. He explores a stream of masterpieces, including The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, the final symphonies and piano concerto...
Month of Mozart on WQXR continues and this Saturday's cartoon features "Ein Madchen oder Weibchen," an aria from Mozart’s timeless and beloved opera, The Magic Flute. Check out the first part o...
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In this year of anniversaries—Wagner, Verdi, Britten, Richard Tucker—and in this month’s immersion in Mozart here at WQXR, there is another artistic event worth noting and taking pleasure i...
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Despite efforts to present Mozart's music as an all-purpose soothing agent – there to ward off street crime or pacify frazzled urbanites – his music needn't be confused with easy listening...
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Mozart gets the boot from the Archbishop as a Salzburg court musician and moves to Vienna.
At one time, Turkish music was all the rage in Europe and classical composers used Turkish instruments — bass drums, cymbals and triangles — in their music. This week on Classics for Kids, le...
Mozart's humor, his finances, an appearance on the TV show "M.A.S.H." and a Donald Trump-themed production are among this week's quiz questions. See how much you really know. Note: There may be...
A two-page manuscript from an early Mozart serenade is to be sold at auction on Nov. 26 at Swann Auction Galleries in New York. The sheet , which covers a portion of the sixth movement of the ...
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If Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had a Facebook page, here are a few things you might find at the top of his list of "likes." Mozart may have been a genius, but he was also a bit of a strange guy. Ch...
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Mozart seizes an almost non-existent genre, the piano concerto, and elevates it to one of the most revered and popular musical forms.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been in the movies many times, and not only in "Amadeus." His music has played a role in over 900 films, bringing Mozartean drama, serenity and majesty to every imagin...
Travel to a place where the top musicians from around the world gather to celebrate Mozart. The Mozart Festival, hosted by Hannes Eichmann, brings you to Salzburg, Austria, for some of the best p...
After last week's kick-off quiz , we're offering another chance for you to test your knowledge of all things Mozart. Try this week's and see if you're moving up to "genius" level yet.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart said throughout his life that opera was his true calling. Some of his greatest works and most memorable melodies were written for operas like The Marriage of Figaro, Don G...
It stopped just short of promising eyesight to the blind or rain from dry skies. But disciples of the 1993 "Mozart Effect" study made impressive claims: Listening to music, they said, could boost...
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In celebration of Month of Mozart, for this week's showdown we asked you to vote for your favorite of three classic performances of one beautiful Mozart aria. Of these great Mozart tenors, you ov...
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There was a time at WQXR when the suggestion of a month-long Mozart festival would have been fighting words. After the New York Times bought WQXR in 1944, station management became aware that T...
Host Bill McGlaughlin examines two great composers of the 18th century — Haydn and Mozart — who were both masters of string quartets. The two men worked separately until eventually they met a...
The Saturday morning cartoon for this first weekend in Month of Mozart, features Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 16 in C, K. 545, "Sonata facile" (Easy sonata). The Italian cartoon character La Lin...
http://www.wqxr.org/story/saturday-morning-cartoons-la-linea-plays-mozart/
When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sat down at the keyboard at the age of 3, it was clear to his father Leopold that he had a genius on his hands. From the first pieces he composed as a 5-year-old, to ...
WQXR is kicking off Month of Mozart with a marathon of all-Mozart music on Friday, Nov. 1 from 6 am to 11 pm, which got us thinking: Let's make a playlist of some of Mozart's most energizing tune...
Do you remember the first time you heard Mozart? Or maybe his music is permanently tied to a moment in your life? On Friday, Nov. 1, WQXR kicks off Month of Mozart, a celebration of the composer ...
We have been hearing Mozart regularly for years in our concert halls, in TV commercials and at the movies. We play his music for our children, (misguidedly) hoping to make them smarter. But how w...
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The soprano Susanna Phillips brought to the WQXR Café a set of Mozart songs that have their roots in salon music, meant to be sung by mainly amateurs in living rooms and at social events. In kee...
As WQXR devotes November to life and career of Mozart, the Operavore stream will present a wide assortment of the composer's vocal works including his pivotal operas. The festivities kick off w...
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This November is WQXR’s Month of Mozart, a festival devoted to one of the most beloved yet frequently misunderstood composers in the canon. More then 250 years since his birth, Mozart still fa...
No other work thrust Mozart more into mass consciousness than Milos Forman's Oscar-winning film "Amadeus." In anticipation of the film's 30th anniversary, join us for a screening of the film at S...
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Join WQXR on SATURDAY, NOV. 23, at 11:30 AM AND 2:30 PM for two special family presentations of the beloved classic The Magic Flute, performed by the Amore Opera. Designed especially for chi...
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In keeping with a recent tradition of November festivals, WQXR will present "Month of Mozart,” a celebration of the composer who has racked up more recordings than any other (nearly 10,000), cr...
Anyone who has called New York City's 311 hotline and has been put on hold may have noticed the perky music on the line: Mozart’s Flute Concerto Number 1 in G Major. It has been the hold music ...