Mozart

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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (Opus Arte)

The singing doesn’t quite match the wonderful staging [DJB]

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Mozart: The Piano Quartets (Chandos)

Fine playing, but the interpretations are a matter of personal taste [PBW]

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Karajan – The Early Lucerne Years (Audite)

Karajan in Lucerne in largely unreleased performances [JW]

Mozart and his Europe (Genuin)

A beautiful tone and natural, unmannered playing and flexibility of phrasing [RCh]

Mozart: Piano Concerti No. 15-17 (Alpha Classics)

Sparkling and exuberant playing makes the most of these three Viennese concerti [RCh]

Wendling Quartet: DG and Electrola Recordings (Biddulph)

An important cache of early chamber music recordings heard in debatable transfers [JW]

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Sarah Willis (Horn) Mozart y Mambo (Alpha Classics)

A riotously enjoyable disc, the third in the amazing Sarah Willis’s series featuring Mozart Cuban-style [GPJ]

Mozart: Symphonies No. 34-36 (Hänssler Classic)

Played with sincerity, but the competition is fierce [MC]

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Mozart: Piano Concertos (SWR Classic)

Michelangeli’s Mozart at its most ebullient, masculine and human [JW]

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Haydn & Mozart: Symphonies (Pristine Classical)

Horenstein’s Haydn and Mozart pack quite a punch [MG]

Mozart: Concertos; Voříšek: Symphony (Supraphon)

(Déjà Review) More great music-making from the Ančerl Gold Series [DS]

Mozart: Symphonies 39-41 (BR Klassik)

These performances do not quite achieve the vitality and focus of my benchmarks [MC]

Mozart: Arias for Aloysia Weber (Glossa)

An attractive collection no lover of Mozart will regret acquiring [GF]

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Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol. 10 (Academy of Ancient Music)

Sparkling performances of early Mozart works you’ve never heard like this before [MG]

Mozart: Sonatas for Piano and Violin (Deutsche Grammophon)

Exemplary singularity of vision and artful musicianship [SG]

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Otto Klemperer (conductor): The Remastered Edition (Warner Classics)

Klemperer consolidated; his full Warner legacy in best-yet transfers [JW]

Luca Brugnoli (treble) Rise Up (Convivium Records)

A somewhat flawed recital from a remarkable young singer with real potential [MSt]

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Mozart’s Mannheim (Deutsche Grammophon)

Mozart in historical context: Repertoire associated with an orchestra he revered [DF]

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Mozart: Piano and Violin Sonatas (Decca)

(Déjà Review) One of the most rewarding and enjoyable Mozart discs in recent years [DS]

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Mozart: Concertos (Alpha Classics)

Youthful but remarkably distinguished Mozart concerto performances [NH]

Mozart: Symphonies 34-36 (Hänssler Classic)

Symphonies 34 and 35 get entertainingly fresh, well balanced, focussed and detailed accounts but Symphony 36 is less secure [MG]

Mozart: …che cosa è amor… (Warner Classics)

(Déjà Review) I have derived much pleasure from this disc and I expect many opera lovers will like it too [GF]

Karl Böhm (conductor): The SWR Recordings (SWR Classic)

A rewarding collection [GT]

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Mozart: Wind Concertos (Avie)

(Déjà Review) Authenticists might not agree with everything, but surely even they would get sucked in to the spirit of it all [CC]