Mozart

Further evidence that Stock was an exceptionally able conductor [JW]

RCA LPs restored, showing Elman schmoozing his way through Mozart and encore trinkets [JW]

A wonderful completion of APR’s series exploring Backhaus’ exciting early recording career [RCh]

A rewarding disc which brings together early and late Mozart [GPu]

Stylish renditions that open the windows on these heart-warming scores [SG]

Ten very well-filled discs documenting six glorious decades at the Paris Opera [RMo]

Immaculate performances of delightful works [SB]

Bavouzet’s prolific ornamentation mars the poignancy of K491’s slow movement; but the edginess created in K503’s finale is revelatory [MG]

An auspicious start to a period-instrument series of Mozart symphonies [DF]

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

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

Karajan in Lucerne in largely unreleased performances [JW]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exemplary singularity of vision and artful musicianship [SG]