Sunday, Jon Nakamatsu played Mozart in his shirt sleeves, a smart fashion strategy. Word had it that temperatures inside Le Petit Trianon, the concert hall in downtown San Jose, had spiked somewhere ...
Mozart never got to see a movie, but if he lived today, he'd be crazy about them. He's the main event in the Swedish film Elvira Madigan, because his Piano Concerto No. 21 has made the film famous — ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is considered by many to be the greatest composer ever. And his 27 piano concertos may be his finest work. But Mozart had a formula for the 27 and he used it over and over ...
Jacques Loussier clangs musical genera together like an orchestral cymbalist reaching crescendo. After having weaved his way through Bach, Chopin, Handel and Satie, maestro Loussier turns his ...
The Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Constantine, presented music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Hector ...
Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major is like the kid with talent who struggles to stand out among older, better-known siblings. Numbers 20, 21, 23, 24 and 25, composed during Mozart’s busy prime ...
Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 is 240 years old, and much about its creation remains a mystery, but pianist Garrick Ohlsson has no doubt that the 21-year-old composer was inspired by the same thing ...
David Threasher investigates the recorded history of one of the least-known of Mozart’s mature piano concertos, renowned for gaps left in the solo part as the composer worked at speed, and recommends ...
Who says Mozart has to be stuffy? Canadian conductor Bernard Labadie certainly doesn’t think so. In an all-Mozart program Thursday at the Meyerson Symphony Center, Labadie led the Dallas Symphony ...