Mozart, Piano Concerto No.23 in A major, K. 488 (Mozartwoche 1998)
The Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg was originally founded in 1841 as the “Dom-Musik-Verein und Mozarteum.” Since 1958 it has been Salzburg’s municipal and state orchestra, and concertizes regularly at both the Salzburg Festival and the Mozartwoche. The principal conductor of the orchestra as well as the conductor of this recording is the Dutch maestro Hubert Soudant. He led the Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique de France in Paris from 1981 to 1983 and the Utrecht Symphony Orchestra in Holland from 1983 to 1986. The pianist Till Fellner was born in Vienna and studied with Alfred Brendel and Oleg Maisenberg, among others.
LSO: Haitink conducts Mozart & Bruckner
The London Symphony Orchestra celebrates a milestone birthday of one of the greats of the conducting world, Bernard Haitink. Bernard Haitink is revered alike by the musicians of the orchestras he conducts and the music-lovers in the audience. A week after his 90th birthday, the London Symphony Orchestra – with which he has a particularly special partnership – celebrates this milestone with the conductor himself. Soloist Till Fellner – who describes Haitink as ‘a very noble man and musician’ – plays Mozart, before Haitink turns to Bruckner, a composer whose majestic symphonies have been at the centre of his career over the decades. PROGRAM Mozart: Piano Concerto No 22; Bruckner: Symphony No 4