Mozart: his life & music

Prologue: Mozart in his time

A miracle in Salzburg

The prodigy phenomenon

The grand tour

The music of the child

The eternal child

The keyboard music

Mozart marooned

Symphonies and concertos

Marriage, money, and paternity

Mozart in the theater

A friend in need

Mozart and chamber music

The road to the requiem

The choral music

Mozart the immortal

The eighteenth-century background

Personalities.

CD 1. Minuet in G, K.1 / Jeremy Siepmann, harpsichord

Symphony No. 1 in E flat, K.16, Movement 1: Molto allegro / Northern Chamber Orchestra; Nicholas Ward

Piano Concerto No. 3 in D, K.40, Finale: Presto / Jenõ Jandó, piano; Concentus Hungaricus; Ildikó Hegyi

Ascanio in Alba, K.111, Act I, Scene1: Aria "L'ombre de'rami tuoi" / Lorna Windsor, Venere; Paris Sorbonne University Choir; Concerto Armonico; Jacques Grimbert

Piano Concerto No. 5 in D, K.175, Finale: Allegro / Jenõ Jandó, piano; Concentus Hungaricus; Mátyás Antal

Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K.183, Movement 1: Allegro con brio / Capella Istropolitana; Barry Wordsworth

Symphony No. 29 in A, K.201, Finale; Allegrocon spirito / Capella Istropolitana; Barry Wordsworth

Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat, K.271 "Jeunehomme", Movement 2: Andantino / Jenõ Jandó, piano; Concentus Hungaricus; András Ligeti

Piano Sonata in C, K.309, Movement 2: Andante, un poco adagio / Jenõ Jandó, piano

Concerto in C for flute and harp, K.299, Finale: Allegro / Jiri Válek, flute; Hana Müllerová, harp; Capella Istropolitana; Richard Edlinger

Piano Sonata in A minor, K.310, Movement 2: Andante cantabile con espressione / Jenõ Jandó, piano

Mass in C minor, K.427 "Great", Kyrie / Viktoria Loukianetz, soprano; Hungarian Radio and Television Chorus; Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia; Michael Halász.

CD 2. The Abduction from the Seraglio, K.384, Overture / Capella Istropolitana; Barry Wordsworth

Serenede in B flat for 13 Wind Instruments, K.361, Romanze: Adagio / German Wind Soloists

Horn Concerto No. 1 in D, K.412, Rondo: Allegro / Michael Thompson, horn & director; Bournemouth Sinfonietta

String Quartet in C, K.465 "Dissonance", Movement 1: Adagio-Allegro / Éder Quartet

Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466, Finale: Allegro assai / Jenõ Jandó, piano; Concentus Hungaricus; András Ligeti

The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492, Act III, No. 19: Sestetto "Riconosci in Questo amplesso" / Gabriele Sima, Marcellina; Renato Girolami, Figaro; Janusz Monarcha, Bartolo; Alexander Klinger, Don Curzio; Bo Skovhus, Count; Judith Halász, Susanna; Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia; Michael Halász

Don Giovanni, K.527, Overture / Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia; Michael Halász

Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550, Movement3: Menueto-Trio / Capella Istropolitana; Barry Wordsworth

Così fan tutte, K.588, Act I, Scene 2: Terzettino "Soave sia il vento" / Joanna Borowska, Fiordiligi; Rohangiz Yachmi, Dorabella; Peter Mikulas, Don Alfonso; Capella Istropolitana; Johannes Wildner

The Magic Flute, K.620, Act II, No.14: Aria "Der Hölle Rache" / Hellen Kwon, Queen of the Night; Failoni Orchestra; Michael Halász

Clarinet Conceto in A, K.622, Movement 2: Adagio / Ernst Ottensamer, clarinet; Vienna Mozart Academy; Johannes Wildner

Requiem in D minor, K.626, Kyrie / Slovak Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra; Zdenĕk Košler

Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K.503, Finale: Allegretto / Jenõ Jandó, piano; Concentus Hungaricus; Mátyás Antal.