Scene from: Great Composers: Mozart
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis
The programme was shot on location in Salzburg, Vienna and Prague, and includes filmed extracts with: Cecilia Bartoli performing arias from The Marriage of Figaro, Sir Colin Davis conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in performances of Symphony No.40 and Piano Concerto No.23 with Imogen Cooper; Thomas Allen. Robert Lloyd singing the last scene of Don Giovanni with The Royal Opera, Covent Garden conducted by Bernard Haitink, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performing Symphonies Nos.1, 31, 40 and Violin Concerto No.5 with soloist Eric Wyrick; the Endellion Quartet playing the Dissonance Quartet. Biographical and critical commentators include H.C. Robbins Landon, Neal Zaslaw, Jonathan Miller, Nicholas Till, Charles Rosen, Peter Shaffer, Howard Gardner, Robert Levin, Tim Carter and Oliver von Dohnányi.
Catalogue: 5101154492