Despite its complexity, the particular appeal of Mozart’s Concerto in D-minor, K. 466, is easy to understand: It is only one of two written in a minor key, and the most overtly dark, dramatic and …
Mozart’s Piano Sonata #11 in A major, K. 331 was likely composed in Vienna or Salzburg by around 1783, although Paris and dates as far back as 1778 have also been suggested. Simone Dinnerstein was …
Mozart composed this music between 1779 and 1780. Scored for a very small group of players, this work was probably written to commemorate the graduation of a close friend of Mozart’s, Sigmund Robinig, from his …
Lucia Popp was a singer at the Vienna State Opera. I heard her live as a boy of 14, when my family spent a year in Vienna. I was smitten with Lucia Popp… She’s gone …
Praised for her “deeply moving” performances (Hamburger Abendblatt), Alina Pogostkina, winner of the 2005 Sibelius Competition in Helsinki, performs at many of the world’s most renowned festivals and concert venues, and collaborates with conductors such …