BBC Radio 3 listeners vote for their Mozart Top Ten
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
On Radio 3’s "Breakfast" his morning Rob Cowan revealed the Nation’s Favourite Mozart works. They were submitted by listeners to the station and in alphabetical order they were:
Ave verum corpus, K618
Clarinet Quintet, K581
Clarinet Concerto, K622
Così fan tutte, K588 – “Soave sia il vento”
Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491
Requiem Mass, K626
Serenade in B flat for 13 wind instruments, “Gran Partita”, K361
Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra in E flat, K364
String Quintet No 3 in G minor, K516
Vesperae solennes de confessore, K339 – Laudate Dominum
Listeners can now vote to reveal the Nation’s favourite piece of Mozart by voting on the Radio 3 website.
To help you with your deliberations, Gramophone recommends the following recordings:
Ave verum corpus, K618
Les Arts Florissants / William Christie
(Erato) Buy from Amazon
Clarinet Quintet, K581
Karl Leister; Berlin Soloists
(Warner Apex) Buy from Amazon
Clarinet Concerto, K622
Thea King; ECO / Jeffrey Tate
(Hyperion) Buy from Amazon
Così fan tutte, K588 – “Soave sia il vento”
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf; Christa Ludwig; Walter Berry; Philharmonia / Karl Böhm (EMI) Buy from Amazon
Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491
Cleveland Orchestra / Mitsuko Uchida
(Decca) Buy from Amazon
Requiem Mass, K626
Les Arts Florissants / William Christie
(Erato) Buy from Amazon
Serenade in B flat for 13 wind instruments, “Gran Partita”, K361
London Winds / Michael Collins
(Onyx) Buy from Amazon
Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra in E flat, K364
Giuliano Carmignola; Danushka Waskiewicz; Orchestra Mozart / Claudio Abbado
(Archiv) Buy from Amazon
String Quintet No 3 in G minor, K516
Arthur Grumiaux; Arpad Gérecz; Georges Janzer; Max Lesueur; Eva Czako
(Philips) Buy from Amazon
Vesperae solennes de confessore, K339 – Laudate Dominum
Carolyn Sampson; The King’s Consort / Robert King
(Hyperion) Buy from Amazon