Mozart Fest

[Mr Pee]

The Philips edition ran to 180 CDs. They weren't all filled to an overflowing 80 minutes, but even if they had been, we could have got through the whole lot in 10 days flat. Most ran to an hour or less, so we could have had a 9 days' wonder. [And nobody mentioned the amazing stucco-work and beautiful fake marble in Mozart's apartment in the Figaro-Haus!]

But then we would have missed out on the fascinating interviews with performers and conductors that have been such a great feature of this wonderful enterprise.

Thank goodness it's ending today!!!

Oh dear. It's ended. I've really enjoyed it. Thankyou Radio3!!

But never mind- for anybody suffering from Mozart Fest withdrawal symptoms, this Sunday at 5pm, Discovering Music:- (from the Radio Times):-

Tom Service joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andrew Manze to explore Mozart's Symphony no 36 in C, K425

Yay!! More Mozart!!

[poshsussex]

Mozart Fest 2011

Yes, on the whole I enjoyed listening to the performances and interviews on the Mozart marathon, although I do have recordings of the 200 Anniversary broadcasts in 1991, which are still good listening, many of them were live.
However I was hoping some mention might have been made about Wolfgangs 2 sons, 1 of whom was a moderate musician in Prague, I think. what happened to him.

Also I feel a great affinity for Wolfgangs protege ,Franz Xavier Sussmayer, who completed the famous Requiem very well. I believe he died in 1803, having many of his own woeks performed in Vienna, and becoming quite famous aswell.
so, all in all an enjoyable 12 days, but it will be good to return to some normality with all the other great musicians to be heard. and thank you Rob and Sara for your contributions on Morning on 3 and Play Mozart for me.

[french frank]

Also I feel a great affinity for Wolfgangs protege ,Franz Xavier Sussmayer, who completed the famous Requiem very well. I believe he died in 1803, having many of his own woeks performed in Vienna, and becoming quite famous aswell.

That might get a bit of a reaction from some here! I agree with you, though. People can say what they like about 'Sussmayr's completion': to me Sussmayr is part of the atmosphere of nebulous myth with which this work is completely imbued.

[Bryn]

Yes, on the whole I enjoyed listening to the performances and interviews on the Mozart marathon, although I do have recordings of the 200 Anniversary broadcasts in 1991, which are still good listening, many of them were live.
However I was hoping some mention might have been made about Wolfgangs 2 sons, 1 of whom was a moderate musician in Prague, I think. what happened to him.

Also I feel a great affinity for Wolfgangs protege ,Franz Xavier Sussmayer, who completed the famous Requiem very well. I believe he died in 1803, having many of his own woeks performed in Vienna, and becoming quite famous aswell.
so, all in all an enjoyable 12 days, but it will be good to return to some normality with all the other great musicians to be heard. and thank you Rob and Sara for your contributions on Morning on 3 and Play Mozart for me.

Ah, so not Franz Xaver Süssmayr, who made a bit of a hash of it, even though he had access to and borrowed from the initial work on knocking Mozart's meagre sketches into shape by Eybler, Freystädtler et al. Thank goodness we have HCRL's edition which uses what he found to be the best of each of the contemporary contributions while correcting the most glaring compositional blunders. Both HCRL and Robert Levin have considerably surpassed what Süssmayr cobbled together, to my ears.

[Oh, and did not Mozart consider Süssmayr to be one of his weaker pupils, compositionally?]

[Flosshilde]

You thought it was all over? Not quite -

10:00–12:00 Classical Collection
Thursday - James Jolly
James Jolly presents works inspired by Mozart, from Haydn, Chopin, Beethoven and Hummel.

[Suffolkcoastal]

As soon as the Mozart fest has finished I see Breakfast reverts straight back to its good old cliched self, with a Hungarian Dance, Debussy & Ravel, a few bits of Bach and the Barber of Seville overture, and there I was just hoping that R3 might turn over a new leaf in 2011 ..... some hope!

[Mr Pee]

As soon as the Mozart fest has finished I see Breakfast reverts straight back to its good old cliched self, with a Hungarian Dance, Debussy & Ravel, a few bits of Bach and the Barber of Seville overture, and there I was just hoping that R3 might turn over a new leaf in 2011 ..... some hope!

Oh well, here we go again. Now that people can't complain about wall to wall Mozart, we're back to the usual predictable whinges about Radio3 in general. It does get rather tedious, this continuous complaining. And I have to say:- Debussy, Ravel, Bach, Rossini- sounds like a pretty good mixture to me.

There's clearly no pleasing some listeners. Beats me why you keep tuning in if it annoys you that much.

[french frank]

It does get rather tedious, this continuous complaining.

Mainly, I imagine, for those who don't have much worth complaining about!

Perhaps the whingers feel it's a bit unfair, and they should give you something to complain about to see whether you do or whether you suffer in silence

[Pianorak]

As soon as the Mozart fest has finished I see Breakfast reverts straight back to its good old cliched self, with a Hungarian Dance, Debussy & Ravel, a few bits of Bach and the Barber of Seville overture, and there I was just hoping that R3 might turn over a new leaf in 2011 ..... some hope!

I was hoping that the first piece on TTN in the early hours was going to be something by Stockhausen or Boulez to shock us back into life, instead it was a mild opera of Rossini!

"shock" is the operative word. Stockhausen and Boulez on TtN!! Whatever next?? (Sorry, couldn't resist).

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh well, here we go again. Now that people can't complain about wall to wall Mozart, we're back to the usual predictable whinges about Radio3 in general. It does get rather tedious, this continuous complaining. And I have to say:- Debussy, Ravel, Bach, Rossini- sounds like a pretty good mixture to me.

There's clearly no pleasing some listeners. Beats me why you keep tuning in if it annoys you that much.

To be positive I really enjoyed Classical Collection this morning, with its 'inspired by Mozart' theme... The three piano arrangements played by Cyprien Katsaris (esp the Lacrimosa arr. Thalberg) and then a delightful Hummel rarity, were a perfect accompaniment to a 40 minute journey.

10.58
Today's Group of 3 is a collection of Mozart paraphrases

Gelinek
'Air des mysteres d'Isis'

Thalberg
'Lacrimosa'

Franz Liszt
'Ave verum corpus'
Cyprien Katsaris (piano)
Sony SK 52 551

11.09
Hummel
Rondo Brillant on a Russian Folk Theme, Op.98
Howard Shelley (piano and conductor)
London Mozart Players
Chandos CHAN 10216

Fortunately I arrived in time to miss the subsequent Rossini aria - much as last night the radio went off when "Matilda de Shabran" or whatever it's called was announced at one o'clock after the end of the MozartFest. Despite the last 12 days, a Mozart piano concerto would have been infinitely preferable in both instances....

[Pianorak]

To be positive I really enjoyed Classical Collection this morning

So did I - thanks for posting the CD references re the Liszt and Hummel!

[subcontrabass]

[COLOR="blue"]To be positive I really enjoyed Classical Collection this morning, with its 'inspired by Mozart' theme...

And now we have timings published again it makes it possible to choose what to listen to.

[Dave2002]

I missed virtually all of the Mozart thing - I was away. Were there any particular highlights which would be worth visiting via the iPlayer in the time left?

[Bryn]

One item I have been waiting to appear on the iPlayer was "Herr Mozart Presents ... " from last Sunday evening. With the kind help of Naomi Anderson of the Radio 3 Breakfast team, who responded to my email to the team by chasing the iPlayer team, it has now at last been sorted with 3 days to go of its supposed 7 days availability:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x1s9r

[french frank]

One item I have been waiting to appear on the iPlayer was "Herr Mozart Presents ... " from last Sunday evening. With the kind help of Naomi Anderson of the Radio 3 Breakfast team, who responded to my email to the team by chasing the iPlayer team, it has now at last been sorted with 3 days to go of its supposed 7 days availability:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x1s9r

Oh, well done, Bryn! I can now flag it up in Now iPlaying ...