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Concerts
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March 1, 2012 Lorin Maazel leads Mozart's Symphony No. 40 and Wagner's 'Ring' whittled down to 70 minutes.
July 13, 2011 The artist explores rarely heard elements of Mozart's genius on what he calls "the old piano."
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January 6, 2011 Celebrate the orchestra's return to its concert hall with music by Beethoven and Mozart.
May 21, 2010 Mozart's dark comedy features music of limitless genius, and a drama that lives up to the score.
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April 15, 2009 Hear the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment play bold 18th-century music in concert.
February 20, 2009 Sometimes neglected, Mozart's final opera is filled with startling innovation and great beauty.
November 28, 2008 Domestic routine hides emotional turmoil in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, from Houston.
October 17, 2008 Mozart's dark comedy features music of limitless genius, and a drama that lives up to the score.
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July 29, 2008 Hear incomparable works by Mozart (his 40th Symphony) and Mahler (The Song of the Earth).
May 9, 2008 Mozart's comic farce 'Cosi fan tutte' can leave romantically inclined listeners a little bit queasy.
November 2, 2007 Mozart's brilliant classic 'Don Giovanni' gets a colorful new production by Houston Grand Opera.
July 13, 2007 Anna Netrebko stars in a brilliant, Salzburg production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.
June 29, 2007 Mozart wrote La finta semplice, a sly tale of lustful deception, when he was 12 years old!
May 4, 2007 The "happy ending" in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte often leaves audiences a little bit queasy.
March 30, 2007 World of Opera offers Mozart's 'The Abduction from the Seraglio' at the Salzburg Festival.
August 2, 2006 In the spirit of mixing and matching music on MP3 players, a set of four short classical pieces.
January 26, 2006 Conductor Roger Norrington joins NPR's Fred Child in Salzburg for Mozart's birthday celebration.
January 23, 2006 NPR's Fred Child hosts Performance Today from Salzburg to celebrate Mozart's 250th birthday.
January 20, 2006 Despite being one of the most successful composers of all time, Mozart could rarely find a job.
December 23, 2005 He hated having to produce for the church in Salzburg, and it showed. But not in these pieces.
November 4, 2005 Performance Today kicks off a weekly series of tributes to the classical composer.
Studio Sessions
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March 23, 2010 Hear the young, award-winning Polish pianist play Chopin and Mozart in the NPR studio.
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December 20, 2007 The Pacifica Quartet finds sunshine in Mozart's so-called "Dissonance" quartet in the WGBH studio.
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July 19, 2007 Anne-Sophie Mutter plays and discusses Mozart's Violin Sonatas with Performance Today's Fred Child.
Interviews & Profiles
January 8, 2012 Mozart, Beethoven and others wrote bold, uncharacteristic pieces during their last days on Earth.
August 10, 2011 One of the world's leading conductors takes on the role of stage director.
July 29, 2010 The violinist reflects on her self-confidence and her controversial, much-discussed album covers.
April 1, 2010 Renee Montagne and Miles Hoffman spin some of classical music's more lewd and laughable moments.
August 13, 2009 Mozart's music, like a hologram, flashes back and forth between the simple and the complicated.
July 28, 2009 Ted Libbey recommends an all-star cast performance of Mozart's last opera, The Magic Flute.
May 14, 2009 The opera star muses on playing the devil and keeping a youthful sound near the end of his career.
May 12, 2009 Late in his career, Mozart explored feelings of emotional agitation and passion in his symphonies.
February 16, 2009 Our imaginary Lincoln iPod might have included sentimental ballads, lively dance tunes and opera.
January 5, 2007 This 20th-anniversary program highlights great performances and moments of poignancy and levity.
November 27, 2006 The pianist and violinist's four-CD set of 16 Mozart sonatas honors the composer's 250th birthday.
May 9, 2006 Too many syrupy performances of Mozart forced the frustrated cellist into a conducting career.
January 27, 2006 Mozart wrote the famed "Jupiter Symphony" just three years before his death in 1791.
January 27, 2006 The city has made an industry of Mozart, even though Mozart couldn't wait to leave it.
January 26, 2006 Conductor Roger Norrington joins NPR's Fred Child in Salzburg for Mozart's birthday celebration.
January 25, 2006 Pianist Mitsuko Uchida and the Hagen Quartet perform Mozart in Salzburg.
January 24, 2006 Nicholas Kenyon recommends the Orchestra of St. Luke's recording of Mozart's Serenade, K. 361.
January 24, 2006 The Mozart celebration in Salzburg continues with pianist Mitsuko Uchida.
January 22, 2006 Mozart's wild ride from child prodigy to accomplished composer was fueled with strong relationships.
January 17, 2006 Nicholas Kenyon recommends the Vienna Philharmonic's recording of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante.
January 13, 2006 Mozart's relationship with his father was one of love and mutual respect, but not subserviance
January 10, 2006 Mozart scholar Nicolas Kenyon discusses a new Mozart recording by pianist Richard Goode.
January 6, 2006 Conductor and author Jane Glover offers a glimpse at the lives of Mozart's mother, sister and wife.
January 3, 2006 Music scholar Nicolas Kenyon discusses Mozart's String Quartet, K. 465, the "Dissonance" Quartet.
December 30, 2005 Mozart came to love the Czech city, where his musical appeal endured throughout his brief life.
December 30, 2005 The song "Little Frederick's Birthday" and the "Prague" Symphony are Mozart highlights.
December 27, 2005 Nicholas Kenyon notes a classic: Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Concentus Musicus of Vienna.
December 23, 2005 He hated having to produce for the church in Salzburg, and it showed. But not in these pieces.
December 20, 2005 The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra plays Mozart's Piano Concertos No. 27 and No. 19.
December 16, 2005 From bowling to musical dice, party games to slapstick opera: a look at Mozart's lighter side.
December 13, 2005 Mozart authority Nicolas Kenyon joins Fred Child to discuss another favorite Mozart recording.
December 9, 2005 Can you tell if a piece is by Mozart or Haydn? Take a quiz, and hear a Rob Kapilow commentary.
December 6, 2005 Music scholar Nicholas Kenyon discusses the only concerto Mozart ever wrote for the clarinet.
November 29, 2005 Nicholas Kenyon discusses his "must-have" recording of Mozart's Symphony No. 40.
November 25, 2005 The music Mozart wrote for Joseph Leutgeb is still some of the finest music ever written for horn.
November 22, 2005 In a new series, Nicholas Kenyon guides us through favorite recordings of Mozart's music.
November 11, 2005 Performance Today continues a weekly series of tributes to the classical composer.
November 4, 2005 Performance Today kicks off a weekly series of tributes to the classical composer.
Discover Songs
November 4, 2010 A new live recording by the great German lyric tenor has caught the ear of one adoring fan.
November 4, 2010 The young indie-classical composer picks Mozart as the ideal, and best dressed, dinner companion.
August 1, 2009 Hear a young soprano whose career is on the rise. Her new CD features lesser-known arias by Mozart.
January 25, 2006 Rilo Kiley singer Jenny Lewis; Gorgeous odds and ends from Hem; Former Byrds singer Roger McGuin...
News
March 30, 2012 Yiddish- and English-speaking mavericks, students too cool for middle school and much more.
December 28, 2011 Can only movie villains love classical music? The new Sherlock Holmes flick turns around a trope.
July 9, 2011 A new production reduces the lavish Mozart opera to seven singers, a piano and a bare stage.
January 27, 2006 Mozart's formula... symmetry spiced by elements of surprise... is attractive to nearly all ears.
January 22, 2006 Mozart's wild ride from child prodigy to accomplished composer was fueled with strong relationships.
January 1, 2006 New Yorker critic Alex Ross notes the big news in the classical music world for 2005, 2006.
May 20, 2005 The Juilliard School is marking 100 years of preparing fine musicians and performers.
Reviews
October 18, 2011 Hear the superb Emerson String Quartet — in their 35th year together — play Mozart.
August 2, 2011 Memorable performances from a fabled summer festival, newly available.
January 16, 2011 Hear the amazing mezzo-soprano's new gender-bending opera album in its entirety before its release.
February 21, 2007 Jazz pianist and composer Uri Caine has a new recording: Uri Caine Ensemble Plays Mozart.
More Stories
January 26, 2007 The Kitchen Sisters take us to Vienna, to Mozart's Hidden Kitchen: "The Tables of New Crowned Hope."
August 11, 2006 A controversial new production of Mozart's Zaide sets the opera in a modern sweatshop.
July 28, 2006 Lorenzo Da Ponte wrote the librettos for Don Giovanni and other Mozart operas.
November 22, 2007 According to vinter Clark Smith, Cabernet should be sipped with "music of darkness."
May 9, 2013 Why are so many operatic moms depicted as murderous women on the verge of a nervous breakdown?
May 3, 2013 Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon from Deceptive Cadence.
February 8, 2013 Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.
July 20, 2012 Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.
June 15, 2012 Commentator Miles Hoffman introduces a few famous dads whose children became master musicians.
April 3, 2012 Hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton debate the polarizing and hard-to-define art of "speak-singing."
March 8, 2012 The excesses of the early 18th century take a decisive hit from a reformer.
March 2, 2012 Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.
February 1, 2012 Opera singers must obey the musical traffic signals, knowing an accelerando from a rallentando.
January 25, 2012 The skinny on what's sung when the singer stands alone.
November 23, 2011 Brooklyn Rider's intrepid violist finds a perfect musical partner for his favorite Japanese food.
November 21, 2011 The celebrated tenor pairs music and wine with three seasonal dishes from his home country.
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September 23, 2011 Mozart's dark comedy features music of limitless genius, and a drama that lives up to the score.
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August 26, 2011 The story of a man so in love that he's willing to burn down Rome.
August 22, 2011 A new film joins the pile of ruminations on another very talented Mozart: Wolfgang's sister.
July 11, 2011 What makes Mozart's last opera so ripe for reinvention?
June 27, 2011 An idle query on Twitter ignites a fun debate.
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June 24, 2011 Finding the method inside of the madness created by an 18-year-old Mozart.
June 3, 2011 Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, on Deceptive Cadence.
May 10, 2011 Getting from Mozart and Salieri to Neil Sedaka in less than six degrees of separation.
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March 18, 2011 Mozart's premier creative partnership with Lorenzo Da Ponte produced a masterpiece for the ages.
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January 28, 2011 Mozart's enigmatic story of a serial womanizer has both comic and dramatic elements.
January 28, 2011 Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon on Deceptive Cadence.
January 21, 2011 Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, on Deceptive Cadence.
October 23, 2009 Mozart's fanciful opera mixes surreal characters with mystical rites and cryptic, Masonic symbols.
October 17, 2008 The German violin diva reveals what she likes to listen to when she's not practicing.
December 29, 2006 From Mozart to contemporary composer Paul Moravec, the best of the year in classical music.
October 5, 2006 Michael Palmer leads the Bellingham Festival Orchestra in a Mozart Overture.
September 14, 2006 Hilary Hahn is the violinist and Natalie Zhu the pianist in Mozart's Sonata in G Major, K. 301.
March 27, 2013 Meta music: Mozart's Orientalist fantasy, tweaked by Turkish pianist and composer Fazil Say.
