Mozart, W.A.: Litaniae De Venerabili Altaris Sacramento, K. 243 / Concert Arias / Overtures

Featuring

Günter Wand
Margaret Marshall
Cornelia Wulkopf
Adolf Dallapozza
Karl Ridderbusch
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Günter Wand, the conductor on this album, believed that Mozart's compositional process was almost always completed in his head before he wrote it down, unlike Beethoven's visible struggle in sketchbooks.

Performer Biography

Günter Wand, the conductor, was instrumental in bringing 'degenerate music' banned by the Nazis back to Germany after World War II, and championed many world and national premieres.

Performer Biography

Günter Wand, the conductor, began his career exclusively as an opera conductor from 1932 to 1945, and his many years of operatic activity were largely undocumented by recordings.

Composer Biography

Mozart, despite creating hundreds of masterpieces, died in poverty at age 35 and was buried in a pauper's grave, the exact location of which is unknown.

Composition History

Mozart's Litany of the Venerable Sacrament, K243, composed when he was 20, was the last litany he ever wrote, and he later reused a theme from its second movement in his Requiem.

Composition History

The concert aria "Bella mia fiamma, addio - Resta, o cara" K528 was composed by Mozart for his friend, soprano Josefa Dusek, after she locked him in a room and refused to let him out until it was finished.

Performer Biography

Margaret Marshall, a soprano featured on this album, won first prize at the International Music Competition in Munich in 1974 and is particularly famous as a Mozart and Strauss interpreter.