Album

The #1 Mozart Album may be just that—if not a definitive Mozart experience, it at least makes a good place to begin to experience the infinite grace of this Austrian master. Two generous discs offer a selection of Mozart favorites, individual movements rather than full pieces, but all nicely enough rendered by famous artists from the Decca stable—Neville Marriner, András Schiff, and Kiri Te Kanawa, to name a few. Decca is to be commended for not neglecting Mozart's vocal works; disc two, despite the inclusion of a movement of the Symphony No. 41 seemingly left over from the first disc, is nearly entirely devoted to vocal music, with substantial groups of arias from The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and The Magic Flute. The set closes, appropriately enough, with three excerpts from the Requiem (K. 626). One might have wished for a few paragraphs of liner notes, and full-blown rage toward the package designers is justified—there's no way you'll get the second disc out without breaking the whole case. A few tracks suffer from the syndrome whereby the sonic flaws of mediocre 1970s engineering are magnified by digital remastering. On the whole, though, if this release gets Mozart into the convenience stores, it'll bring some of those convenience-store customers back to the classical record shops.

© James Manheim, All Music Guide

CD 1 of 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Serenade in G, K.525 ('Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'; 'A Little Night Music') Work Sir Neville Marriner Conductor, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Orchestra
1	1.Allegro	5:45			$0.99
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Piano Sonata No.16 in C, K.545 ('Sonata semplice') Work Mitsuko Uchida Piano
2	1.Allegro	4:35			$0.99
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Piano Sonata No.11 in A, K.331 ('Alla turca') Work Christoph Eschenbach Piano
3	3.Rondo alla turca	3:33			$0.99
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Symphony No.35 in D, K.385 ('Haffner') Work Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Orchestra, James Levine Conductor
4	4.Finale: Presto	3:39			$0.99
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Violin Concerto No.3 in G, K.216 Work Gidon Kremer Violin, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt Conductor
5	3.Rondo: Allegro	6:36			$0.99
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Clarinet Quintet in A ('Stadler'), K.581 Work Emerson String Quartet String Quartet, David Shifrin Clarinet
6	4.Allegretto con variazioni	9:03			$1.49
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Symphony No.40 in G-, K.550 Work Sir Neville Marriner Conductor, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Orchestra
7	1.Molto allegro	7:43			$1.49
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Horn Concerto No.4 in Eb, K.495 Work Anthony Halstead Horn, Academy of Ancient Music Orchestra, Christopher Hogwood Conductor
8	3.Rondo: Allegro vivace	3:35			$0.99
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Piano Concerto No.21 in C, K.467 ('Elvira Madigan') Work Géza Anda Piano, Salzburg Mozarteum Camerata Academica Orchestra
9	2.Andante ('Theme from Elvira Madigan')	7:12			$1.49
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Piano Concerto No.10 in Eb, for 2 pianos, K.365 Work English Chamber Orchestra Orchestra, Andras Schiff Piano, Daniel Barenboim Piano, Georg Solti Conductor
10	3.Rondo: Allegro	6:38			$0.99
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Divertimento in F for Strings and Horns, K.522 ('A Musical Joke') Work Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Orchestra
11	4.Presto	4:08			$0.99
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Piano Concerto No.27 in Bb, K.595 Work Rudolf Serkin Piano, London Symphony Orchestra Orchestra, Claudio Abbado Conductor
12	3.Allegro	9:33			$1.49
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Serenade for Winds in Bb, K.361 ('Gran Partita') Work Winds of the London Symphony Orchestra Ensemble, Jack Brymer Clarinet
13	7.Finale: Molto allegro	3:28			$0.99
CD 2 of 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Symphony No.41 in C, K.551 ('Jupiter') Work Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm Conductor
1	1.Allegro vivace	7:38			$1.49
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Exsultate, jubilate, for soprano and orchestra, K.165 (motet) Work SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra Orchestra, Margaret Marshall Soprano, Sir Neville Marriner Conductor
2	4.Alleluia	2:26			$0.99
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K.492 (opera buffa)...Act 1 Work 7:44 Bryn Terfel Tenor, Sir Neville Marriner Conductor, English Baroque Soloists Chamber Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner Conductor
3	1.Overture	4:09			$0.99
4	21.Aria: Non più andrai, farfallone amoroso	3:35			$0.99
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K.492 (opera buffa)...Act 2 Work Agnes Baltsa Mezzo-Soprano, Sir Neville Marriner Conductor, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Orchestra
5	4.Canzano: Voi che sapete che cosa è amor	2:59			$0.99
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K.492 (opera buffa)...Act 3 Work Barbara Hendricks Soprano, Sir Neville Marriner Conductor, Lucia Popp Soprano, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Orchestra
6	13.Duetto: Che soave zeffiretto (Sull'aria)	2:54			$0.99
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K.492 (opera buffa)...Act 2 Work Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner Conductor, Kiri Te Kanawa Soprano, James Levine Conductor
7	1.Cavatina: Porgi, amor, qualche ristoro al mio duolo	4:18			$0.99
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K.492 (opera buffa)...Act 4 Work Alison Hagley Soprano, Sir Neville Marriner Conductor, English Baroque Soloists Chamber Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner Conductor
8	10.Aria: Deh vieni, non tardar, o gioia bella	3:06			$0.99
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Don Giovanni, K.527 (opera buffa)...Act 1 Work Marie McLaughlin Soprano, Sir Neville Marriner Conductor, Thomas Allen Baritone, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Orchestra
9	16.Duet: Là ci darem la mano	3:14			$0.99
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Don Giovanni, K.527 (opera buffa)...Act 2 Work Francisco Araiza Tenor, Sir Neville Marriner Conductor, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Orchestra
10	18.Aria: Il mio tesoro	4:04			$0.99
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Così fan tutte, K.588 (opera buffa)...Scene 6 Work Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Orchestra, Kiri Te Kanawa Soprano, Ann Murray Mezzo-Soprano, James Levine Conductor, Ferruccio Furlanetto Bass
11	10.Trio: Soave sia il vento	3:22			$0.99
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K.620 (Singspiel)...Act 1 Work 9:41 Sir Neville Marriner Conductor, Olaf Bär Baritone, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Orchestra
12	Overture	6:54			$0.99
13	2a.Papageno's Aria: Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja	2:47			$0.99
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K.620 (Singspiel)...Act 2 Work 14:25 Cheryl Studer Soprano, Eva Lind Soprano, Sir Neville Marriner Conductor, Olaf Bär Baritone, Kiri Te Kanawa Soprano, Samuel Ramey Bass, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Orchestra
14	6a.Queen of the Night's Aria: Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen	3:05			$0.99
15	7a.Sarastro's Aria: In diesen heil'gen Hallen	4:08			$0.99
16	9a.Pamina's Aria: Ach, ich fühl's, es ist verschwunden	4:44			$0.99
17	13h.Finale: Papageno, Papagena: Pa pa pa	2:28			$0.99
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Requiem Mass in D-, K.626 (completed by Süssmayr) Work 8:48 Monteverdi Choir Chorus/Choir, Hans Peter Blochwitz Tenor, Willard White Bass, Anne Sofie von Otter Mezzo-Soprano, Barbara Bonney Soprano, English Baroque Soloists Chamber Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner Conductor
18	1.Introitus: Requiem aeternam (chorus, soprano)	4:29			$0.99
19	2.Kyrie (chorus)	2:34			$0.99
20	3a.Sequence: Dies irae (chorus)	1:45			$0.49