The final programme takes us to the spring of 1788: he was 32 and had three more years to live.
Adagio (Divertimento in B flat, K 287: 1777) (mono)
JOSEPH szigeti (violin) With AN ENSEMBLE
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Dalla sua pace (Don Giovanni : aria composed for a performance in Vienna half a year after the 1787 premiere) STUART BURROWS (tenor)
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPER1 HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN conducted by COLIN DAVIS (gramophone record)
Violin S-nata in A major (k 526: August 1787) (mono) NORBERT BRAININ (violin)
LAMAR CROWSON (piano)
Concert aria: Bella mia fiamma-Resta, o cara (Prague, November 1787: for Josepha Dusek , 11 years after he had first written for her on her visit to Salzburg)
LEONTYNE PRICE (soprano)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by PETER HERMAN ADLER
(gramophone record)
Adagio in B minor (K 540: March 1788) (mono) LILI KRAUS (piano)
(gramophone record)
Series devised by LEO black