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Mozart on the Road

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10.00am London
Mozart Symphony No 1 in E flat (K 16): Academy of St Martin/Neville Marriner
Anthem: God Is Our Refuge (K 20): BBC Singers/Joly
C F Abel Symphony in G, Op 7 No 1: Cantilena / Adrian Shepherd. Records

10.30am Mozart In Salzburg
Peter Paul Nash visits the city which witnessed Mozart's precocious development and ultimate frustration.
Producer Philip Tagney
(Repeated Tuesday at 2.00pm)

11.15am Salzburg
Mozart Regina coeli (K 108) Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Westminster Cathedral Boys' Choir; Academy of Ancient Music and Chorus/ Hogwood Leopold Mozart Hom Concerto in D: Michael Thompson
Philharmonia/Warren-Green Terzetto (Zaide): Soloists; Salzburg Mozarteum Orch/Leopold Hager Duos for violin and viola by Mozart and Michael Haydn, played by Thomas Zehetmair and Tabea Zimmermann.
Records

12.15pm Mozart and the Idea of Germany
Anthony Burton talks to
Nicholas Till about the rising national consciousness in the arts which Mozart encountered in centres such as Mannheim.

12.30pm Holzbauer Coronation Scene
(Gunther von Schwarzburg) Eirean Davies (soprano) Mark Tucker (tenor)
Christopher Booth-Jones
(baritone); BBC Opera Chorus BBC Concert Orchestra conductor Alfred Walter.
'You can't imagine what fire there is in that music.' (Mozart)

1.00 Nicholas Till on the variety of national styles in Mozart's operas.

1.15pm Munich, Leipzig and Frankfurt
Mozart Overture and Ballet
Music (Idomeneo)
English Baroque Soloists/ John Eliot Gardiner
Eine kleine Gigue (K 574)
Paul Badura-Skoda (f piano) Bach Singet dem Herrn Choir of Trinity College.
Cambridge/Richard Marlow Pfano Concerto in D (K 537) (Coronation): ECO/Murray Perahia (piano). Records

2.30pm Mozart and Donna Anna
Carl Schachter on the construction of Donna Anna's first-act aria in Don Giovanni.
Producer Chris Marshall

3.15pm Italy
Mozart La betulia liberata (K 118): Overture and aria with chorus: Peter Schreier (tenor) Salzburg Chamber Choir and Mozarteum Orch/Hager Quartet in B flat (K 159) Quartetto Italiano
Exsultate, jubilate (K 165) Edith Mathis (soprano); Dresden
Staatskapelle/Klee
Divertimento in B flat (K 186) Holliger Wind Ensemble Lucio Silla: Act 1,Sc 6-7 Edita Gruberova (soprano) Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Vienna Concentus Musicus/ Nikolaus Hamoncourt. Records

4.30pm Mozart In Prague
Anthony Burton visits the city where Mozart enjoyed his biggest success and warmest welcome.
(Rptd Friday 2.00pm)5.30pm Prague
Mozart German Dances (K 509): Academy of St Martin/Neville Marriner Aria: Bella mia fiamma
Felicity Lott (soprano); London Mozart Players/Jane Glover
F X Dussek Piano Concerto in E flat: Jan Novotny; Pardubice State CO/Libor Pesek Mozart Symphony No 38 in D (Prague): Bavarian
RSO/Rafael Kubelik. Records

6.45pm Mozart and the Creative Process
Cliff Eisen, with demonstrations from members of the London Classical Players, investigates Mozart's methods of composing.
7.30pm Paris and Mannheim
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conductor William Christie
Lisa Besnosiuk (flute)
Anthony Robson (oboe) Andrew Watts (bassoon) Frances Kelly (harp)
Monica Huggett (violin) Roger Chase (viola)
Mozart Symphony No 31 in D (Paris): Concerto in C for flute and harp (K 299)

8.30 Mozart on the Road
Peter Branscombe examines the effect of travel on Mozart.

8.45 Cannablch Sinfonia concertante in C for flute, oboe and bassoon
Mozart Sinfonia concertante in E flat for violin and viola
(K 364)

9.30pm Mozart In Vienna
Michael Oliver investigates the importance of Vienna in Mozart's life.
(Repeated Thursday 2.00pm)

10.15-11.00pm Posthorn Serenade
Mozart Serenade in D (K 320) Vienna Mozart Ensemble/ Willi Boskovsky. Record

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