Child Prodigies
With Richard Baker.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was perhaps the most prodigious of all prodigies. As a tiny child, he lived and breathed music - at bedtime, Wolfgang would sing one half of a song he had composed, and his father had to sing the other half before he would go to bed. Soon after Wolfgang's sixth birthday, his father began taking him and his sister on mammoth performing tours all over Europe, where he dazzled everyone with his virtuosity as a performer and as a composer. Including:
Mozart La Fmta Semplice (excerpt) Helen Donath (soprano),
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, conductor Leopold Hager Allegri Miserere
Tallis Scholars, director Peter Phillips Mozart Sonata in B flat, K358
(excerpt) Christoph Eschenbach and Justus Franz (piano duet)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 9 in E flat, K271 (3rd mvt) Richard Goode , Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
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