There is no place where Mozart's name is more feted than in his home city of Salzburg. Mozart's own feelings about the city of his birth were ambivalent at best. He was often unhappy there; frustrated by the limitations of musical life in Salzburg and increasingly at loggerheads with his overbearing employer, the high-handed Archbishop Colloredo. "How I detest Salzburg", he wrote, and sought to escape the place on many occasions. Nevertheless this was the place where he spent his formative years, where he composed many great works, and where he developed into the composer we now celebrate as one of the greatest of any age. All this week Donald Macleod explores the story of Mozart's relationship with the place where his genius was forged.

Archbishop Colloredo took over as ruler of Salzburg in 1772, and immediately moved to curb Mozart's regular jaunts around Europe. He was determined that the child genius should contribute more fully to musical life at home and put Mozart to work writing for the church. If it rankled, taking what was in effect a servants job, after all the adulation he'd enjoyed abroad, Mozart didn't show it...yet.

Il Sogno di Scipione (Aria "Se vuoi che te reccolgano")
Claes H. Ahnsjö, tenor (Publio)
Salzburger Kammerchor
Mozarteum-Orchester Salzburg
Leopold Hager, director & continuo

Exsultate, jubilate, K165
Emma Kirkby, soprano
The Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood, director

Serenade in D major, K203 (last 2 movts)
Tapiola Sinfonietta
Jean-Jacques Kantorow

Piano Concerto No 1 in F major, K37
Arthur Schoonderwoerd, harpsichord
Cristofori
Emilio Moreno, concertmaster. Show less