It was 39 seasons ago that conductor George Cleve launched his Midsummer Mozart Festival with a performance of Mozart's Symphony No. 39. Appropriately, that piece resurfaced Thursday night in the ...

This weekend at Jones Hall, under the baton of guest conductor Gilbert Varga, the Houston Symphony performs Mendelssohn’s lovely Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 in E ...

This concert highlights Mozart’s Don Giovanni overture, Symphony No. 39 and Schneider’s “Sinfonia Concertante” ...

Toward the end of his life Mozart composed a miracle even by his own lofty standards – three immortal symphonies that emerged within the period of just a few weeks in the summer of 1788. Virtually ...

A curious gathering of potent spirits has been brewing over the last decade in Boston, Massachusetts. First, in 2008, Harry Christophers replaced Grant Llewellyn as (who, in turn, had replaced Sir ...

Anyone who heard the DG box-set reissue of Hermann Scherchen’s 1950s Haydn symphony recordings with Viennese forces (7/04) will know that distinguished interpretations of Classical symphonies did not ...

In this not-to-be-missed program, the FWSO’s own Principal Clarinetist Stas Chernyshev steps to the front of the stage for Mozart’s sublime clarinet concerto, a work of utter elegance and refinement ...

Beginning with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s hauntingly powerful Overture to Don Giovanni and ending with the majesty and fire of his Symphony No. 39, the evening embraces Georg Abraham Schneider’s ...

Two of Mozart’s great symphonies of 1788 are coupled here in performances that radiate René Jacobs’s characteristically effervescent spirit without compromising the seriousness of discourse. Indeed, ...

The Springfield Symphony Orchestra is welcoming in 2015 with a festive mood. January celebrates the birth month of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with a festival of collaborative programs and concerts ...

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Mozart wrote his first symphony when he was just eight years old, and clocked up 40 more in just over two decades. But where do you start? And which one is best? From 'Paris' to 'Jupiter', Classic FM ...