This entry is a bit of a link log:
and a sticky post
09:04 Currently playing on the Gert Cottage CD player:
Austria celebrates Mozart at 250
VOTE: Your favourite Mozart piece
Mozart: the singers' perspective - Gerald Finley and Philip Langridge tell us, in their own words, what sets Mozart apart from other composers.
UK TV highlights:
BBC4 Mozart 250 at 1900-2000; and 2300 - 0400
Artsworld has various Mozart from 1900-2220 and Performance is 'launching the first of a series of own-brand productions with a documentary exploring the musical secrets that underpinned the genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.' Blimey...
Google has noticed
A little on the younger son, Franz Xaver Mozart (neither of Wolfie's surviving sons had children)
Damn, to think that we satisfied ourselves a couple of years ago that Mozart never had a blog. Turns out he does. Seems to be struggling a bit with bandwidth at the moment.
Why Radio 3 isn't scheduling Mozart (or any excuse for the Murdochian Empire to attack the BBC)
Even the Mirror has a Mozart story
The Official Mozart2006 blog - in German
And Nannerl's blogging, too
A monk blogs on Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hacker...well, put that way...
It's Mozart's 250th Birth Anniversary!
11.30: Currently listening to: Buy it, it's ace. Not yet available on Amazon, I read somewhere that the offical release day is 30 January. But that would be silly, because today is Mozart Day. And I got it through my letter box on Wednesday. Read my review of the connected concert
Happy Birthday to Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Theophilus Mozart, with mp3s
The US-based National Public Radio has a Mozart special
A Primer on Getting to Know Mozart
Wikipedia, with mp3s
Nicholas Kenyon's Must Have Mozart
The Classical Station seems to be playing Mozart all day.
The Wellsungs have some nice mp3s
And then there's the UKblogging Marriage of Figaro debate
Then I played Exsultate Jubilate again
14:22 now playing - although I have an earlier slightly different edition of this one...Someone once phoned me up and, hearing this, apologised for getting me out of the bath. Funnily enough, I had got out of the bath just before she had phoned. And she didn't even know me - councillor's casework...!
1700: Now playing a CD of Symphonies 29 and 40. On a CD which is obviously a poor relation of Naxos; but damn fine interpretations by the Camerata Academica Salzburg under Bernhard Paumgartner. Oh, Salzburg....
And absolutely nothing to do with Mozart, but today is also the 105th anniversary of Verdi's death
