Elly Ameling sings the Mozart song "Little Frederick's Birthday," with Dalton Baldwin at piano. And we hear the West German Radio Symphony play Mozart's Symphony No. 38... the "Prague" Symphony.
Symphony No. 38, "Prague" Charles Mackerras, Conductor Scottish Chamber Orchestra Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Symphony No. 39 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Charles Mackerras, Conductor ...
As you might expect from René Jacobs's conducting of Mozart operas, these performances have a briskness and sense of elan that is always alert to every one of the music's expressive twists and turns.
In 1787 Mozart was invited to Prague, where his opera The Marriage of Figaro was enjoying success. He took with him his Symphony No. 38 and conducted its premiere there, perhaps as a gift to his ...
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