The Complete Mozart
You don’t even have to leave the house for this warm-up. Just grab one of the 180 CDs on the now legendary Complete Mozart boxed set, newly re-released on Phillips. Maybe you’ll have heard a hundredth of it by the end of the day.
Jan 7
Prodigy of Nature
London
Wigmore Hall, W1 (020-7935 2141)
The Classical Opera Company kicks off the Wigmore Hall’s commemorative season. Accompanied by the period instruments of the Classical Ensemble, the concert of early work includes the eight-year-old Mozart’s first symphony and excerpts from his early operas.
Jan 8
Mozart and Shostakovich
London
Barbican, EC2 (020-7638 8891)
A double birthday celebration, featuring Bernard Haitink leading Murray Perahia and the London Symphony Orchestra through Mozart’s 20th Piano Concerto.
Jan 9
The Mozart Encyclopedia
Put your feet up with a nice book— The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia, newly published by CUP for 2006, and featuring everything you ever needed to know.
Jan 10
Park Lane Group Young Artists
London
Purcell Room, SE1 (0870 4018181)
Promising young musician David Alexander gives a recital of four different Mozart piano pieces.
Jan 11
Chester Music Society Celebrity Concert
Chester
St Mary’s Centre (01244 402385)
This program offers Debussy and Brahms, as well as the obligatory piece by Wolfgang. Nadia Wijzenbeek on violin and Samantha Ward, piano, in Mozart’s Sonata for Keyboard and Violin No 25 in F.
Jan 12
Mozart 250 – Mozart and the Ottoman Empire
Ayre
Town Hall (01292 611222)
Rebecca Nash and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra pay homage to the obvious eastern influences in much of Mozart’s music
Mozart – The Great Quartets
London
Jerwood Hall, St Luke’s, EC1 (020-7638 8891)
This lunchtime concert on Old Street is part of Radio 3’s Mozart celebrations. The Belcea Quartet perform the Hoffmeister and Prussian quartets.
Jan 13
Mozart: Park Lane Group Young Artists
London
Purcell Room, SE1 (0870 4018181)
Exceptionally cheap, and a fantastic opportunity to hear two Mozart violin sonatas and a world premiere: a new piece from Simon Holt.
Jan 14
Mozart 250 – Mozart and the Ottoman Empire
Edinburgh
Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh (0131 6682019)
As above (Jan 12)
Jan 15
Mozart 250 – Mozart and the Ottoman Empire
Glasgow
City Halls, Glasgow (0141-287 5511)
As above (Jan 12)
Sunday Coffee Concert
Hove
The Old Market, Hove (01273 736222)
Mozart’s String Quartet No 16 in E flat opens this morning concert.
Jan 16
Mozart’s Women
We know the man so well, but what about the women who shaped his life and guarded his legacy? Jane Glover’s fascinating book tells the story of his mother, sisters and wife.
Jan 17
Amadeus – The Director’s Cut
Peter Shaffer’s play gave us a credible flesh and blood Mozart, indelibly seared on our imagination by Milos Forman’s feature film, now on DVD.
Jan 18
London Philharmonic Orchestra/Mark Elder
London
Queen Elizabeth Hall, SE1 (0870 3800400)
The evening opens with a performance of Mozart’s Symphony No 34 in C.
CBSO/Oramo
Birmingham
Symphony Hall, Birmingham (0121-780 3333)
An all-Mozart programme including the much-loved Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments, after which the conductor, Sakari Oramo, swaps baton for bow when he plays the violin for the Adagio in E for Violin and Piano.
Jan 19
Alfred Brendel
Reading
The Town Hall (0118 9606060)
The incomparable Brendel plays Haydn and Schubert as well as two Mozart pieces.
Mozart 250 – Mozart’s Paris Edinburgh Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh (0131 6682019) The Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Frans Brüggen, performs pieces on the theme of Paris. The concert ends with Mozart’s Paris Symphony, No 31 in D.
Jan 20
Mozart 250 – Mozart’s Paris
Glasgow
City Halls, Glasgow (0141 2875511)
(as above)
Manchester Camerata Ensemble
Crewe
Lyceum Theatre (01270 537333)
The North West’s leading chamber group places Schubert and Britten string trios in between Mozart’s Divertimento in E flat and Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola and Cello in F.
Emma Johnson
Enniskillen
Ardhowen Theatre (028-6632 5440)
Britain’s favourite clarinettist and the Ulster Orchestra play Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto.
Jan 21
The London Mozart Players
Croydon
Fairfield Concert Hall (020-8688 9291)
The performance includes Symphony No 25 in G minor as well as Simon Callow’s narration of Thamos, King of Egypt, for which Mozart wrote incidental music.
Jan 22
London Mozart Players
Basingstoke
The Anvil (01256 844244)
Programme as above (Jan 21)
Jan 23
Skampa Quartet
London
Wigmore Hall, W1 (020-7935 2141)
This Czech ensemble performs Mozart String Quartets E minor and D flat.
Jan 24
Bavarian Philharmonic KlangVerwaltung
London
Cadogan Hall, SW1 (020-7730 4500)
Bruckner’s Fourth alongside Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 21 with Freddy Kempf.
Jan 25
Britten Sinfonia/Little
London
Queen Elizabeth Hall (0870 3800400)
Tasmin Little conducts and plays in the Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, with Martin Outram.
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Storgards
Poole
Lighthouse (01202 685222)
Anna Pyne and Eluned Pierce are the soloists for the Flute and Harp Concerto.
Jan 26
Orchestra of Opera North/Shelley
Huddersfield
Town Hall (01484 223200)
Symphonies No 40 and No 39, with the overture to The Marriage of Figaro and the 23rd Piano Concerto.
Philharmonia/Pletnev
London
Queen Elizabeth Hall, SE1 (0870 3800400)
Mikhail Pletnev is conductor and pianist for the 40th Symphony and Piano Concerto No 20.
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Edinburgh
Queen’s Hall (0131 6682019)
Mozart Piano Concertos with Piotr Anderszewski alternate with orchestral music by Prokofiev.
Jan 27
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Cardiff
St David’s Hall (029-2087 8444)
The wonderful Paul Lewis plays Mozart’s 25th Piano Concerto.
Piano Concerto Series
Oxford
Sheldonian Theatre (01865 305305)
The Oxford Philomusica start their concerto frenzy with performances of K175, K488 and K491.
BBC SO/Robertson
London
Barbican, EC2 (020-7638 8891)
The Jupiter Symphony and the great Mass in C minor, with Emma Bell and James Rutherford.
Amadeus at Aldeburgh
Aldeburgh
Snape Maltings (01728 687110)
Emma Johnson, Christian Blackshaw and the Endellion String Quartet, while Aldeburgh Cinema shows the 1967 documentary The Life of Mozart.
Mozart Around the Clock
Sheffield
Sheffield Theatres (0114-249 6000)
Ensemble 360 undertake a marathon, with concerts from 7.45pm through to 8.45pm the following day. Can you take it?
Requiem
Dewsbury
Town Hall (01484 223200)
Howard Shelley conducts the Orchestra of Opera North.
Jan 28
Mozart Birthday Concert
Brighton
St Bartholomew’s Church (01273 709709)
Eine kleine Nachtmusik and the Mass in C minor: a sparkling birthday treat.
Amanda Roocroft
Macclesfield
Heritage Centre, Macclesfield (0161 247222)
The British diva sings arias from Così fan tutte and Idomeneo.
London Mozart Players/Parrott
London
St John’s, Smith Square (020-7222 1061)
There’s chamber music in the afternoon, and the evening includes the Clarinet Concerto and Thamos, King of Egypt.
A Festival of Mozart
Liverpool
Philharmonic Hall (0151-709 3789)
The Sinfonia Concertante with Thelma Handy on violin, David Greenlees, viola.
Jan 29
Bavarian Philharmonia Klangverwaltung
Middlesbrough
Town Hall (01642 729729)
Freddy Kempf tackles the Piano Concerto No 21, and there’s also the overture to The Marriage of Figaro.
London Mozart Players/Parrott
London
St John’s, Smith Square (020-7222 1061)
At 3pm it’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik; in the evening comes the Jupiter Symphony, and James Galway playing the Flute Concerto No 2.
Jan 30
Vienna Boys Choir
Try a night in with the sublime voices of the world-renowned choir, whose DVD of Mozart Choral Works is released on Decca.
Jan 31
The Marriage of Figaro
London
Royal Opera House (020-7304 4000)
A new production of Mozart’s most popular opera, with Erwin Schrott and Dorothea Röschmann.
The Genius of Mozart
London
St John’s, Smith Square (020-7222 1061)
The Hanover Band strike a solemn note with music from Mozart’s final year.
