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Label Signum Classics |
UPC 0635212025123 |
Catalogue number SIGCD 251 |
Release date 01 July 2011 |
Jeremy Ovenden studied at The Royal College of Music, London and privately with Nicolai Gedda. His regular Mozart appearances have included Ferrando Così fan tutte for The Royal Opera, Covent Garden and Staatsoper Berlin; Ottavio Don Giovanni at La Scala, Milan and Staatsoper Berlin; Count Belfiore La finta giardiniera at La Monnaie, Brussels; Vogelsang Der Schauspieldirektor with Concerto Köln and Publio Il sogno di Scipione and Ozia Betulia Liberata with Concentus Musicus. Appearances at the Salzburg Festival include Fracasso La finta semplice; Don Asdrubale Lo Sposo Deluso, Biondello L’Oco del Cairo and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor. He has also appeared at Netherlands Opera and in concerts with the London Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestras and Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin.
Conductors with whom Jeremy has collaborated include Sir Colin Davis, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Vladimir Jurowski, Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Christophe Rousset, Ivor Bolton, Jeremie Rhorer, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Paul McCreesh Rene Jacobs, Rinaldo Alessandrini and Giovanni Antonini in repertoire ranging from Monteverdi, Bach and Handel through Mozart and Haydn, to Berlioz, Britten, Szymanowski and Henze. Jeremy’s extensive discography includes Mozart’s Il sogno di Scipione, Betulia Liberata, La finta semplice, L’Oca del Cairo and Lo Sposo Deluso; Bach’s St Mark Passion and St John Passion and Cantatas; Biber’s Missa Salisburgensis; Handel’s Ode for St Cecilia’s Day and Saul; Haydn’s The Seasons and The Creation; Holst’s Morning of the Year and Book VIII of Monteverdi Madrigals.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose actual name is Joannes Chrysotomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a composer, pianist, violinist and conductor from the classical period, born in Salzburg. Mozart was a child prodigy. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. Along with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, Mozart is considered to be one of the most influential composers of all of music's history. Within the classical tradition, he was able to develop new musical concepts which left an everlasting impression on all the composers that came after him. Together with Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven he is part of the First Viennese School. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position. From 1763 he traveled with his family through all of Europe for three years and from 1769 he traveled to Italy and France with his father Leopold after which he took residence in Paris. On July 3rd, 1778, his mother passed away and after a short stay in Munich with the Weber family, his father urged him to return to Salzburg, where he was once again hired by the Bishop. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death.