| 1 CD |
€ 19.95
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| Label Signum Classics |
UPC 0635212089927 |
Catalogue number SIGCD 899 |
Release date 04 July 2025 |
David Goode is one of the UK’s leading organists. He was organ scholar at King’s College, Cambridge and Sub-Organist at Christ Church, Oxford, and was for 17 years Organist at Eton College. He is now a busy freelance recitalist, accompanist, continuo player and teacher.
He has performed frequently as a soloist at the Proms (including a solo recital in 2006 and being a featured artist in 2011), the Royal Festival Hall (including the re-opening concert in 2014) and Symphony Hall Birmingham, and has toured extensively abroad with concerts throughout Europe, North America, Australia and the Far East. Notable partnerships over the years include the BBCNOW, the BBC Singers and the trumpeter Alison Balsom. His most recent live solo recital for BBC Radio 3 was in 2019.
Amongst many recordings across 30 years, he recently released a much-admired set of the complete organ works of Bach for Signum Records (“This series is notable for the flair, clarity and
spontaneity that Goode brings to this timeless music” Gramophone; ***** 5 Stars BBC Music Magazine). His various Reger recordings have also been warmly received, and more recent projects have included music by John Pickard for BIS (‘magnificently assured and enviably concentrated’, Gramophone) and works by Locklair with the choir of Royal Holloway for Convivium Records.
A distinguished teacher over many years, he was on the jury for the 2017 St Alban’s International Competition. He has composed extensively, with recordings including those by the choir of King’s College, Cambridge; his Blitz Requiem was premiered at St. Paul’s Cathedral in 2013.
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.
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