Mostly Mozart (Fringe) Festival - #4400, Rock Me Amadeus, Part 5
As part of our week-long Mostly Mozart fringe festival to augment Mostly Mozart on WQXR, Mozart meets glissandos in an homage by Wisconsin-born German-based composer Gloria Coates. There’s also Mozart arranged as Southern Italian folk music, Cuban Mambo and traditional Arab classical music for this fifth and final episode in the Mostly Mozart “Fringe” Festival, subtitled, “Rock Me Amadeus.”
Hear music by Wausau, Wisconsin native Gloria Coates, and her Symphony No. 15, “Homage to Mozart,” written for the 250th anniversary celebration of Mozart’s birth. We’ll hear the movement called “Puzzle Canon” based on a backwards Mozart melody, and lots of glissandos.
Also, hear music by violinist, composer, and improviser Mazz Swift, inspired by Mozart, and recorded live just a few days ago, at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn. Plus, hear an arrangement of a violin concerto for two of the three Villalobos Brothers and a double-bass player, recorded in Staten Island this week, also as part of The Greene Space bringing Mozart to the five boroughs.
Then, listen to Nando Citarella arranges another Mozart opera aria from Marriage of Figaro, done up as a Southern Italian folk song. Hear another arrangement of Mozart by Sarah Willis and the Havana Lyceum Orchestra, from their excellent Mozart y Mambo record, along with more music from Mozart L’Egyptien (Mozart in Egypt) taking on the hues of traditional Arab classical music.
ARTIST: Falco
WORK: Rock Me Amadeus [:30]
RECORDING: Rock Me Amadeus single
SOURCE: A & M #15105 LP
INFO: Reissued in 2016 for the 30th anniversary of the song. Available via Amazon.com AppleMusic or Spotify
ARTIST: The Shadows
WORK: Mozart Forte [2:50]
RECORDING: Change of Address
SOURCE: Polydor
INFO: Out of print, but try Youtube to hear the song again.
ARTIST: Michael Nyman
WORK: I Am An Unusual Thing [6:21]
RECORDING: Mozart 252
SOURCE: Michael Nyman MNRCD113
INFO: Michaelnyman.com
ARTIST: Michael Boder cond. The Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
WORK: Gloria Coates: Symphony No. 15, "Homage to Mozart" - II. Puzzle Canon [8:26]
RECORDING: Symphony no. 15 / Cantata da Requiem / Transitions
SOURCE: Naxos Classical
INFO: Available at Applemusic, Spotify and Amazon.com
ARTIST: Nando Citarella
WORK: IV Banditore - Voi Che Sapete (Nozze de Figaro) [5:51]
RECORDING: Mozart al chiaro de luna
SOURCE: Radici Music Records 119
INFO: Available at cdroots.com, Amazon.com or AppleMusic
ARTIST: Mazz Swift
WORK: Poem For A Song That's Yet To Come [5:36]
RECORDING: Live, at the Old Stone House, Brooklyn
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: mazzmusic.com
ARTIST: Alberto & Ernesto Villalobos and Victor Murillo
WORK: Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4, slow mvmt [3:51]
RECORDING: Live on FDR Boardwalk at South Beach, Staten Island
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: thegreenespace.org
ARTIST: Sarah Willis
WORK: Sarahnade Mambo (based on Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525) [6:34]
RECORDING: Mozart y Mambo
SOURCE: Alpha Classics
INFO: https://lnk.to/Mozart_y_MamboAr
ARTIST: Hughes de Courson et al
WORK: Lamma Bada Yatathanna[1:24]
RECORDING: Mozart L’Egyptien (Mozart in Egypt)
SOURCE: Virgin Classics #71727
INFO: French import CD. Available at Amazon.com, Spotify, AppleMusic
