Mozart - Complete Edition

Brilliant's Complete Mozart Edition, released in 2006, was an international hit, winning plaudits from critics and customers alike for the quality of the music-making and representing great value for money.

Why, then, have they chosen not to rest on their laurels but to improve upon this successful product? Here are some of the reasons:

1. The interpretation of Mozart’s music continues to evolve and, four years on from the original release, Brilliant Classics’ Complete Mozart Edition has evolved with it. We have included new recordings by prominent Mozart performers such as Guiliano Carmignola (violin concertos) and Oficina Musicum (La Betulia Liberata). Several of the recordings have already won the coveted Diapason d’or.

2. The enhanced contents - Brilliant Classics’ Complete Mozart Edition contains:
• 170 CDs representing the entirety of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s oeuvre in historically informed performances.
• 1 Interactive DVD: The most comprehensive survey of Mozart’s life and music, a step-by-step celebration in sound and vision of the creations of a genius.
• 1 CD-ROM containing liner notes and performers’ biographies in English, librettos and sung texts, and the complete 2010 Brilliant Classics catalogue.

Included are all of the concertos, symphonies, chamber music, divertimenti, sonatas and, of course, the operas.

Performances are by such outstanding soloists and ensembles as:
Jaap ter Linden, Peter-Lukas Graf, Giuliano Carmignola, Karl Leister, Bart van Oort, Salvatore Accardo, Bruno Canino, Nobuko Imai, Claron McFadden, Sigiswald Kuijken, Zoltan Kocsis; Chamber Choir of Europe, Choeurs du Théatre Royal de la Monnaie; Mozart Akademie Amsterdam, Philharmonia Orchestra, Camerata Bern, Mozarteum-Orchester Salzburg, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Wiener Akademie, Orchestre du Théatre Royal de la Monnaie, Staatskapelle Dresden, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Kammerorchester Berlin, English Chamber Orchestra, Brandis Quartet.

3. The packaging: Our new, redesigned packaging provides CDs in slipcases and the complete set is neatly displayable in a single, attractive space-saving box.

Mozart Interactive
An interactive DVD by Titus Leber containing the most comprehensive survey of Mozart’s life and music - a step-by-step celebration in sound and vision of the creations of a genius.

Experience Mozart’s Universe, his life and his music in this encyclopaedic DVD production of unprecedented scope and content:

• More than 2 hours of interactive navigation along some 80 classical music video clips.
• An additional 7.5 hours of music featuring Mozart’s most famous tunes and arias.
• Video clips from and introductions to 20 operas.
• A “Data-highway”in 3D animation points the viewer to the major events in Mozart’s life and his era, and offers deep insight into his musical creations.

Narrators: Simon Broad, Miguel Herz-Kestranek, Mijou Kovacs, Heinz Christian Sauer
Featuring, amongst others: Berliner Philharmoniker/Herbert von Karajan, Samuel Ramey, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Kathleen Battle, Julia Varady, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Paata Burchuladze, Barbara Hendricks, Nicolai Gedda, Anneliese Rothenberger, Edda Mozer, Theo Adam, Sir Colin Davis.

Format 4:3 - Sound 2.0 –
Language: English, Deutsch, Français
NTSC - DVD Video
LC 09421 STEMRA
Dolby Digital

For reasons of completeness, pure musical enjoyment, scholarly research, attractive, space-saving design and price, you cannot afford to be without Brilliant Classics’ improved Complete Mozart Edition!

170 CDs + CD-ROM + DVD