Tuesday, May 31, 2022

“Otto Klemperer A la Carte

 


No. 387 of the ongoing ITYWLTMT series of audio montages is this week's Friday Blog and Podcast. It can be found in our archives at https://archive.org/details/pcast387



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Original posts: TalkClassical; Blogger

As may has five Tuesday, my A la Carte post doubles as our quarterly Tuesday podcast. For the occasion, I am extending my Vinyl’s Revenge share from 2016 by adding a Mozart symphony, which in turn uses one of the three symphonies we had featured in our 2011 post called “Mozart’s European Vacation”. Here’s what I wrote then about the Prague symphony:

Mozart is often said to have had a special relationship with the city of Prague and its people. Mozart is claimed to have said, "Meine Prager verstehen mich" ("My Praguers understand me"), a saying which became famous in the Bohemian lands.

Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro, which premiered in Vienna, was produced in late 1786 in Prague with tremendous success. The orchestra and some affiliated music lovers funded a personal visit by Mozart so he could hear the production. Mozart arrived on 11 January 1787 and was feted everywhere. On 19 January he gave an "academy" (that is, a concert for his own profit) at which the “Prague” Symphony in D major was premiered.

Again, this performance features Otto Klemperer and the Philharmonia Orchestra

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