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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

• 00:00

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Symphony no.25 in G minor, K.183, 1st mvt

  Performer: conductor Alexander Schneider

  • COE Records CDCOE 810 Tr. 1.

• Schuman, translator Henry Pleasants

  Writings, Reader Michael Pennington

• WH Auden

  Metalogue to the Magic Flute, excerpt, Reader Michael Pennington

• 00:02

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Divertimento in B flat, K.186, 1st mvt

  Performer: Ensemble Zefiro

  • Astree E 8573 Tr. 6.
• 00:03

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Die Zauberflote, overture

  Performer: Mahler Chamber Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado

  • DG 477 5789 CD 1 Tr. 1.

• Hardy

  Lines to a Movement in Mozart’s E flat symphony Reader Olivia Williams

• 00:09

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Symphony no.39, K.543, Menuetto

  Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner

  • Philips 422 611 2 CD 5 Tr. 8.

• Goethe trans. Ellen Frothingham

  Hermann und Dorothea – from Terpsichore, reader Michael Pennington

• 00:15

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Dies bildnis ist bezaubernd schon from Die Zauberflote

  Performer: Tamino…Christoph Strehl (tenor), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado

  • DG 477 5789 CD 1 Tr. 5.
• 00:19

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Sinfonia Concertante for violin & viola: Andante

  Performer: violin/director Maxim Vengerov (violin/director), Lawrence Power (viola), Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra

  • EMI 378374 2 Tr. 2.

• Stephanie Cowell

  Marrying Mozart, reader Olivia Williams

• 00:22

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail - March

  Performer: Les Arts Florissants, conductor William Christie

  • Erato 3984 25490 2 CD 1 Tr. 9.
• 00:23

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Violin Sonata in F, K 377, Menuetto

  Performer: Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Alexander Lonquich (piano)

  • EMI CDC 749712 2 Tr. 17.

• Sara Teasdale

  A Minuet of Mozart’s, reader Olivia Williams

• 00:29

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Fantasia in D minor

  Performer: Igo Pogorelich (piano)

  • DG 437 763 2 Tr. 1.

• Wallace Stevens

  Mozart, 1935, reader Michael Pennington

• Lorenzo Da Ponte edited and annotated by Arthur Livingston

  Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte, reader Michael Pennington

• 00:37

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Nozze di Figaro overture

  Performer: Orchestra of the Florence Maggio Musicale, conductor Zubin Mehta

  • Sony S3K 53286 CD 1 tr. 1.

• Mary Shelley

  The Last Man. Vol 1, reader Olivia Williams

• 00:42

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Nozze di Figaro: Porgi amor, Act 2

  Performer: Countess….Charlotte Margiono (soprano), Royal Concertgebouw, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt

  • Teldec 4509 90861 2 CD 1 Tr. 21.
• 00:46

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Masonic funeral music

  Performer: Prague Chamber Orchestra, conductor Pavel Kuhn

  • Supraphon 11 2155 2 Tr. 7.

• Pushkin translator Anthony Wood

  Mozart & Salieri (from The Little Tragedies), reader Michael Pennington

• 00:47

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Requiem Dies Irae

  Performer: Swedish Radio Choir, Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado

  • DG 463 181 2 Tr. 3.

• Oscar Wilde

  Sonnet (after hearing the ‘Dies irae’ from the Requiem), reader Olivia Williams

• 00:49

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Symphony no.38 'Prague', 1st mvt

  Performer: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, conductor Christian Zacharias

  • MDG 340 0967 2 Tr. 1.

• Morike trans. David Luke

  Mozart’s Journey to Prague, reader Michael Pennington

• 00:54

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Don Giovanni: Finale, excerpt

  Performer: Commendatore…..Matti Salminen, Don Giovanni……Feruccio Furlanetto, Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Daniel Barenboim

  • Erato 2292 45588 2 CD 3 Tr. 9.

• Kierkegaard translator Alistair Hannay

  Either/Or reader Michael Pennington

• 00:57

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Serenade for 13 wind instruments 'Gran Partita', Adagio

  Performer: London Winds, director Michael Collins

  • Onyx 4012 Tr. 3.