Netherlands Chamber Orchestra reviews
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (Amsterdam, 2016)
The London Connection: Works by Beethoven, Clementi & JP Cramer
Noa Wildschut's debut recording of Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5, Adagio in E and Violin Sonata No. 32
Here’s the debut recording of a very young – only 15 when this all-Mozart programme was recorded, in October 2016 – and obviously very remarkable instrumentalist. According to Warner’s booklet essayist she’s already ‘the pre-eminent young Dutch violinist’, a big claim backed up by an already striking number of international debuts and by her collaboration with such distinguished seniors as Anne-Sophie Mutter.
Mozart: The Magic Flute [DVD]
Freshness of vision, emotional openness, genuine ensemble theatricality, a robustly physical sense of adventure humorous and serious (but never portentous) by turns, and an underlying directorial trust in Mozart’s music: these qualities stay with me most strongly after two viewings of this DVD, among the most rewarding experiences of the opera I’ve had in nearly five decades of Magic Flute encounters.