Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) The complete Violin Concertos 1-7, Rondos & Adagio.

Konzert für Violine und Orchester No.1 B-dur / in B flat / Si bemolle maggiore, K 207

Allegro moderato (00:00)

Adagio (07:29)

Presto (15:38)

Konzert für Violine und Orchester No.2 D-Dur / in D / Re maggiore, K 211

Allegro moderato (21:18)

Andante (29:37)

Rondeau - Allegro (37:19)

Konzert für Violine und Orchester No.3 G-dur / in G / Sol maggiore, K 216

Allegro (42:02)

Adagio (50:43)

Rondo - Allegro (59:24)

Adagio KV 261 für Violine und Orchester E-dur / in E / Mi maggiore (1:05:40)

Rondo KV 269 für Violine und Orchester B-dur / in B flat / Si bemolle maggiore (1:13:49)

Rondo KV 373 für Violine und Orchester C-dur / in C / Do maggiore (1:20:00)

Konzert für Violine und Orchester No.4 D-dur / in D / Re maggiore KV 218

Allegro (1:25:19)

Andante cantabile (1:34:55)

Rondeau - Andante grazioso - Allegro ma non troppo (1:42:05)

Konzert für Violine und Orchester No.5 A-dur / in A / La maggiore K 219

Allegro aperto (1:49:24)

Adagio (1:59:04)

Rondeau - Tempo di Menuetto - Allegro (2:10:02)

Konzert für Violine und Orchester No.6 Es-dur / E flat / Mi bemolle maggiore K 268

Allegro moderato (2:19:11)

Un poco Adagio (2:30:50)

Rondo - Allegretto (2:36:59)

Konzert für Violine und Orchester No.7 D-dur / in D / Re maggiore KV 271i

Allegro maestoso (2:43:05)

Andante (2:54:39)

Rondo - Allegro (3:02:27)

Violine : Josef Suk

Prague Chamber Orchestra

Conductor : Libor Hlaváček

Stéréo recordings in 1972-73

Label : Eurodisc

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was still a very young child when he received his first violin lessons, lessons
that were based in all likelihood on the violin tutor published in 1756 by is father, Leopold, who was
employed at that time as a violinist in the service of the prince-archbishop of Salzburg. If contemporary
accounts may be trusted, the young Mozart must have been highly proficient on the instrument, since
he too was employed as a violinist in the local orchestra during his years in Salzburg. His special
relationship with the violin finds its sonatas that he wrote in the course of his life. The violin concerto, by
contrast, was a genre that caught his attention only once, all five of his contributions to the medium
dating from 1774/75. There are five official concertos. But, much remains unclear, however. There is
also, a concerto in E flat (K.268), but its authenticity is ope to question, while the D Violin Concerto (K
271i) survives only in the form of a late transcription made in Paris in the 19th century, the original form
of which can no longer be reconstructed with any certainty. Britta Sweers

The violin virtuoso and conductor Josef Suk (1929-2011) is a representative of a line of Czech performing
art of the past. He has developed the legacy of his excellent teachers, mainly Jaroslav Kocian and his
grandfather, the composer Josef Suk, who for a long-time was a member of the famed Czech Quartet.
From the beginning of his solo career Suk has also been interested in chamber playing, and was for a
short time the first violinist of the Prague Quartet (1950–52), and then for a long time of the Suk Trio,
which he had established in 1951. In 1961 he was appointed soloist of the Czech Philharmonic
Orchestra. Suk has a special liking for the viola, the instrument of his great grandfather Antonín Dvořák.
In 1981 he became the artistic leader and conductor of the Suk Chamber Orchestra. His recordings have
won various prizes, such as the Grand Prix du disque de l´Academie Charles Cros in Paris six times, in
1972 he won the Edison Prize in Holland, in 1974 the “Wiener Flötenuhr” prize of the Mozart Society in
Vienna, and many others. In 1977 Josef Suk received the Golden Disc of Culumbia, the Golden Disc of
Supraphon in 1986 and in 1999 he was granted the Platinum Disc of Supraphon for 1,112,000 recordings
sold. He has been a teacher of violin playing and has sat on many juries of international competitions.
He has also taken part in the work of foundations such as the Dvořák Foundation for Young Performers
in Prague. He is president and chairman of the artistic board of the Prague Spring International Music
Festival.. http://www.antonindvorak2004.cz