Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos 1, 2 & 3 London Symphony Orchestra & Nikolaj Znaider

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, K. 207:
• 1 Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, K. 207: I. Allegro Moderato 06:40
• 2 Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, K. 207: II. Adagio 06:40
• 3 Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, K. 207: III. Presto 05:48
• Violin concerto No. 2 in D Major, K. 211:
• 4 Violin concerto No. 2 in D Major, K. 211: I. Allegro Moderato 08:25
• 5 Violin concerto No. 2 in D Major, K. 211: II. Andante 07:40
• 6 Violin concerto No. 2 in D Major, K. 211: III. Rondeau. Allegro 04:18
• Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216 "Strassburg":
• 7 Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216 "Strassburg": I. Allegro 08:26
• 8 Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216 "Strassburg": II. Adagio 07:32
• 9 Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216 "Strassburg": III. Rondeau. Allegro 06:06
• Total Runtime 01:01:35

Info for Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos 1, 2 & 3

Taking on the roles of both conductor and soloist, Nikolaj Znaider concludes his Mozart series on LSO Live with the great composer’s first three concertos for the violin.

While they were penned before he was even out of his teens, the music of Mozart’s violin concertos is as characteristically elegant and uplifting as anything he would ever write. Znaider teases out the wit and charm in these delightful pieces, leading the virtuoso players of the London Symphony Orchestra as Mozart would have done, from the violin.

London Symphony Orchestra
Nikolaj Znaider, conductor

Nikolaj Znaider
performs at the highest level as both conductor and virtuoso violin soloist with the world’s most distinguished orchestras. He has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Mariinsky Orchestra Saint Petersburg since 2010, and was previously Principal Guest Conductor of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra.

Following a triumphant return to the Tanglewood Festival with the Boston Symphony and Juanjo Mena, the 2017/18 season sees Znaider continue his Mozart recording project with the London Symphony Orchestra with the second and third concertos directed from the violin. He has a particularly strong relationship with the LSO; an orchestra he conducts and performs as soloist with every season. Their recording of Mozart’s Violin Concertos 4 and 5 will be released on the LSO Live label in March 2018. Working at the highest level as both as conductor and as soloist, Znaider appears regularly with orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Dresden, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Chicago Symphony.

Znaider’s extensive discography includes the Nielsen Concerto with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic, Elgar Concerto in B minor with the late Sir Colin Davis and the Staatskapelle Dresden, award-winning recordings of the Brahms and Korngold concertos with Valery Gergiev and the Vienna Philharmonic, the Beethoven and Mendelssohn concertos with Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic, the Prokofiev Concerto No. 2 and Glazunov Concerto with Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony, and the Mendelssohn Concerto on DVD with Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhaus Orchestra. Znaider has also recorded the complete works of Brahms for violin and piano with Yefim Bronfman.

He is passionate about supporting the next generation of musical talent and spent ten years as Founder and Artistic Director of the annual Nordic Music Academy summer school, and is now President of the Nielsen Competition, which takes place every three years in Odense, Denmark.

Nikolaj Znaider plays the “Kreisler” Guarnerius “del Gesu” 1741 on extended loan to him by The Royal Danish Theater through the generosity of the VELUX Foundations, the Villum Fonden and the Knud Højgaard Foundation.

Booklet for Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos 1, 2 & 3