This beautiful CD is like a time machine that takes us back to the childhood years of Wolfgang and Nannerl Mozart. Illness forced the child prodigies to stay in our country longer than planned, while father Leopold had already been struck down in London by laryngitis. The stay in the Low Countries gave little Mozart the opportunity to compose music for the inauguration of Stadtholder Willem V. Among
… the praise was the Gallimathias Musicum, whose fugue about the (then common) melody of the Wilhelmus can be heard on the CD is. In the Symphony K.16, composed recently in London, we already hear glimpses of the later Mozart. From that adult Mozart - from after the patricide - we hear the beautiful variations on Ah, vous dirai-je, maman (better known as Kortjakket is sick, or Twinkle twinkle little star). The program by Leopold Mozart includes the popular Cassatio ex G 'mit der Kindersinfonie': an engaging piece of music in which generous use is made of all kinds of toy instruments. (HJ)more
