Mozart lives! Camerata Salzburg toasts its hometown hero

By Mark Pullinger, 30 January 2021

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“there was a pleasing contrast between Capuçon’s satin tone and Caussé’s mellow richness”

Reviewed at Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg: Großer Saal, Salzburg on 30 January 2021

Mozart, Symphony no. 31 in D major, "Paris”, K297 (K300a)

Mozart, Exsultate, jubilate, K165 (K158a)

Mozart, Aria for Soprano, "Nehmt meinen Dank, ihr holden Gönner!", K383

Mozart, Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola in E flat major, K364 (K320d)

Mozart, Il re pastore, K208: L'ameró, sarò costante

Mozart, Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K620: Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen

Regula Mühlemann, Soprano

Renaud Capuçon, Violin

Gérard Caussé, Viola

Camerata Salzburg

Giedrė Šlekytė, Conductor

Rolando Villazón, Tenor

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Elena Luporini, 19th May

Who needs conductors when you've got synergy? The Camerata Salzburg and Hélène Grimaud bring Mozart and Brahms to Berlin's Philharmonie.

****1

Julia Fischer's Beethoven shines at Gstaad Menuhin Festival

Laurence Vittes, 16th July

Intimate and powerful, Fischer's performance with Camerata Salzburg feels like a match made in heaven.

****1

Light and shadows up to Mozart's summit

Luce Zurita, 11th March

Nested in the warmth of Cadogan Hall, Camerata Salzburg and Ben Gernon brought life to Mozart's eternal music whose multi-faceted joy carried in its wake the British violinist Nicola Benedetti.

***11

The Salzburg Camerata and Angela Hewitt with Bach concertos for keyboard in Pavia

James Imam, 1st April

Worlds apart from those interpretations where Bach's expressivity is left to speak for itself, tonight's approach provided a complementary carapace that navigated us through Bach's score in unexpected ways.

****1

Hilary Hahn and the Camerata Salzburg shine at the Berlin Konzerthaus

Christie Franke, 1st October

The Camerata Salzburg’s evening of Mozart, Enescu and Vaughan Williams at Berlin’s Konzerthaus was a crisp and bubbling performance that stimulated the intellect as well as the emotions. Beginning the evening with George Enescu’s Two Intermezzi for String Orchestra, the Camerata swept audience members away into a world gone, but too lovely to be forgotten.

****1

Some like it hot: Heinrich Schiff and the Camerata Salzburg cook up a concert in a sweltering Vienna

Chanda VanderHart, 18th June

You know that it is really warm in the hall when a special announcement before the concert is made apologizing to all the ladies in the house that the men in the orchestra will be playing without their suit jackets due to the heat. We in the audience, fanning ourselves incessantly, were only too happy to be forgiving, as the orchestra must have been fairly melting under the lights.

***11

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.