Learning to Listen: Barton Pine and Mozart

I heard Rachel Barton Pine on New Classical Tracks one day, talking about Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto.

I was immediately drawn to her passion and knowledge about her instrument and the music she plays with it.

She has a new recording out, and she joins Learning to Listen to speak about the five violin concertos that Mozart wrote.

Mozart was a violin player, too, but his father, Leopold, nagged the young Wolfgang to practice a bit too much, and by the time Mozart was 20, he never wrote another solo concerto for violin.

He stopped playing violin too, favoring the viola in his "later" years (he died when he was 35).

Rachel talks about her love for Mozart, and introduces us to a young violist named Matthew Lipman. Matthew joins Rachel on the new recording to perform Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, a double concerto for solo violin and viola.

Rachel will be back next week to continue the conversation; we'll talk about cadenzas, and the famous Turkish influence in Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5.

Program Playlist

WA Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 2, 3rd movement
Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Neville Marriner, cond
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Avie 2317

WA Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 1, 1st movement
Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Neville Marriner, cond
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Avie 2317

WA Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante, 3rd movement
Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Neville Marriner, cond
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Avie 2317

WA Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 4
Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Neville Marriner, cond
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Avie 2317

WA Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 1, 3rd movement
Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Neville Marriner, cond
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Avie 2317

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