Great Composers Vol.1 - Bach/Mozart - Warner Music Group Germany

Der erste Teil des dreiteiligen BBC Programm Great Composers zeigt das Leben und Wirken der großen Komponisten Bach und Mozart. Die einzelnen Portraits werden durch ausgiebige Konzert Sequenzen und Interviews dargestellt.

Bach:
Music performed by The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists
Conducted by John Eliot Gardiner Thomanerchor, Leipzig
Keyboard: Ton Koopman & Tini Mathot, Jacques Loussier, Joanna MacGregor

Mozart:
Music performed by the London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Colin Davis
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Endellion Quartet
Piano: Imogen Cooper

This programme presents the lives and works of Bach and Mozart, as featuring in the BBC series Great Composers. It examines the backgrounds influences and relationships that make these composers part of the very fabric of the history of western music. Each composer's life and work is presented through extensive performance sequences, and through interviews and comment from some of today's greatest artists and most respected authorities.

English version narrated by Kenneth Branagh

Contributors include:
András Schiff, Joanna MacGregor, Ton Koopman, Charles Rosen, Jacques Loussier, John Eliot Gardiner, Jonathan Miller, Sir Georg Solti, Cecilia Bartoli, Sir Colin Davis, Lillian Watson, Imogen Cooper

Bach: Produced and Directed by James Runcie
Mozart: Produced and Directed by Francesca Kemp
Series Executive Producer: Kriss Rusmanis