“Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.” – Tchaikovsky
“Mozart’s music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.” – Karl Barth
“Mozart’s music is so beautiful as to entice angels down to earth.” – Franz Alexander von Kleist
“Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart’s – the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering–a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages.” – Leonard Bernstein
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Mozart – Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter” – Dima Slobodeniouk, Conductro – Sinfonica de Galicia
Dispatches from the Asylum 