Mozart mandolin recordings

[Mark Levesque]

I've been asked to accompany a singer on an all Mozart program and I want to play her some examples of the pieces.
Let's see, there's the Caterina Lichtenberg, Alison Stephens versions and Mair/Davis did it as a instrumental with cello.
What versions am I not thinking of?
Do you have a favorite version(s)?

Thanks,
Mark

[Eugene]

I tend to like Stephens. I like the gutty tone of Lichtenberg, but the tempi border on lethargy.

[barbaram]

Michael Hooper recorded the Mandolin part to Deh, vieni alla finestra (Serenade) from Don Giovanni with Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (Conductor: Rudner) on the award winning CD Mozart: Arias and Orchestral Music
available from the

ABC Shops SYDNEY
Shop 48
The Albert Walk
Queen Victoria Building
SYDNEY NSW 2000
Australia
Ph: 612 9286 3726
Fax: 612 9262 7690

Paul Hooper (Mandolin) recorded the two Mozart Songs with the Song Company on a CD called Mozart Unexpurgated available from

The Song Company
Pier 5, The Wharf, Hickson Road
Walsh Bay NSW 2000
Australia
Inquiries
phone 612 9251 1600
mail@songcompany.com.au http://www.songcompany.com.au

[Eugene]

Something about the title "Mozart Unexpurgated" is hugely amusing.

Pender recorded the songs too, but his relatively staccato approach to them doesn't appeal to me personally.

[Mark Levesque]

I just remembered the other one I was trying to think of.
It's a CD I downloaded with my EMusic subscription by Edith Slais, with (to my surprise) a male voice performing the Mozart.

[barbaram]

Eugene.

Paul Hooper's "Mozart Unexpurgated" CD is of the more naughty songs by Mozart!

[Plamen Ivanov]

"Naughty songs" by Mozart, "Mozart unexpurgated"... what are you talking about?

[barbaram]

Did you go to the site?
Here is a direct link to make it easy.
http://www.songcompany.com.au/templat....3&bcp=0 (http://www.songcompany.com.au/templates/tp_ThisPage.asp?pn=Sample+CD%27s+Online&pid=490&mpid=1112&ptid=3&bcp=0)

They describe the CD as
"The master at his wickedest, wittiest and most whimsical"

Now maybe you will understand.

[Plamen Ivanov]

No, I don`t understand!

"They" can describe the CD as they wish. People do everything to advertise their products, to make them distinctive, trying to impress someone, so they can sell the products well. I just don`t find words like these to be relative to Mozart`s music, especially for his mandolin/voice pieces.

Good luck!

[barbaram]

Buy the CD. See how the tracks fit together. See the cover. See the whole. See what "they" (The Song Company) are trying to get at.

Besides all that, the fact remains that Paul Hooper's performance of the Mozart songs are worth having. He is a Mandolinist with superb technique and his always informed musical interpretations are of the highest order.