Mozart, Violin Concerto - James Ehnes / Rafael Payare

The overture to The Marriage of Figaro ? No, but a whiff of a wild day as the curtain rises on the Fifth Violin Concerto , a work by a nineteen-year-old Mozart. His smiling humanity contrasts with the advent of the Superman advocated by Nietzsche and Richard Strauss, although the latter refused to translate the philosopher into music. Bechara El-Khoury adds her new Symphonic Concerto to the picture book composed by Thus Spoke Zarathustra .