The Mozart Festival

Airs, Saturday, November 17 at 2:00 p.m. The Mozart Festival is recorded in Mozart's hometown of Salzburg, Austria and includes performances by some of the world's leading soloists and orchestras, backstage clips with performers, and location-recorded features touring the Mozarteum Foundation's priceless collections, including Mozart's original manuscripts and personal possessions. On this week's program we'll hear Salieri's Arias  “Père barbare, arache-moi”  &  "Par les larmes” from Les Danaïdes with soprano Mojca Erdmann;  Mozart's  Sonata for Violin and Pianoforte in C featuring Robert Levin on piano forte and Frank Stadler on violin;  and Gabriele Ramsauer shares with us a “Mozart Portrait.”