2021 古典音乐排行倒数计时

听了很感动。估计这些演奏员毕生都在致力于他、她们的技艺，就是因为他们的努力，我们后人才能享受到莫扎特留给我们的这种精神遗产。
过去很多年，如果周末有地方去听一场这样的音乐会，那是多么的艰辛。可是如今，随时坐在家里，电脑接上音箱/高保真耳机，就能把细节听得清清楚楚，这是何等荣幸？
相信台上每一个演奏员都有个人生活的明亮或者灰暗之时/之处，可是当他们坐在演奏厅里的那一刻，奉献给观众的却是最高雅且优美的。

感謝小特分享。 好聽！    

各位週末快樂！

多谢溪姐喜欢、鼓励！

莫扎特音乐永远让人着迷！

Mozart Gala Concert 250 years of the birth of Mozart (2006)

Mitsuko Uchida （内田光子） In a career that has spanned almost 30 years, Mitsuko Uchida (born 1948) has earned her title as one of the greatest classical pianists of the 20th century. She is most readily associated with her ability and recordings of Mozart's piano works and is a sought-after concert pianist worldwide.

Mitsuko Uchida was born in Tokyo, Japan, on December 20, 1948. She was the third child of Fukito Uchida, a diplomat, and Tasuko Uchida, a homemaker. Before Uchida was born her father had served in Europe in the Japanese diplomatic corps during World War II.

Uchida began her piano lessons when she was three years old as part of a traditional Japanese education. She quickly developed a love for classical music, especially Mozart, as she listened to her father's collection of European composers' recordings. She told the Detroit Free Press, "as a small child I remember vividly listening to Mozart again and again." Mozart would prove to be her life's passion at the piano. Although her parents probably never envisioned their daughter becoming one of the most important pianists of her generation, her gift was instantly recognizable from early on. Her father would proudly ask her to play for anyone who would listen. But as she told a group of students at Johns Hopkins once, "My parents wanted me to be an ordinary Japanese housewife. They gave me piano lessons so that I could make them proud… ." Little did they know that she would go on to become one of the great treasures of current classical music and considered one of the best interpreters of Mozart.

Uchida was an inquisitive youth with questions not only about her music but also about life in general. Her curiosity remained unfulfilled while living in Japan. In addition, the Japanese approach to teaching also seemed stifling to Uchida. "There is a tradition in Japanese society that one is not to question," she explained to the New York Times. The customary technique to music education in Japan focused more on the mechanical aspect of training, but Uchida sensed the need for a more interpretive training. Without the background of the Western music tradition, Japanese teachers taught the pure mechanics of the instrument instead of its musicality. She resented the endless rules about notes and formulas because she just wanted to be able to feel and play the music.

At the age of 12, Uchida and her family moved to Vienna, Austria, where her father was a member of the Japanese diplomatic mission. It was in Vienna that Uchida's eagerness for Western music could be satiated. Though the culture was accessible to her, she still did not seem to find what she was searching for musically. While she learned German and began her musical studies in the Viennese school of music under Richard Hauser at the Vienna Academy of Music, she still felt restricted by her instructors. As she related to the New York Times, it was "full of fixed ideas. There are masses of do's and don'ts, and 'music should be played this way.' So I had to get out of that."

几天前晚上8点多一点到厨房里，本来大概就是十分钟左右的事情，我还是习惯性地打开收音机，听到一段很熟悉的音乐、熟悉到它让我马上就想到可能会是谁的（亨德尔、巴赫、贝多芬、莫扎特）作品。通常这对我会是一种折磨，因为我“必须”知道收音机里播放的到底是什么。结果我就在厨房里转来转去找事做，等到快9点时音乐才结束。原来是亨德尔的《弥赛亚》，同我的猜测一样。
每年临近圣诞节的时候，教堂，音乐厅，社区学院里都会有乐团演出“弥赛亚”。油管里有很多很多“弥赛亚”的录像，我下决心来回滚动，终于找到了过去反复听/看过的这个视频。

是收音机，就是为了在厨房里磨蹭时随便听听的。

多謝小特分享好歌好樂！ 祝你同各位聖誕快樂安康！

2021 古典音乐电台听众评选结果倒数计时（正在进行中）

据说纽约城古典音乐电台的听众人数、范围全美第一。近年来通过它的网站收听实况的人数也在不断增加。每年12月开始接受听众的投票，根据选票排出前十名最受欢迎的古典音乐，然后用三天时间连续播出评选结果，最后一个曲子结束在新年钟声里。感觉每年好像是同样一群人在投票，结果大致相同。比如贝多芬第九交响曲总是排名第一，德沃夏克第九交响曲也一直名列前茅。另外每年贝多芬的曲目上榜最多，而美国作曲家如格什温，科普兰也常常挤进前十。而莫扎特一首也没有。

10. Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, "Resurrection"
9. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73, "Emperor"
8. George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
7. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
6. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
5. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
4. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos
3. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92
2. Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, "From the New World"
1. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral"



2020 前十排名

10. Arthur Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore
9. Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232
8. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
7. Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, "Resurrection"
6. Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos
5. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
4. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
3. Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, "From the New World"
2. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92
1. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral"

2019 前十排名

10 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat, Op. 73, "Emperor"
9 Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
8 Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos
7 Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 55 "Eroica"
6 Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
5 Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C, "Resurrection"
4 Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E, "From the New World,"
3 Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C, Op. 67
2 Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92
1 Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral"

2018 前十排名

10 Sullivan: Pirates of Penzance
9 Bach: Brandenburg Concertos
8 Holst: The Planets
7 Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
6 Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”
5 Mahler: Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection”
4 Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
3 Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
2 Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”
1 Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, “Choral”

2017前十排名

10. Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
9. Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp Minor
8. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
7. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, "Resurrection"
6. J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos
5. Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, "From the New World"
4. Holst: The Planets, Op. 32
3. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
2. Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92
1. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral"

貝多芬作品既深邃又細膩，既有古典的影子，又引領浪漫之風。大概因此各種聽眾通吃。

这就解释了为什么贝多芬为什么一直占据榜首的原因！