The above list is one of my iTunes playlists. It contains primarily the slower adagio movements of some twenty of Mozart's many compostions. Heavenly music.
As I have no doubt mentioned several times before, my love affair with the music of Mozart began at an early age. I was perhaps 3 or 4 years old and seated on the piano bench next to my father. He was playing something by Mozart on his enormous Bösendorfer piano when, in my young mind I made the connection that the movement of his fingers was producing the divine music that I was hearing. It was one of those young 'eureka' moments which has helped to define my entire life.
For me the music of Mozart has served as a direct connection to that 'divine life force', whatever it may be, that characterizes our humanity.
Adagio in E for Violin and Orchestra, K. 261
"The Adagio in E for Violin and Orchestra, K. 261, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1776. It was probably a replacement movement for the original slow movement of his Violin Concerto No. 5 in A. It is believed that Mozart wrote it specifically for the violinist Antonio Brunetti, who complained that the original slow movement was "too artificial." The work is scored for solo violin, two flutes, two horns and strings."
[Free mp3 files of all Mozart's music at: http://www.mozart-archiv.de/ ]
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