With the whole of his output set to be broadcast on Radio 3 in 2011, it is clear that the Mozartian moment has come
The waiting is almost over. Today we shall learn which of 10 pieces of music by Mozart has been voted the nation's favourite in a poll of Radio 3 listeners which closed yesterday. If a similar exercise in Australia a few years ago is a good guide ? and six of the same works made it to both nations' Mozart top 10s ? the winner is likely to be either the Clarinet Concerto K622 or the Ave Verum Corpus motet K618, though canny Mozartian punters will know that the composer's Requiem K626 and the trio Soave sia il vento from his opera Cosi fan tutte are likely to be up there too. To choose from among such riches is, of course, invidious; everyone will have their own preferences. For some of us, it is a mystery how Radio 3's shortlist managed to avoid the final forgiveness scene from the Marriage of Figaro or the quintet from Idomeneo, while earlier generations (and, even today, perhaps a different audience from Radio 3's) would surely have been astounded at the absence from the top 10 of a single Mozart symphony or overture. Editorial endorsements in tight electoral contests are always unenviable and delicate judgments, but the case for the Adagio from Mozart's B-flat wind serenade K361, unforgettably described as "the voice of God" by the envious Salieri in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, is particularly hard to resist in this one. In any event, with the whole of his output scheduled to be broadcast on Radio 3 in the first 12 days of 2011, it is at least beyond argument that the Mozartian moment has come.
Thandie Newton Liz Phair Aaliyah Katherine Heigl Lorri Bagley
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