• 01. Overture to Le nozze di Figaro 04:20
Performed by Bruno Walter
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• 02. Symphony No. 39: I. Adagio - Allegro 08:27
Performed by Bruno Walter
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• 03. Symphony No. 39: II. Andante con moto 08:28
Performed by Bruno Walter
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• 04. Symphony No. 39: III. Menuetto: Trio 03:41
Performed by Bruno Walter
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• 05. Symphony No. 39: IV. Allegro 03:59
Performed by Bruno Walter
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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• Bruno Walter - conductor

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Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata (Trans: The Marriage of Figaro or the Day of Madness), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Although the play by Pierre Beaumarchais was at first banned in Vienna because of its satire of the aristocracy, considered dangerous in the decade before the French revolution, the opera became one of Mozart's most successful works. The overture is especially famous and is often played as a concert piece. The musical material of the overture is not used later in the work, aside from a brief phrase during the Count's aria. The 39th Symphony is the first of a set of three (his last symphonies) that Mozart composed in rapid succession during the summer of 1788. No. 40 was completed 25 July and No. 41 on 10 August. Around the same time, Mozart was writing his piano trios in E and C major, his sonate facile, and a violin sonatina. Mozart biographer Alfred Einstein has suggested that Mozart took Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 26, in the same key, as a model. Around the time Mozart wrote the work, he was preparing to hold a series of "Concerts in the Casino", in a new casino in the Spiegelgasse owned by Philipp Otto. Mozart even sent a pair of tickets for this series to his friend Michael Puchberg. But it seems impossible to determine whether the concert series was held, or was cancelled for lack of interest. Bruno Walter (1876 - 1962) was a German-born conductor and composer. One of the most famous conductors of the 20th century, he was born in Berlin, but moved to several countries between 1933 and 1939, finally settling in the United States in 1939. In 1933, when the Nazis took power, they undertook a systematic process of barring Jews from artistic life. Bruno Walter left for Austria, which became his main center of activity for the next several years, although he was also a frequent guest conductor of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra from 1934 to 1939, and made guest appearances such as in annual concerts with the New York Philharmonic from 1932 to 1936.

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