What was Mozart really like? “Mozart: Shadow and Light” lays no claim to solving the riddle, but it does bring the composer to life – in his thoughts and feelings, his everyday life and his era, as embodied by Viennese actor Florian Teichtmeister, and strictly according to original source material. The narrator is Udo Wachtveitl, while the author, Jörg Handstein, has already retraced the lives of Mahler, Wagner and Verdi in the form of audio-biographies for the BR-Klassik Wissen series. Recordings of Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 18 & 23, played by Argerich and Barenboim, enhance this audio bio.
