Yesterday I found a blog about a new CD with all songs by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Naxos. This CD does also include a recording of the song Die Zufriedenheit with mandolin accompaniment. The mandolin part is played by Ariane Lorch:
Die Zufriedenheit: Was frag ich viel nach Geld und Gut, KV 349**
The blog does also include a player to play this Mozart song at the end! Here is the link to this blog (German):
http://kammermusikkammer.blogspot.com/2010/01/mozart-alle-lieder.html
Ariane Zernecke-Lorch is a German mandolin player and teacher. She has published a mandolin method (Mein erstes Mandolinenbuch) for children and other music. She is teaching for the mandolin orchestra in Wickenrode where she has established a system to teach children of very young age. All the children start playing with the orchestra after short time. Special mandolins for children and special strings have also been developped.
The following video shows Ariane Lorch conducting the youth mandolin orchestra of Wickenrode at the music fest of the BDZ (plucked strings association) of Hessen in 2009:
Jugendorchester Wickenrode – Auszug aus “10 leichte Stücke”
Aufnahme vom Jugendorchester Wickenrode anlässlich des Landesmusikfestes vom BDZ Hessen 2009. Leitung Ariane Zernecke-Lorch
Here is another video of the same group:
Jugendorchester Wickenrode – Conjuration
In the following video two players from Wickenrode who won a price in the German contest for young instrumentalists “Jugend Musiziert” play the beginning of the Andante con Variazioni by Ludwig van Beethoven in a version for mandolin and guitar:
Jugend musiziert Preisträger von dem MO Wickenrode
Other Resources:
Ariane Lorch at Naxos: http://www.naxos.com/artistinfo/Ariane_Lorch/65716.htm
Homepage Ariane Zernecke-Lorch: http://www.duo-lorch.com/ und http://www.duo-lorch.com/duolorch.html
Homepage of the Mandolinen- und Gitarrenverein 1923 Wickenrode: http://217.160.126.14/mandoline/content/
Youtube channel with more mandolin orchestra videos from the musicfest in Hessen 2009: http://www.youtube.com/user/60erklaus