Andris Nelsons conducts Mozart & Tchaikovsky

The concert’s torso makes sense on its own terms – a pair of late and tragic symphonies – and so do the cultivated polish of the Gewandhaus players and the fluent phrase-making of their maestro.... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

Release Date: 8th Feb 2019
Catalogue No: ACC10445
Label: Accentus Music

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Andris Nelsons

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique'

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Andris Nelsons

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The festive series of concerts to celebrate the inauguration of Andris Nelsons and the 275th anniversary of the Gewandhausorchester concluded with a riveting performance of two of music history’s great symphonic works. Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 is one of only two that Mozart wrote in a minor key, which only adds to its singular reception in his canon of symphonies. Tchaikovsky was an admirer of Mozart’s music and paired the premiere of his Sixth Symphony, which he himself conducted, with dances from Mozart’s 'Idomeneo'. The 'Pathétique' would become his legacy as Tchaikovsky died only a few days after its premiere.

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August 2019

The concert’s torso makes sense on its own terms – a pair of late and tragic symphonies – and so do the cultivated polish of the Gewandhaus players and the fluent phrase-making of their maestro. A sober, old-world restraint permeates their Mozart, down to the conservative omission of second-half repeats from both slow movement and finale.

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