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Mackerras doesn't short-change us on the tenderness and often painful lyricism… nor is he afraid to relax the tempo as a festive or belligerent motif gives way to a gentler one, with the strings…... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2008,
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BBC Music Magazine
March 2008
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Scottish Chamber Orchestra Sir Charles Mackerras Recorded: 3-9 August 2007 Recording Venue: City Halls, Glasgow, United Kingdom Scottish Chamber Orchestra Sir Charles Mackerras Recorded: 3-9 August 2007 Recording Venue: City Halls, Glasgow, United Kingdom Scottish Chamber Orchestra Sir Charles Mackerras Recorded: 3-9 August 2007 Recording Venue: City Halls, Glasgow, United Kingdom Scottish Chamber Orchestra Sir Charles Mackerras Recorded: 3-9 August 2007 Recording Venue: City Halls, Glasgow, United Kingdom
March 2008
Mackerras doesn't short-change us on the tenderness and often painful lyricism… nor is he afraid to relax the tempo as a festive or belligerent motif gives way to a gentler one, with the strings… ravishing us with their tone.
2010
There is no need to argue the credentials of Sir Charles Mackerras as a Mozart interpreter, so let us just say that this double CD of the composer's last four symphonies contains no surprises – it is every bit as good as you would expect. Like many modern-instrument performances these days it shows the period-orchestra influence in its lean sound, agile dynamic contrasts, sparing string vibrato, rasping brass, sharp-edged timpani and prominent woodwind, though given Mackerras's long revisionist trackrecord it seems an insult to suggest that he would not have arrived at such a sound of his own accord. And in any case his handling of it – joyously supported by the playing of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra – is supremely skilled; rarely will you hear such well judged orchestral balance, such effective marrying of textural transparency and substance. The Jupiter in particular has a wonderful bright grandeur, yet reveals details in the brilliant contrapuntal kaleidoscope of the finale that too often go unheard.
April 2008
…rarely will you hear such well judged orchestral balance, such effective marrying of textural transparency an substance. The Jupiter in particular has a wonderful bright grandeur, yet reveals details in the brilliant contrapuntal kaleidoscope of the finale that too often go unheard.
18th February 2014
The excellent SCO shows a remarkable ability to alternate seamlessly between passages of tenderness and beauty and those of intensity and excitement. Mackerras makes sure you hear everything you need to, with every phrase carefully shaped and intricately balanced...In all, an enthralling and thoroughly recommended release. Even if you own these works already, you won’t have heard them like this before!
Mackerras's performance is as thrilling as one would expect from this great Mozart conductor. Possibly their finest record to date…I don't know more enthralling accounts of the G minor and the Jupiter on disc.
Mozart's last four symphonies…have rarely shone as luminously as in these uplifting accounts.
