Mozart - Symphony No. 39 in E flat major, K543
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Orchestral » Symphonies
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George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra: The Forgotten Recordings
Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell
Szell later re-recorded almost all the repertoire, but it’s fascinating to hear the partnership when their much-vaunted precision was well in progress, if not immaculate...Best of all are Schumann’s... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, Historical Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Historical
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These performances come from the first ever complete set of Mozart symphonies (reviewed above), and they still represent 'big orchestra' Mozart at its most congenial. The contrast between Böhm's... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2002, Mid-Price Choice
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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…... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2008, Orchestral Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Disc of the Year & Orchestral Award Winner
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Building a Library, February 2020, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Herbert Blomstedt
[Blomstedt] must be the oldest conductor still at work with some of the world’s major orchestras, but there’s nothing old-fashioned about these warm and heartfelt performances of Mozart ’s last... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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These are generally no-nonsense accounts, with brisk tempos of a kind favoured these days in period-instrument performances...these are impressive, if somewhat unyielding performances, and they... — More…
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His background as a violinist and proponent of historically informed performance comes through in his conducting, and the start of the Prague Symphony, even though played on modern instruments,... — More…
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They certainly play with precision and verve, with a nod towards period practice in their approach to Mozart, but also with an implication that ‘Mozart’s music must be completely alive and continue... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2018
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Historical
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Surprisingly crisp and spry these readings may be, but the result sounds and feels authentically Mozartian, Jacobs coaxing alert and alive playing from a band on the very top of their form. — More…
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Building a Library, February 2020, Recommended Recording
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Those who consider Mozart’s meticulous phrasing is best characterised with the subtlest, tiniest inflections of articulation and tempo might find Riccardo Minasi’s occasional gentle pull on... — More…
