Special offer. Mozart: The Last Symphonies
Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe
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...
Special offer. Mozart: The Last Symphonies
Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe
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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...
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Written one after the other in the space of just three months and with unprecedented energy, Mozart’s last three symphonies carry within them the aesthetic ideal of their composer, touched by a grace that is already pre-Romantic, and thus form an exemplary musical testament. The Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, a pioneering collective among period-instrument orchestras, reveals a richness, a modernity, a visionary complexity that prepares the way for the Beethovenian revolution.
The approach of the orchestra founded and conducted by Philippe Herreweghe is to explore in depth the sonority and the motor rhythms of the symphonic writing of a Mozart here at the height of his powers.
To record this Mozart trilogy is a bold undertaking for any musician, and always an extraordinary event for the public!
Contents and tracklist
- Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
- Recorded: 12-15 April 2012
- Recording Venue: Grenoble
- Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
- Recorded: 12-15 April 2012
- Recording Venue: Grenoble
- Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
- Recorded: 12-15 April 2012
- Recording Venue: Grenoble
Awards and reviews
Christmas Issue 2013
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 bring out the music's intricate textures with admirable clarity.
Awards Issue 2013
Herreweghe is literal, obedient to direction...[his] sharp intellect presents the score, positively so in the finale...[But] he shies away from the vital task of probing the innermost composer.
11th August 2013
these are fine, lively performances, and the G minor, No 40, played in the revised (clarinet) version, is outstanding.
27th June 2013
The Orchestre des Champs-Elysées provides the perfect riposte to anyone who believes that period-instrument Mozart has to sound anaemic. Herreweghe's performances don't hold back, either. He drives the music hard, which works well in the G minor Symphony
