Mozart: Youth Symphonies
Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz
The Freiburg players clearly have fun with this music, and their performances, including one or two mini-cadenzas and some imaginative decoration, are enjoyable enough. But in the end there’s...
Mozart: Youth Symphonies
Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz
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The Freiburg players clearly have fun with this music, and their performances, including one or two mini-cadenzas and some imaginative decoration, are enjoyable enough. But in the end there’s...
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It is true that images have the power to keep a trace of the past. Gottfried von der Goltz and the Freiburger Barockorchestra prove with this recording that music too conceals the secret of the
memory deep within. Though rarely played, much less recorded, Mozart’s youth symphonies bear the reminiscence of the child the composer used to be, as well as including the seeds of his future masterpieces.
With this album The Freiburger Barockorchester fulfil the portrait of the brilliant composer, whose influences lie in these symphonies and contredanses, as well as his musical tastes: from the G minor tonality that we hear in the Symphony K. 22 to the aria Non piu andrai that can be heard in the first Contredanse - the music of the young Mozart echoes to the elder.
Conducted by Gottfried von der Goltz, expert of the repertoire, the orchestra offers a genuine performance and interpretation, delivering the last piece of the Mozart puzzle.
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Awards and reviews
March 2020
The Freiburg players clearly have fun with this music, and their performances, including one or two mini-cadenzas and some imaginative decoration, are enjoyable enough. But in the end there’s something metronomic about the music-making.
February 2020
They come around on disc fairly regularly but rarely played with such élan as here. The Freiburgers make the now classic period-instrument set by the Academy of Ancient Music (L’Oiseau-Lyre) sound pale in comparision...When treated with such seriousness of intent, these works reveal the astonishing speed with which Mozart, even before his 10th birthday, was able to absorb prevailing trends and write with style, taste and an unerring ear for effect.
5th January 2020
These performances of Mozart’s first five symphonies, written in London and the Hague between 1764 and 1766, tell of a little boy having huge fun as he explores his powers...Von der Goltz and his Freiburg forces play scintillatingly.
