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Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40 and 41 "Jupiter"; Final Ballet from Idomeneo.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40 and 41 "Jupiter"; Final Ballet from Idomeneo. Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre. Archiv Production B0006506-02.
Anyone wishing to own a recording of Mozart's final two symphonies played on period instruments before a live audience could do worse than Marc Minkowski's performances with the Musicians of the Louvre. As for the hyperbole surrounding the cover-jacket pronouncements, I have my doubts. I quote: "Mozart's late G minor Symphony has rarely had an interpretation so revolutionary." (Suddeutsche Zeitung). And "Two favorite symphonies as you've never heard them before." Well, if by "revolutionary" the writer means "fast," I'd agree. And insofar "as you've never heard them before" goes, I would have to say that's true: I had never heard Minkowski perform them before.
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