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These are, in the main, finely-judged performances, and there are certain moments, such as the snarling crescendo on all four horns that catapults the recapitulation in the opening movement of... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 12th Jan 2009
Catalogue No: 2348682
Label: Erato
Length: 50 minutes

Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K183

Work length21:23

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Le Cercle de l’Harmonie
Jérémie Rhorer
Recorded: 2008-05-25
Recording Venue: 25-29 May, 2008. Ferme de Villefavard en Limousin, France

I. Allegro con brio

Track length7:20

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II Andante

Track length6:24

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III Menuetto & Trio

Track length2:46

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IV Allegro

Track length4:53

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Mozart: Symphony No. 26 in E flat major, K184

Work length8:22

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Le Cercle de l’Harmonie
Jérémie Rhorer
Recorded: 2008-05-25
Recording Venue: 25-29 May, 2008. Ferme de Villefavard en Limousin, France

Molto presto

Track length2:24

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Andante

Track length3:41

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Allegro

Track length2:17

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Mozart: Symphony No. 29 in A major, K201

Work length20:45

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Le Cercle de l’Harmonie
Jérémie Rhorer
Recorded: 2008-05-25
Recording Venue: 25-29 May, 2008. Ferme de Villefavard en Limousin, France

I. Allegro moderato

Track length7:09

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II. Andante

Track length6:02

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III. Menuetto

Track length3:10

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IV. Allegro con spirito

Track length4:24

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Inspired by his recent stay in Italy, and back at the court of the Archbishop of Salzburg, the 17-year-old Mozart composed five symphonies in 1773-74; Nos 25, 26 and 29 were among them. These inventive, finely proportioned works achieve a fusion between the light, three-movement sinfonia, or Italian overture, and the German symphony – denser, usually in four movements, and including a minuet.

French conductor Jérémie Rohrer, born in Paris in 1973, worked with Marc Minkowski, William Christie and Christopher Hogwood before founding Le Cercle de l’Harmonie in April 2005 with the violinist Julien Chavin and a number of close colleagues. The group focuses on orchestral and operatic repertoire of the late 18th century and has collaborated with dazzling German soprano Diana Damrau on two Virgin Classics releases: Arie de bravura by Mozart, Salieri and Righini, which (following the highest praise in Gramophone, Opera News, Diapason, Télérama, Opéra International, Classica Repertoire, and a Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik) has sold 25,000 copies around the world, and the recently released all-Mozart album Donna.

The first of these two releases prompted the German magazine Das Opernglas to praise conductor and orchestra with these words: “The orchestra makes the most of all the moods in these scores, bringing power and succulence, but also an exceptional sense for nuance,” while the French newspaper Libération said: “It is ages since we heard Mozart’s harmony exalted to such mouthwatering effect.”

“Gathered around Jérémie Rhorer, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie offers a sumptuous Mozartian feast. Impeccably executed, with incisive energy in the chords, polyphonic clarity, beauty of tone: everything is delectable … Long live this circle of harmony!” Diapason

“For Jérémie Rhorer and his partners, it is a case of fidelity rewarded. Fidelity to their idea of musical purity, of artistic distinction – a Mozartian ideal, in fact.” Télérama

“Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, with each musician playing as if his or her life depended on it.” Altamusica

Reviews

September 2009

These are, in the main, finely-judged performances, and there are certain moments, such as the snarling crescendo on all four horns that catapults the recapitulation in the opening movement of the turbulent Symphony No. 25, that sound particularly effective.

April 2009

…there is a lot of controlled energy in these performances, immediately apparent in the first movement of Symphony No 25, which is driven but not forced, effectively opposing vigorously scrubbed violins and urgently pressed horn-blasts with a touchingly plaintive solo oboe in its second theme. ...plenty of neat and imaginative articulation and phrasing reach their collective zenith in the richly unfolding delights of the slow movement of No 29.

15th March 2009

However well you know these symphonies, the zest, detail and exuberance of these performances will blow your head off. Mozart was 17, fired up by months in Italy, when he went to work at the archbishop's court in Salzburg. These symphonies, here recorded in a converted Limousin barn, date from that period. Young French conductor Jérémie Rhorer, and the agile period instrument band Le Cercle de l'Harmonie take risks but not liberties. Speeds are break-neck, colours brilliant.

Mozart - Symphonies Nos. 25, 26 & 29

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