Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41 'Jupiter'

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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 the... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 28th Feb 2020
Catalogue No: HMM90262930
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E flat major, K543

Work length31:07

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Ensemble Resonanz
Riccardo Minasi

I. Adagio. Allegro

Track length10:14

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II. Andante con moto

Track length8:07

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III. Menuetto Allegretto. Trio

Track length4:39

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IV. Finale Allegro

Track length8:07

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Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550

Work length35:33

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Ensemble Resonanz
Riccardo Minasi

I. Molto allegro

Track length7:15

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II. Andante

Track length15:14

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III. Menuetto Allegretto

Track length4:20

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$1.45

VI. Allegro assai

Track length8:44

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Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter'

Work length39:38

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Ensemble Resonanz
Riccardo Minasi

I. Allegro vivace

Track length11:40

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II. Andante cantabile

Track length10:27

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III. Menuetto Allegretto. Trio

Track length5:47

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IV. Molto allegro

Track length11:44

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$2.05

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After the widespread acclaim for their previous recordings of C.P.E. Bach and Haydn, the musicians of the Resonanz Ensemble of Hamburg pursue their explorations on instruments with a ‘modern’ set-up.

Here they tackle Mozart’s last three symphonies which, it is generally agreed, “require no introduction.” And yet Riccardo Minasi does much more than introduce them: he reintroduces them to us.

The rhetorical, if not theatrical, dimension of the celebrated trilogy comes into full focus here and the result is irresistible.

Reviews

June 2020

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 the reins too much of a good thing…Finest of all is a performance of the Jupiter that in the outer movements clarifies textures and points phrases in a way that is truly exhilarating.

May 2020

From the splenetically tumbling scales and omninously pounding timpani of the not-so-slow introduction, [Minasi] and his expert 35-strong band (modern instruments, period ethos) play up the music’s disruptive aspects for all their worth. With lean, vibrato-light strings and assertive wind and brass, tutti textures have an abrasive clarity.

8th March 2020

This period-instrument orchestra’s playing is so vivid, and Minasi’s conducting so full of life, that it might seem churlish to insist on the faults: the irritatingly self-conscious slowings-up, even in a movement as driven as No 40’s molto allegro, or the same work’s self-defeatingly fast minuet. But a thrilling “Jupiter” finale makes amends.

Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41 'Jupiter'

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