However, Hogwood does manage to avoid the preciousness that typifies many recorded performances of Mozart's symphonies and his interpretations never sound broad or overinflated.
Whether one hears the result of such diligent scholarship outside of the obvious variance in winds that derive from each score - nine first violins in one orchestra versus eleven in another, for example - is hard to say. Hogwood, as Neal Zaslaw's painstakingly detailed notes relate, has researched the makeup of specific orchestras in each place where these symphonies were composed and attempts to match them as closely as possible. As it is in the later of the two versions, Hogwood posits that this incarnation represents Mozart's own last thoughts on the subject of this most famous of his symphonic works, although it likely won't supplant the familiar first version anytime soon.Īll of the performances are grouped by their chronological relationship to one another and just where Mozart was when each symphony was composed - London, the Netherlands, Salzburg, Italy, back to Salzburg again, Paris, and Vienna. 40, the "Great" G minor, is particularly telling in that it is rewritten without clarinet parts and to some extent rescored. Hogwood also includes alternate scorings of symphonies No. Hogwood's set, however, contains everything of Mozart's symphonic or near-symphonic music - excepting most opera overtures, dances, and divertimenti - as was understood at the time of its release in 1997 it contains 19 discs originally packaged in smaller sets and recorded between 19. Most do not address the Mozart symphonies that are considered doubtful or that fall outside the accepted canon of Numbers 1-41, and few more contain orchestral Mozart works related to his symphonic output but are technically not symphonies. 37 as the better part of it is composed not by Mozart but by Michael Haydn as the result of a backroom trade of compositions between the two old friends. Many "complete" collections of this cycle omit Symphony No. L'Oiseau Lyre's Mozart: The Symphonies, performed by the Academy of Ancient Music under Christopher Hogwood, is the ne plus ultra of Mozart symphony sets.
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