[ Virgin Veritas / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 21 March 2002
Classic recordings now reissued at a special price
Norrington's iconoclastic approach to Mozart's four last, great symphonies challenges preconceptions of these well-loved works in terms not only of speed, but of articulation, balance and dynamics, making them as fresh and startling now as they must have been two centuries ago.
[CD1] 'Very exciting and impressive... two familiar masterpieces sparkle and glow as if new-minted.' Hi-fi News
'Alive, provocative and original, showing all the time the effects of [Norrington's] enquiring musical intellect.' Gramophone
CD1 69:41
Symphony No.38 'Prague'
in D major
Symphony No.40
in G minor
CD2 65:57
Symphony No.39
in E flat major
Symphony No.41 'Jupiter'
in C major