Symphony no. 38 'Prague' / Symphony no. 41 'Jupiter'

"As you might expect from René Jacobs's conducting of Mozart operas, these performances have a briskness and sense of elan that is always alert to every one of the music's expressive twists and turns. The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra needs no encouragement to play with energy and enthusiasm, and its range of colour and tonal refinement is superb."
GUARDIAN.CO.UK

"It is no surprise that René Jacobs, who has been producing a masterly and insightful series of recordings of Mozart operas for Harmonia Mundi France, goes right to the dramatic heart of the "Prague” Symphony and, for that matter, of the "Jupiter,” No. 41. His performance is wiry and mercurial — theatrical..."
James Oestreich
THE NEW YORK TIMES

Conducting the musicians of the Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs offers us a chance to rediscover two symphonies whose 'classic' status is such that we thought we knew everything there was to know about them! The guiding principle of this interpretation is clarity of texture, with the aim of bringing out the most powerful element in this music: its sense of drama. It forsakes the 19th-century symphonic tradition for a quite different style of rhetoric.