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Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41; Bassoon Concerto / Immerseel, Gower, Anima Eterna Brugge
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Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41; Bassoon Concerto / Immerseel, Gower, Anima Eterna Brugge

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Composer
MOZART, W.A.
Artist
Anima Eterna Brugge, Gower, Van Immerseel
Format
CD
Label
Alpha
Released
Aug 24, 2018
Catalog #
ALPHA352
UPC
3760014193521

About

During a scant ten weeks in the summer of 1788, Mozart wrote three outstanding symphonies, highly innovative in their complexity and length. He was thirty-two and living in Vienna, a city which had offered him numerous opportunities in the past. Musically, it had provided a platform combining excellent musicians and enthusiastic audiences. In more personal terms, it was the place where he had freed himself from the emotional pressure exerted by his father Leopold and his former employer, the Archbishop of Salzburg. However, Viennese audiences were no longer interested in his masterful modernist compositions. When Mozart composed these, his last three symphonies, he was thought of as a ‘dissonance hunter.’ In this symphonic ‘trilogy,’ Mozart illuminates all aspects of human expression, quite independently of his personal situation. Each work presents a different character. No. 39 in E flat major contains numerous elements reminiscent of chamber music, while no. 40 in G minor makes clear references to opera. No. 41 in C major includes formal elements from Baroque music (overture, concerto, fugue). Its synthesis of sonata form and fugue was, and still is, a tour de force that could only have been written by Mozart.

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REVIEW:

These are exciting, distinctive readings that don't make the music into something that it is not. Tempos, while decidedly brisk, do not seem rushed, even in the slow movements. The sense of excitement thus produced feels real, not artificially forced upon the music. The readings are full of ideas that seem inevitable.

– Fanfare

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 I. Adagio - Allegro 09:36
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Adagio - Allegro
    Duration
    09:36
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Anima Eterna Brugge
    Conductor
    Jos van Immerseel
  3. 2 II. Andante con moto 06:45
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante con moto
    Duration
    06:45
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Anima Eterna Brugge
    Conductor
    Jos van Immerseel
  4. 3 III. Menuetto: Allegretto 03:23
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Menuetto: Allegretto
    Duration
    03:23
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Anima Eterna Brugge
    Conductor
    Jos van Immerseel
  5. 4 IV. Finale: Allegro 05:33
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Finale: Allegro
    Duration
    05:33
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Anima Eterna Brugge
    Conductor
    Jos van Immerseel
  6. 5 I. Molto allegro 06:41
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Molto allegro
    Duration
    06:41
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Anima Eterna Brugge
    Conductor
    Jos van Immerseel
  7. 6 II. Andante 09:52
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    09:52
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Anima Eterna Brugge
    Conductor
    Jos van Immerseel
  8. 7 III. Menuetto: Allegretto 03:23
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Menuetto: Allegretto
    Duration
    03:23
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Anima Eterna Brugge
    Conductor
    Jos van Immerseel
  9. 8 IV. Allegro assai 06:26
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Allegro assai
    Duration
    06:26
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Anima Eterna Brugge
    Conductor
    Jos van Immerseel
  10. Disc 2
  11. 1 I. Allegro vivace 10:34
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro vivace
    Duration
    10:34
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Anima Eterna Brugge
    Conductor
    Jos van Immerseel
  12. 2 II. Andante cantabile 08:29
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante cantabile
    Duration
    08:29
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Anima Eterna Brugge
    Conductor
    Jos van Immerseel
  13. 3 III. Menuetto: Allegretto 03:59
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Menuetto: Allegretto
    Duration
    03:59
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Anima Eterna Brugge
    Conductor
    Jos van Immerseel
  14. 4 IV. Molto Allegro 11:20
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Molto Allegro
    Duration
    11:20
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Anima Eterna Brugge
    Conductor
    Jos van Immerseel
  15. 5 I. Allegro 06:47
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    06:47
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Jane Gower
    Ensemble
    Anima Eterna Brugge
    Conductor
    Jos van Immerseel
  16. 6 II. Andante ma adagio 06:27
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Andante ma adagio
    Duration
    06:27
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Jane Gower
    Ensemble
    Anima Eterna Brugge
    Conductor
    Jos van Immerseel
  17. 7 III. Rondo: Tempo di menuetto 04:18
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Rondo: Tempo di menuetto
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Jane Gower
    Ensemble
    Anima Eterna Brugge
    Conductor
    Jos van Immerseel