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

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Release Date
August 24, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MOZART, W.A.
    • PERFORMER
      Anima Eterna Brugge, Gower, Van Immerseel
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 24, 2018
    • UPC
      3760014193521
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA352
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Adagio - Allegro

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Anima Eterna Brugge

      Conductor: Jos van Immerseel

    2. II. Andante con moto

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Anima Eterna Brugge

      Conductor: Jos van Immerseel

    3. III. Menuetto: Allegretto

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Anima Eterna Brugge

      Conductor: Jos van Immerseel

    4. IV. Finale: Allegro

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Anima Eterna Brugge

      Conductor: Jos van Immerseel

    5. I. Molto allegro

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Anima Eterna Brugge

      Conductor: Jos van Immerseel

    6. II. Andante

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Anima Eterna Brugge

      Conductor: Jos van Immerseel

    7. III. Menuetto: Allegretto

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Anima Eterna Brugge

      Conductor: Jos van Immerseel

    8. IV. Allegro assai

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Anima Eterna Brugge

      Conductor: Jos van Immerseel

    9. I. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Anima Eterna Brugge

      Conductor: Jos van Immerseel

    10. II. Andante cantabile

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Anima Eterna Brugge

      Conductor: Jos van Immerseel

    11. III. Menuetto: Allegretto

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Anima Eterna Brugge

      Conductor: Jos van Immerseel

    12. IV. Molto Allegro

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Anima Eterna Brugge

      Conductor: Jos van Immerseel

    13. I. Allegro

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Anima Eterna Brugge

      Performer: Jane Gower

      Conductor: Jos van Immerseel

    14. II. Andante ma adagio

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Anima Eterna Brugge

      Performer: Jane Gower

      Conductor: Jos van Immerseel

    15. III. Rondo: Tempo di menuetto

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Anima Eterna Brugge

      Performer: Jane Gower

      Conductor: Jos van Immerseel


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