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Mozart Symphonies - SCO & Sir Charles Mackerras - The Week

Charles Mackerras and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra made these sensational studio recordings of Mozart's final four symphonies last year, said Hugh Canning in The Sunday Times, and "we get the best of both the modern- an the period-instrument worlds with the singing flutes, oboes and clarinets and natural trumpets and horns making a magnificent sound in the Jupiter's finale". Mackerras shows that these are symphonies on the grand scale: "I don't know more enthralling accounts of the G minor and Jupiter."

I couldn't agree more, said Andrew Clements in The Guardian. Mackerras's interpretations have a "cumulative" power that leads unerringly towards the finale of the Jupiter symphony and its astonishing contrapuntal mastery. Altogether, "these are the finest versions of Mozart's greatest symphonies to have appeared on disc in years".

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The Week
16 February 2008