Note: this CD released using DSD encoding.
George Szell conducting The Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall.
A compilation of Mozart recordings originally released on the Columbia label in 1950s and 1960s. Like most Mozart symphonies they're rather formulaic but spectacularly melodic. Appropriately, the normally heavy Cleveland Orchestras lightens up a bit for these tracks and Szell opts for brisk tempi.
Tracks:
- Symphony No. 28 in C Major, K. 200
Recorded October 1 & 2, 1965, originally released 1966 - Symphony No. 33 in B-flat Major, K. 319
Recorded October 26, 1962, originally released 1966 - Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. "Haffner"
Recorded January 8, 1960, originally released 1960 - Serenade in G Major, K. 525 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"
Recorded October 7, 1968, originally released 1969 - Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492
Recorded October 25, 1957, originally released 1958
Personal Memory Associated with this CD: Not only have I played a couple of these pieces, I was in the pit orchestra for a whole dang production of The Marriage of Figaro back in '87. Perhaps it was those 3½ hour performances that put me off opera music for good.
In related news, I've attended exactly one opera since 1987, a performance of Richard Strauss’s final opera, Capriccio, at the Metropolitan Opera in January 1998. Mainly to see the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center and hear Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. But that really doesn't have much to do with this CD, so never mind. As you were.
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