Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Mozart: Symphonies No. 38 "Prague" & No. 39 (1986)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 255 Mb | Total time: 59:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI | # CDC 7 47334 2 | Recorded: 1985
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 255 Mb | Total time: 59:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI | # CDC 7 47334 2 | Recorded: 1985
These distinguished, if not perfect, recordings made in 1984. They should be amongst everyone’s preferred renditions. They are brisk but not tense, dramatic and even playful when need be. Occasionally, but only at rare moments, such as the beginning of the “Prague” Symphony, I would like something a little fiercer. Mostly Marriner is right on, as in the transition between the darkish introduction to the first movement of the Symphony No. 39 and its exuberant main theme.