Mozart - Claudio Abbado Conducts Mozart (CD)

Details: Sony Classical is pleased to announce another ten releases in it's increasingly comprehensive series of Classical Masters. These new budget-priced releases contain classic recordings, many of them newly remastered, by some of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. "Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic once again defy the inexorable progress of period performance in exhilarating accounts of Mozart using modern instruments," opined Gramophone. The new reissue of these recordings from the early 1990s includes several favorite symphonies, the Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola, the Masonic Funeral Music, a serenade and divertimento as well as the C minor Mass, of which "Abbado's performance is wide-ranging, delivering most satisfyingly on every aspect of this hugely varied score. He has an impressively unified team at his disposal, with a superb quartet of singers: in fact Bonney and Auger are as well matched as you could reasonably expect to find in the impossibly demanding Domine Deus duet" (Music-Web International).

Tracklist:

1. Disc 1 - CD 1 March No. 1 in D Major K. 335 (320A)
2. Serenade No. 9 in D Major K. 320 "Posthorn"
3. 2 I. Adagio Maestoso - Allegro Con Spirito
4. 3 II. Menuetto - Allegretto - Trio
5. 4 III. Concertante - Andante Grazioso
6. 5 IV. Rondeau - Allegro Ma Non Troppo
7. 6 V. Andantino
8. 7 VI. Menuetto - Trio I - Trio II
9. 8 VII. Finale - Presto
10. 9 March No. 2 in D Major K. 335 (320A)
11. Divertimento No. 11 in D Major K. 251 "Nannerl Septet"
12. 10 I. Molto Allegro
13. 11 II. Menuetto - Trio
14. 12 III. Andantino
15. 13 IV. Menuetto - Tema Con Variazioni
16. 14 V. Rondeau - Allegro Assai
17. 15 VI. Marcia Alla Francese
18. Disc 2 - CD Symphony No. 23 in D Major K.181 (162B)
19. 1 I. Allegro Spiritoso
20. 2 II. Andantino Grazioso
21. 3 III. Presto Assai
22. Sinfonia Concertante for Violin Viola and Orchestra in E-Flat Major K. 364 (320D)
23. 4 I. Allegro Maestoso
24. 5 II. Andante
25. 6 III. Presto
26. Symphony No. 36 in C Major K.425 "Linz"
27. 7 I. Adagio - Allegro Spiritoso
28. 8 II. Andante
29. 9 III. Menuetto - Trio
30. 10 IV. Presto
31. Disc 3 - CD Symphony No. 28 in C Major K. 200 (189K)
32. 1 I. Allegro Spiritoso
33. 2 II. Andante
34. 3 III. Menuetto - Allegretto - Trio
35. 4 IV. Presto
36. Symphony No. 29 in a Major K. 201 (186A)
37. 5 I. Allegro Moderato
38. 6 II. Andante
39. 7 III. Menuetto - Trio
40. 8 IV. Allegro Con Spirito
41. Symphony No. 35 in D Major K. 385 "Haffner"
42. 9 I. Allegro Con Spirito
43. 10 II. Andante
44. 11 III. Menuetto - Trio
45. 12 IV. Finale - Presto
46. Disc 4 - CD Symphony No. 31 in D Major K. 297 (300A) "Paris"
47. 1 I. Allegro Assai
48. 2 II. Andante (Second Version)
49. 3 III. Allegro
50. 4 II. Andante (First Version)
51. 5 Masonic Funeral Music K. 477 (479A): Adagio
52. Symphony No. 25 in G minor K. 183 (173DB)
53. 6 I. Allegro Con Brio
54. 7 II. Andante
55. 8 III. Menuetto - Trio
56. 9 IV. Allegro
57. Symphony in D Major K. 320 "The Posthorn"
58. 10 I. Adagio Maestoso - Allegro Con Spirito
59. 11 II. Andantino
60. 12 III. Presto
61. Disc 5 - CD Great Mass in C minor K. 427 (417A)
62. 1 I. Kyrie - Andante Moderato
63. 2 II. Gloria - Allegro Vivace
64. 3 II. Gloria - Laudamus Te - Allegro Aperto
65. 4 II. Gloria - Gratias Agimus Tibe - Allegro
66. 5 II. Gloria - Domine - Allegro Moderato
67. 6 II. Gloria - Qui Tollis - Largo
68. 7 II. Gloria - Quoniam - Allegro
69. 8 II. Gloria - Jesu Christe - Adagio
70. 9 III. Credo - Cum Sancto Spiritu
71. 10 III. Credo - Allegro Maestoso
72. 11 III. Credo - Et Incarnatus Est
73. 12 IV. Sanctus
74. 13 V. Benedictus - Allegro Comodo