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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.
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1 Kyrie

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3 Credo

4 Sanctus

5 Benedictus
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"This was the flip side of the LP on which Karajan’s recording of Haydn’s Symphony No.104 (London) was released, first on RCA and then on Decca Ace of Diamonds. Like the Haydn, which I reviewed in the November 2011/1 Roundup the performance is elegant and poised – a little too ‘controlled’ for some tastes, though I greatly enjoyed hearing both it and the Haydn again. The playing of the VPO can almost be taken for granted and John Culshaw’s recording still sounds well." Brian Wilson at Music Web International
"This superb aria, in rondo form, contains the same wide leaps which the original singer of the part, Ferrarese del Bene, was so easily able to negotiate, and which Joan Cross sings with perfect poise and great skill. It is a joy to hear so clean an attack and such steady tone. The singer is always in the centre of her notes and her phrasing is impeccable. There is, indeed, only room for criticism in regard to her diction and a rather bumpy trill. I am glad to say that the lovely orchestral accompaniment, which contains an obbligato for two horns that almost amounts to a little concerto, is recorded with due regard to its importance." Gramophone March 1947

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"...immaculately stylish...." Alan Sanders in Classical Recordings Quarterly Autum 2011

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"The balance between piano and orchestra, the clean, sensitive style of playing, the actual size of the orchestra, are all so right, so completely Mozartian in proportion that this recording can be held up as a model. All in all, this is one of the most satisfying performances I have heard for some time." Gramophone March 1949

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"Well-shaped, unexaggerated; and the recording not only starts well, but, most unusually, keeps it up right to the end ; the wonderful contrapuntal finale is not allowed to dissolve into a sea of mush, as so often seems to happen.....This is clearly a record for Mozartians. And if—strange thought—you are not yet a Mozartian, what better disc than this with which to begin ?" MM writing in The Gramophone June 1952

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By and large, this recording wins strong commendation - Gramophone September 1928

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Bassoon Concerto K191
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Symphony No 40
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Symphony No 41 Jupiter
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"De Peyer plays the Clarinet Concerto most beautifully. The limpid tone and style will be the more universally winning because they are not associated with a vibrato, except of the most fractional nature and in the places crying out aloud for it ; and the finished technique speaks for itself, if sometimes rather readily--it is possible to feel in some of the more arresting phrases that de Peyer wishes to overtake the orchestra. In fact he doesn't, and Collins has succeeded in ensuring a most satisfactory and stylish ensemble ; though it may be that conductor and soloist found difficulty in agreeing on the elusive right tempo for the Rondo. Everywhere de Peyer adheres strictly to the notes Mozart wrote, or to the notes the early editions, possibly arranged, bequeathed to posterity ; and there are places where a little editing does improve the effect. Add a warm recording, and I have no hesitation whatever in thinking this the best version of the Concerto available." M.M. writing in the Gramophone February 1955

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- Kyrie and gloria
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" A strong, satisfying performance of one of the choicest, most highly individual concertos. It is richly recorded, in fine purity. The recording can be well recommended. Kentner is a good though not (so far as this recording shows) a superlative Mozartean. " Review in the Gramophone September 1940
" Yet another Mozart piano concerto from Denis Matthews, this time the famous A major so notoriously difficult to bring off in a recording, or for that matter in performance. Readers who turn up my reviews of three earlier LP performances (Gieseking in December, Clifford Curzon in April, Liii Kraus in May) will find small content with any of them. This new Matthews disc strikes me as the best version available; but I would welcome it with all the reservations made before in the cases of his K.595, 414 and 49, reviewed this month and last. That is to say the performance is a gentle, grisaille one, without much vitality of rhythm or keenness of attack, a tasteful, delicate performance, neatly executed. Matthews uses Mozarts sketch of a cadenza in the first movement, plays the second as written (i.e. without filling in the gaps, as Liii Kraus did), and is so reticent in the finale that some of the notes in arpeggios which should surely sound brilliant disappear altogether. The orchestral support is tidy, pleasant in tone, rather undervitalised. The recording is agreeable, and in accord with the generally subdued effect." A.P. writing in the Gramophone November 1954

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"It is no doubt an excellent thing to make a recording of Mozart's piece d'occasion, the Post Horn Serenade, so long as listeners realise that it is that, and no more - a charming, rather protracted, graceful work, written for the Archbishop of Salzburg in 1779, for some ceremony or other. Decca.'s sympathetic annotator admits, on the cardboard cover, that performance of the work 'was probably spread out over the evening with intervals between the movements'. I must confess I find the piece rather long to sit down and listen to at a sitting ; and I am convinced such listening was never intended by the composer. This is surely ideal background music -- the music a really cultured court would commission and use as an accompaniment to, say, an investiture like that in early April, where the Guards' band played softly in the gallery. Broadly, it may be said that Maag and Switzerland are more French, expressive, sensitive, alive to moods. Maag goes out for contrasts. There is a general reediness about the string tone, which warms up at times ; softer passages are better reproduced than louder, and give us much pleasant sound, with the right amount of back-echo. The drums are oddly uncertain in pitch, at one point sinking practically a whole tone. Wood-wind is good, in playing and reproduction ; but the post horn itself is produced like a rabbit out of a hat at a children's party, with far too much 'hey presto' and prominence. Maag puts himself out to make the most of Mozart's prettinesses, and has no fear of romanticising them. The Trio in II is pleasing. Both III and IV are treated with a delightful, gay insouciance, Frenchified almost but engaging, and definitely as if the score were marked expressif. This mood, like the one they give to V, suits the Suisse Romande players well. Orchestral balance is good, and the reproduced sound is fairly even as it reaches us, with few crackles and wobbles." H.F. writing in the Gramophone June 1952

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With his ample (not amplified) tones and extended compass, Alexander Kipnis can do effortless justice to all those bass solos we know so well as having been favourites with the operatic audiences of a past era. And they can be favourites still when sung by artists of the Kipnis stamp ; we may be sure of that. HK reviwing in the Gramophone October 1931

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"Everywhere the phrasing is of the most sensitive, allied to a beautiful tone-quality on the part of every instrument of a type ideal for wind ensemble playing. Once or twice there are momentary lapses in unanimity of attack; once or twice the oboes, never sounding definably out of tune, do yet sound slightly unhappy. But in general the high standards familiar from earlier London Baroque Ensemble recordings of these same serenades are maintained, and perhaps in one respect even improved upon : a very slightly easier tempo adopted for the finale of the E flat work does allow a rather greater clarity and point to the whole."Review by MM in the Gramophone February 1959
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