BaL 14.04.12 Mozart Symphony no 41 "Jupiter"

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I generally admire Beecham's Mozart, though I do take issue with his adverse bites of re-orchestration in the Requiem Mass.

In the Jupiter Symphony, the are two one-bar breaks (bar 80 & 268 of the first movement) in the score. In the EMI stereo version Beecham reduces the 4 beat rest to just half its designated length. But in the earlier CBS/Sony version, he cuts a complete 4/4 bar rest to a single beat.
Impatience?

[vinteuil]

I think the ground-breaking Hogwood/AAM is still available?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I think the ground-breaking Hogwood/AAM is still available?

Yes. There seem to be several "new" options on Amazon, so I'll add it to the list.

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It was there all the time.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A Britten/ECO version is available here:
http://www.musicweb-international.co...ozart39-41.htm

... can't find any Fürtwängler recording, alas.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A Britten/ECO version is available* here:
http://www.musicweb-international.co...ozart39-41.htm

... can't find any Fürtwängler recording, alas.

EDIT: * = Oops! Not "available", just a review of the (deleted?) CD - not exactly overwhelming in its praise, 'tho more critical of the recording than of the performance.

[vinteuil]

It was there all the time.

[Hogwood] - Was it? I couldn't find it in your alphabetically ordered #1...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

[Hogwood] - Was it? I couldn't find it in your alphabetically ordered #1...

You are absolutely right, of course. I scanned Cloughie's list by mistake. Now I really have added it.

[Petrushka]

Really, Martin Cotton has set himself a well-nigh impossible task here. If he has listened to every available version then I'd doubt if he would want to hear it ever again! There are simply too many perfectly good versions out there to make the exercise worthwhile. Perhaps better, as I said regarding a previous BaL, (on the Eroica I think) to tell us which ones to avoid.

For what it's worth I have a great liking for the ECO/Britten. The full clutch of repeats gives the work an epic dimension that it deserves, as does the Mackerras. On a more general level my own recommendations would be, in no particular order, Orchestra Mozart/Abbado, Concertgebouw/Krips and VPO/Bohm (1977 version).
If pushed to choose just one I'd go for Bohm which often manages to find its way into my CD player.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Bernstein with the VPO is my favourite "big band" K551: superbly played and recorded, fleet of foot (perhaps the Minuet a little slow, but the playing is so seductive I'm won over), dynamic, dramatic and energetic and with every repeat observed!

The only HIP performance I have is the Hogwood discussed above, which I've always found a bit uninvolved and "safe": a pity, as it's coupled with a genuinely effervescent K 338. I used to have Kuijken & La Petit Bande on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, but that was a few removal firms ago.

No, I don't envy MC, either, Pet; and I suspect there'll be a few disgruntled comments on this Board appearing after 10:30 next Saturday!

[MickyD]

I think the ground-breaking Hogwood/AAM is still available?

Single disc versions of it can be found, but I notice that Hogwood's complete Mozart symphony set (19 cds) is available for around fifty quid on Amazon. I know it is a bit rough around the edges in places, but I have always loved this cycle - it reminds me of the excitement I felt when hearing these works for the first time on period instruments.