BaL 24.10.15 - Mozart: Symphony no. 36 in C K.425 "Linz"

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

For your list, there's also Jochum's later recording with the Bamberg SO and Mackerras's first with the LPO (CfP)

I'm not sure whether either of these is generally available.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I don't really need any more recordings of this, but I shall be listening with interest - such a fine work.

[verismissimo]

... Walter seeming sleepy.

Brahms in breeches, according to Richard Wigmore!

[DracoM]

Slightly off-message, but isn't it weird when you know that CD Review is ALL pre-recorded? All carefully scripted, no fudges, no fluffs, no spontaneity.

Wigmore's Linz Trip OK. Mckerras for me.

[verismissimo]

Mackerras with the SCO it is.

[BBMmk2]

Mackerras with the SCO it is.

I have already! :) I have, also Abbado/Orchestra Mozart, the reduced sized Berliners, I was wondering?

[mikealdren]

Slightly off-message, but isn't it weird when you know that CD Review is ALL pre-recorded? All carefully scripted, no fudges, no fluffs, no spontaneity.

It's much better than the unscripted (or are they?) discussions between AMcG and ANother reviewer.

[silvestrione]

Not much interest here I see. Must admit, listening in the afternoon, I nodded off!
Hardly surprising. Fairly ordinary Mozart (i.e. marvellous symphony) but not a major work. Are we not due one of the last four by now?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Fairly ordinary Mozart (i.e. marvellous symphony) but not a major work. Are we not due one of the last four by now?

Can't agree about it not being a major work.

Also no. 41 was a BaL work not so long ago (April 2012)

[Alison]

Surprisingly little interest. Or was it axiomatic that Mackerras would win as per my message #2?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Can't agree about it not being a major work.

(and not just because of the key, either.)

As usual, good stuff from Richard Wigmore - I don't feel any great urgency to add the chosen one to my shopping basket, but I'm contemplating the Klemperer box: I identified it before he revealed the answer - many moons ago (before the Judge told me to stop) I used to have the LP boxed set of OK's Mozart orchestral works. I've often felt that he was a much finer conductor of Mozart than of Beethoven.

And wasn't Busch a superb Musician!

[visualnickmos]

Not much interest here I see. Must admit, listening in the afternoon, I nodded off!
Hardly surprising. Fairly ordinary Mozart (i.e. marvellous symphony) but not a major work. Are we not due one of the last four by now?

What exactly constitutes a 'major work?'

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Brahms in breeches, according to Richard Wigmore!

Yes - but this comment only "works" if Brahms is played badly! And didn't RW say that the actual recorded performance of the Siciliano was fleeter of foot than the rehearsal sequence that we overheard? I think it was of these rehearsal out-takes that Stravinsky complained that Walter kept urging his players to "sing" the phrases more, whereas it might have been better had he given them equal encouragement to dance.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

What exactly constitutes a 'major work?'

Well, K425 for one!

[visualnickmos]

Well, K425 for one!

Agreed!

But maybe I should be more accurate in my question; what are the criteria on which a work is judged to be a 'major work?'