Mozart: Symphonies Nos 39 & 40 | CD Review

Freiburg Baroque O/Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi)Though the later performances in his cycle of the operas have had their contentious aspects, René Jacobs's credentials as a Mozart interpreter are impeccable, and his recordings of the Prague and Jupiter Symphonies issued last year were widely admired. The new accounts of the E flat and G minor symphonies are refreshingly fresh of mannerisms, with only a few details that might raise purist hackles. The tempi are generally on the fast side, but it is...

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