Monday, January 24, 2011

Some Damn Good Mozart



Mozart's 38th Symphony, the "Prague", in which he creates the entire germ of the piece from an aria in The Marriage of Figaro about vendettas and revenge. I defy anybody to listen to this performance and still say that Mozart's music is superficial and lightweight. Nikolaus Harnoncourt has been the director of the Concentus Musikus Wein for 57 years now, and if there is a classical group anywhere in the world that does work as consistently exciting as their's, I have yet to hear them. This is how Mozart is supposed to sound.

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