Syms 35-41

• Beethoven Symphonies 1-9 (1963 recordings)
• Beethoven, Piano Concertos 1- 5; Choral Fantasy
• Syms 4/5/6 Pathetique
• Birth Of The Cool
• A Love Supreme

This double-decker comprised of the final six symphonies by Mozart (Symphony No. 37 was lost unfortunately and the original score remains undiscovered) is a MUST-HAVE for a Mozart fan. Bohm truly gives Mozart at its highest. Forget hesitating or regarding the price you should buy it simple as "1-2-3" and play music.

this is one of the finest Jupiter's ever as Well!!

mozart's great genius allows for a natural juxtaposition of tragic utterance with moments of great radiance in the space of a few bars. yet the world does not always concern itself with such depth and any quality of fantasy, wit, happiness, tension or mild despair can be found within these works. mozart's symphonies are a whole world of life - not a linear journey from darkness to light or its discomfiting alternative. they are masterpieces from the surface sheen to their untold depths.

yet as ambiguous as all this sounds, there is always an unequivocal and refreshing ray of light in the music that contrasts with the undertow of tension present in much other great art (be it shakespeare, beethoven, mahler, picasso, hitchcock, ligeti....). in today's world especially, mozart's ouevre seems irreproducible at its most fundamental level.

there are more qualified reviews that will discuss the merits of individual conductors in these pieces. all i can say is that bohm's dg performances embody all of my contrivances (and rid them of their noxiousness) and much more besides. bohm does not inhabit the extremeties of tempo and dynamics that a conductor like harnoncourt straddles. combine this with his liberal approach to repeats (which, i have to say, works especially well in symphony 40) and these symphonies are decidely shorter than would usually be expected. it goes to show that the world need not be subjected to the vast creations of mahler to capture its ineffable essence, it just needs the focused genius of a mozart for its narration.

to finish, mozart's late symphonies, and equally his piano concertos, are the perfect places to begin and end any music collection. they will last the lifetimes they depict.

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