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In the Thread: James Levine takes a great assault on Mozart’s symphonies.
Post Subject: Saturday MozartPosted by clarkjohnsen on: 3/3/2009
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Those performances of the last three symphonies were OUTSTANDING! I too had heard (some of) the Friday's and hardly paid attention. For Saturday I put down whatever I was reading and listened.
The BSO has never been much of a Mozart band... not under Munch, not under anyone until now... except for a Jupiter led by Leinsdorf at Tanglewood, back in the Sixties, which featured the finest rendition of the fugal finale ever heard by man or beast. James Levine has brought an operatic sensibility to the proceedings and imbued the orchestra with the requisite senses of drama, comedy and singing line.
I can't think of better recorded performances except maybe Beecham's.
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