Sony Classical is pleased to announce another ten releases in it's increasingly comprehensive series of Classical Masters. These new budget-priced releases contain classic recordings, many of them newly remastered, by some of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. "Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic once again defy the inexorable progress of period performance in exhilarating accounts of Mozart using modern instruments," opined Gramophone. The new reissue of these recordings from the early 1990s includes several favorite symphonies, the Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola, the Masonic Funeral Music, a serenade and divertimento as well as the C minor Mass, of which "Abbado's performance is wide-ranging, delivering most satisfyingly on every aspect of this hugely varied score. He has an impressively unified team at his disposal, with a superb quartet of singers: in fact Bonney and Auger are as well matched as you could reasonably expect to find in the impossibly demanding Domine Deus duet" (Music-Web International).
1 Disc 1 - CD 1 March No. 1 in D Major, K. 335 (320A)
2 Serenade No. 9 in D Major, K. 320 "Posthorn"
3 2 I. Adagio Maestoso - Allegro Con Spirito
4 3 II. Menuetto - Allegretto - Trio
5 4 III. Concertante - Andante Grazioso
6 5 IV. Rondeau - Allegro Ma Non Troppo
7 6 V. Andantino
8 7 VI. Menuetto - Trio I - Trio II
9 8 VII. Finale - Presto
10 9 March No. 2 in D Major, K. 335 (320A)
11 Divertimento No. 11 in D Major, K. 251, "Nannerl Septet"
12 10 I. Molto Allegro
13 11 II. Menuetto - Trio
14 12 III. Andantino
15 13 IV. Menuetto - Tema Con Variazioni
16 14 V. Rondeau - Allegro Assai
17 15 VI. Marcia Alla Francese
- Disc 2 -
1 Disc 2 - CD Symphony No. 23 in D Major, K.181 (162B)
2 1 I. Allegro Spiritoso
3 2 II. Andantino Grazioso
4 3 III. Presto Assai
5 Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E-Flat Major, K. 364 (320D)
6 4 I. Allegro Maestoso
7 5 II. Andante
8 6 III. Presto
9 Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K.425 "Linz"
10 7 I. Adagio - Allegro Spiritoso
11 8 II. Andante
12 9 III. Menuetto - Trio
13 10 IV. Presto
- Disc 3 -
1 Disc 3 - CD Symphony No. 28 in C Major, K. 200 (189K)
2 1 I. Allegro Spiritoso
3 2 II. Andante
4 3 III. Menuetto - Allegretto - Trio
5 4 IV. Presto
6 Symphony No. 29 in a Major, K. 201 (186A)
7 5 I. Allegro Moderato
8 6 II. Andante
9 7 III. Menuetto - Trio
10 8 IV. Allegro Con Spirito
11 Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385 "Haffner"
12 9 I. Allegro Con Spirito
13 10 II. Andante
14 11 III. Menuetto - Trio
15 12 IV. Finale - Presto
- Disc 4 -
1 Disc 4 - CD Symphony No. 31 in D Major, K. 297 (300A) "Paris"
2 1 I. Allegro Assai
3 2 II. Andante (Second Version)
4 3 III. Allegro
5 4 II. Andante (First Version)
6 5 Masonic Funeral Music, K. 477 (479A): Adagio
7 Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183 (173DB)
8 6 I. Allegro Con Brio
9 7 II. Andante
10 8 III. Menuetto - Trio
11 9 IV. Allegro
12 Symphony in D Major, K. 320 "The Posthorn"
13 10 I. Adagio Maestoso - Allegro Con Spirito
14 11 II. Andantino
15 12 III. Presto
- Disc 5 -
1 Disc 5 - CD Great Mass in C minor, K. 427 (417A)
2 1 I. Kyrie - Andante Moderato
3 2 II. Gloria - Allegro Vivace
4 3 II. Gloria - Laudamus Te - Allegro Aperto
5 4 II. Gloria - Gratias Agimus Tibe - Allegro
6 5 II. Gloria - Domine - Allegro Moderato
7 6 II. Gloria - Qui Tollis - Largo
8 7 II. Gloria - Quoniam - Allegro
9 8 II. Gloria - Jesu Christe - Adagio
10 9 III. Credo - Cum Sancto Spiritu
11 10 III. Credo - Allegro Maestoso
12 11 III. Credo - Et Incarnatus Est
13 12 IV. Sanctus
14 13 V. Benedictus - Allegro Comodo
Sony Classical is pleased to announce another ten releases in it's increasingly comprehensive series of Classical Masters. These new budget-priced releases contain classic recordings, many of them newly remastered, by some of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. "Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic once again defy the inexorable progress of period performance in exhilarating accounts of Mozart using modern instruments," opined Gramophone. The new reissue of these recordings from the early 1990s includes several favorite symphonies, the Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola, the Masonic Funeral Music, a serenade and divertimento as well as the C minor Mass, of which "Abbado's performance is wide-ranging, delivering most satisfyingly on every aspect of this hugely varied score. He has an impressively unified team at his disposal, with a superb quartet of singers: in fact Bonney and Auger are as well matched as you could reasonably expect to find in the impossibly demanding Domine Deus duet" (Music-Web International).
