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Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41
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Artist
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Berlin Philharmonic. Karl Bohm, conductor.
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Label
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Deutsche Grammophon
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Format
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cutout CD
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Runtime/Release Date
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60'57/2001
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Label Number
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289469620
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Daedalus Item Code
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18303
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This item is not available.
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Description
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This recording of Mozart's two final symphonies was one of Performance Today's "PT 50"—the NPR program's list of 50 essential classical CDs, selected by music critic Ted Libbey. Mozart created his last three symphonies as a set, with each one contrasting to the next in character and instrumentation. He wrote all three in less than two months, while producing other works in different forms. He may have intended to introduce them on a visit to London, where he had been celebrated as a child prodigy and had composed his earliest symphonies more than 20 years earlier. Perhaps they were to be a calling card for a position, but alas that was not to be. Scholars are fairly certain, however, that Mozart did hear Salieri conduct Symphony No. 41 ("Jupiter") in Vienna the last year of his life.
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