Mozart Claudio Abbado Conducts Mozart CD

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 18. Disc 2 - CD Symphony No. 23 in D Major, K.181 (162B) 19. 1 I. Allegro Spiritoso 20. 2 II. Andantino Grazioso 21. 3 III. Presto Assai 22. Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E-Flat Major, K. 364 (320D) 23. 4 I. Allegro Maestoso 24. 5 II. Andante 25. 6 III. Presto 26. Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K.425 "Linz" 27. 7 I. Adagio - Allegro Spiritoso 28. 8 II. Andante 29. 9 III. Menuetto - Trio 30. 10 IV. Presto 31. Disc 3 - CD Symphony No. 28 in C Major, K. 200 (189K) 32. 1 I. Allegro Spiritoso 33. 2 II. Andante 34. 3 III. Menuetto - Allegretto - Trio 35. 4 IV. Presto 36. Symphony No. 29 in a Major, K. 201 (186A) 37. 5 I. Allegro Moderato 38. 6 II. Andante 39. 7 III. Menuetto - Trio 40. 8 IV. Allegro Con Spirito 41. Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385 "Haffner" 42. 9 I. Allegro Con Spirito 43. 10 II. Andante 44. 11 III. Menuetto - Trio 45. 12 IV. Finale - Presto 46. Disc 4 - CD Symphony No. 31 in D Major, K. 297 (300A) "Paris" 47. 1 I. Allegro Assai 48. 2 II. Andante (Second Version) 49. 3 III. Allegro 50. 4 II. Andante (First Version) 51. 5 Masonic Funeral Music, K. 477 (479A): Adagio 52. Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183 (173DB) 53. 6 I. Allegro Con Brio 54. 7 II. Andante 55. 8 III. Menuetto - Trio 56. 9 IV. Allegro 57. Symphony in D Major, K. 320 "The Posthorn" 58. 10 I. Adagio Maestoso - Allegro Con Spirito 59. 11 II. Andantino 60. 12 III. Presto 61. Disc 5 - CD Great Mass in C minor, K. 427 (417A) 62. 1 I. Kyrie - Andante Moderato 63. 2 II. Gloria - Allegro Vivace 64. 3 II. Gloria - Laudamus Te - Allegro Aperto 65. 4 II. Gloria - Gratias Agimus Tibe - Allegro 66. 5 II. Gloria - Domine - Allegro Moderato 67. 6 II. Gloria - Qui Tollis - Largo 68. 7 II. Gloria - Quoniam - Allegro 69. 8 II. Gloria - Jesu Christe - Adagio 70. 9 III. Credo - Cum Sancto Spiritu 71. 10 III. Credo - Allegro Maestoso 72. 11 III. Credo - Et Incarnatus Est 73. 12 IV. Sanctus 74. 13 V. Benedictus - Allegro Comodo