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post #1 of 9
5/21/11 at 2:45pm
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Hello,

can anyone tell me which Mozart recordings are definitively the best and where to buy them? I'd want it in 24/96.

 

Thanks.

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post #2 of 9
5/21/11 at 2:52pm

Mozart's Requiem conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras is just phenomenal! Get the SACD of the master file from hdtracks.

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post #3 of 9
5/22/11 at 1:15am
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Hi LFF,

that sounds like an excellent recommendation. I'm gonna check that out.

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post #4 of 9
5/22/11 at 2:27am

I find the recording of the requiem with Sir Charles Mackerras excellent too.

 

I would also recommend Mozart Violin Concertos with solist Marianne Thorsen and TrondheimSolistene, available on hdtracks and 2L's website www.2l.no.

 

 

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post #5 of 9
5/22/11 at 9:29am

Well, it's looking like Gidon Kremer's interpretation of the Complete Violin Concertos, recorded live in 2009 (in Salzburg) and just released on Nonesuch, approach a standard for successfully tinging classicism with personality. He was accused of going too far when he undertook the concertos 20 years ago, but he seems to have balanced the new versions nicely. Gorgeous…

 

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post #6 of 9
5/22/11 at 9:53am

Any of the recent Rene Jacobs on Harmonia Mundi. His recent Magic Flute is phenomenal! all in sacd, you can get them on amazon

 

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post #7 of 9
5/22/11 at 12:55pm
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Thanks clabbe, tru blu, and LugBug1.

I appreciate all these recommendations. I will look into buying these.

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post #8 of 9
5/22/11 at 11:57pm
My favorite Mozart recording is Geza Anda's "Elvira Madigan" piano concerti. It's a performance that is burned into my brain cells. Fond of Szell's Eine Kleina Nachtmuzik too.
Edited by bigshot - 5/22/11 at 11:59pm
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post #9 of 9
5/31/11 at 11:45am

I have to thank bigshot for the Geza Anda tip: it had been years since a Mozart recording made me so emotional. Here I am listening for the third time to the Andante of Concerto no 17 with goosebumps in full force redface.gif

 

Since I am here, I'll second LugBug1 recommendation for Jacobs Figaro, my favourite recording of any Mozart opera and one of my "desert island" CDs...

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