Marriner Neville - Mozart Live 1978 [CD]

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A first-time CD release for a gala concert given by the pre-eminent Mozart interpreters of the late analogue era. \r
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On 27 January 1978 fell the 222nd birthday of Mozart, and the auspicious occasion was marked in Strasbourg, at the Palais de la Musicque et des Congr\xe8s, by an ingeniously planned program which spanned a decade of the composer\u2019s full maturity. Everyone associated with the concert could boast impeccable Mozartian credentials. \r
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Two concert arias \u2013 \u2018Non pi\xf9, tutto ascoltai\u2019 and the sublime \u2018Ch\u2019io mi scordi di te\u2019 \u2013 were sung by Jessye Norman, who at that stage in her illustrious career was still taking on the Mozart soprano roles which had won her acclaim at the Royal Opera. The obbligato soloist in the latter aria was none other than Alfred Brendel, whose credentials as a Mozart pianist need no rehearsal, and he returned in the second half of the concert for the magnificent C major Piano Concerto KV 503 of 1786, which wears the profound good humour of the recently premiered Le nozze di Figaro. \r
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The concert was completed by the Overture to Idomeneo and the Symphony No. 40, KV 550, played by the ensemble which more than any other was associated in the minds of record-collectors, in the UK at least, with the music of Mozart: the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, led with his unfailing sense of style by its founder conductor, Neville Marriner. Producing the concert for a subsequent 2LP release on Philips was Erik Smith, who went on to mastermind the label\u2019s Complete Mozart Edition released in time for the 1991 bicentenary of the composer\u2019s death. \r
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Portions of the event have been released on CD before, but never the entire concert, which makes this newly remastered reissue on Eloquence an essential acquisition for all Mozart lovers, enhanced by original sleeve notes and texts and translations of the arias. \r
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\u2018Jessye Norman sings magnificently, with what appears to be effortless agility and with a particularly beautiful quality in mezza voce, and she is most sympathetically partnered by Hugh Maguire and Alfred Brendel respectively \u2026 A striking performance of the G minor symphony: appropriately taut and nervous in the quick movements, and with an almost chamber-musical intimacy and refinement in the Andante. The performance of the C major Concerto could hardly be bettered.\u2019 Gramophone, November 1978

Idomeneo, Re Di Creta, KV 366: Overture

Concert Aria: \u2018Ch\u2019io Mi Scordi Di Te \u2026 Non Temer, Amato Bene\u2019, KV 505

Concert Aria: \u2018Non Pi\xf9, Tutto Ascoltai \u2026 Non Temer, Amato Bene\u2019, KV 490 (with Hugh Maguire, Violin)

Piano Concerto No. 25 In C Major, KV 503

Symphony No. 40 In G Minor, KV 550