Mozart: Symphony No. 25 / Pinnock · Berliner Philharmoniker

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K.183 / Trevor Pinnock, conductor · Berliner Philharmoniker / Recorded at the Berlin Philharmonie, 10 October 2008.

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[virtuosomusician]

What is the name of the concertmaster?

[BerlinPhil]

It is Guy Braunstein, 1st Konzertmeister of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 2000.

[trr321321]

I like the little expression on the first horn player's face at 1:48.

[NiniClarineta]

Is this originally written for Four French-Horns??? A little weird for the standards of Mozart's Time...

But still a great performance. Berlin Philharmonic can do everything!!! From most pompous Classic to most exotic Contemporary.... Great!

Greetings from Brazil

[juntsk66]

I love it.

[ccanaves]

That oboe is delightful.

[ihikesocal]

Shut up gal! 2:22

[Basketball677]

A bunch of 30-40-Maybe 50 year olds playing a song that was made when he was only 17.

[mrorsini123]

"Queit girl. Mozart is no joke" at: 2:20

Pinnock is amazing...

[Bach1Beethoven]

@TheCrazyCello No, he wasn't. But my point is, when some musician (not Mozart himself) played Mozart's works even in their time, they took liberties. This liberties are, also, taken by our time musicians, like Mr. Pinnock. Yes, Mozart conducted from the harpsichord (or fortepiano), but the scores don't tell us nothing about this, so we cannot know exactly how he played his works. So, I think adding a harpsichord here may be regarded as liberty Mr. Pinnock took, although historically justifiable.

[TheCrazyCello]

@Bach1Beethoven What you said was "Mozart didn't prescribed a harpsichord, but it was not uncommon in his time for the conductor to take some liberties in the performance." I'm saying that, it wouldn't be taking liberties to use harpsichord continuo at all. In fact we know that Mozart himself often conducted from the Harpsichord - was he therefore taking liberties with himself?

[Bach1Beethoven]

@TheCrazyCello My point is the continuo is, even when not written, optional, as well as the instruments used for it, since, in this time, the "boss" is the interpreter, and the composer just a "employee", working for the interpreter's talent to shine. This situation changed in the nineteenth century, with composers like Berlioz and Wagner, who became "musical dictators": the only interpreter's function is to express the composer's musical ideas in sounds as faithfully as possible.

[TheCrazyCello]

@Bach1Beethoven Considering pieces as late as Mendelssohn's string symphonies have figured bass, there's much evidence to suggest that keyboard continuo was used until at least the early 19th century. Considering the only piano available when this symphony was written in 1773 was the square piano - with limited technical capability and by no means loud enough to stand up to 4 or 5 instruments let alone an orchestra, harpsichord is really the only logical choice for a keyboard continuo instrument

[TheCrazyCello]

@NiniClarineta It was actually written before the French Horn was invented, it was written with 4 Natural Horn parts. Natural horns had only a limited number of notes they could play. He wrote for two horns in Bb and two in G, allowing the horns to play a tonic minor chord and also participate in harmony in both the tonic and the relative major. It was actually fairly common practice to do this especially in minor key works. Vanhal did frequently and Michael Haydn used horns in 3 different keys.