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THE "JUPITER" SYMPHONY |
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Among all the symphonies of Mozart not one can equal the dignity, loftiness, and skill of the symphony in C, the last from his pen, which by common consent, as it were, has been christened the "Jupiter". At the Konzerthaus Berlin the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra is conducted by Hartumt Haenchen.
On the basis of a critical understanding of early scores and taking note of new musicological findings, the orchestra performs the work on modern instruments, its interpretations being a demonstration in support of the compatibility of historical performance practice and dramatic vitality.
Symphony No. 41 in C Major ("Jupiter") K.551
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote the Symphony No. 41 in C major (K. 551), along with the immediately preceding symphony, No. 40 in G minor (K. 550), in the space of a few weeks in 1788.
Though the title "Jupiter" is not Mozart's - it may have been added by the impresario Johann Peter Salomon in an early arrangement of the work for piano - the symphony carries an Olympian weight to it, marked out immediately by the boldness of the first subject of the first movement. A remarkable characteristic of this symphony is the five-voice fugato (representing the five major themes) at the end of the fourth movement. But there are fugal sections throughout the movement, especially during the interplay between the woodwinds when one of the five themes is first introduced and the g major theme that starts off the 2nd half of the exposition. One can say that the finale represents one of the greatest examples of development in music. It starts with four simple notes and transforms into one of the most complex pieces of music of all-time with an incomparable fugal coda. |
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra
Hartmut Haenchen (conductor) |
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Symphony No. 41 in C Major ("Jupiter") K.551
Allegro vivace
Andante cantabile
Menuetto
Molto allegro |
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32 min |
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ca. 90 min |
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