Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Eine Kleine Nachtmusik & Gran Partita – Wiener Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwangler (1947/49/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96kHz | Time – 54:25 minutes | 512 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | © EMI Classics
Recorded: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: 1 April 1949, Musikvereinsaal, Vienna, Austria; Gran Partita: 10, 19, 26 November & 3 December 1947, Brahmsaal, Vienna, Austria
On this phenomenal audiophile download, acclaimed conductor, Wilhelm Furtwangler, leads the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra through Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and his Gran Partita. Furtwangler is widely regarded as one of the leading conductors in Europe and one of the greatest symphonic conductors of the 20th century. Essential to Mozart’s staggering body of work, these beloved masterpieces are performed to perfection.
Tracklist:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Serenade No. 13, in G Major, K. 525 “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”
1 I. Allegro 4:21
2 II. Romanze (Andante) 4:45
3 III. Menuetto (Allegretto) 2:12
4 IV. Rondo (Allegro) 2:59
Serenade No. 10, in B-Flat Major, K. 361 “Gran Partita”
5 I. Largo – Molto allegro 6:45
6 II. Menuetto & Trios I & II 5:49
7 III. Adagio 6:25
8 IV. Menuetto (Allegretto) & Trios I & II 3:17
9 V. Romanza (Adagio – Allegretto – Adagio) 5:30
10 VI. Tema (Andante) con variazioni 8:56
11 VII. Finale (Molto allegro) 3:26
Personnel:
Wiener Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor
About the Mastering:
Four engineers at Abbey Road Studios in London have remastered these historic EMI recordings from their original analogue sources for release in pristine hi-def. Between them, Simon Gibson, Ian Jones, Andy Walter and Allan Ramsay have many years of experience remastering archive recordings for EMI and other record labels. The process always starts with finding all of the records and tapes in EMI’s archive in London and comparing different sources and any previous CD reissues. We consult each recording’s job file, which contains notes about the recording made by the engineer and producer. For example, this sometimes explain why there is more than one set of tapes to choose from. All of the tapes are generally in good condition and we play them on our Studer A80 π inch tape machine, after careful calibration of its replay characteristics.
In order to have the best digital remastering tools at our disposal for the remastering, we transfer from analogue to the digital domain at 96 KHz and 24-bit resolution using a Prism ADA-8 converter and capture the audio to our SADiE Digital Audio Workstation.
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