Mozart - Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 | Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle

Culture and Congress Center Lucerne, 2013
Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker take on a myth with their complete performance of the last three symphonies by Mozart. To this day, we still don’t know for what occasion they were written, when they were first performed, or even whether the composer himself ever heard them. For the Romantics, these three scores represented Mozart’s legacy to posterity – but for Rattle they signify an interpretive challenge of the first order: “Here human emotions are pushed to the absolute extreme,” he explains. “You have the feeling that you’re conducting three very concentrated operas in the same evening.” Mozart’s music for him is incomparable: “It is deeply emotional and passionate and dark and dangerous and cheerful like no other music that has ever been written. If you approach it with caution, you really have a problem. Everything in this music is so natural that you have to forget the rules.”

▷ 00:29 I. Allegro Vivace
▷ 12:21 II. Andante Cantabile
▷ 20:10 III. Menuetto. Allegretto - Trio
▷ 24:50 IV. Finale. Molto Allegro

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Music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle - Conductor