Mackerras conducts Mozart - Symphonies & Requiem | Linn CKD651

Mackerras conducts Mozart - Symphonies & Requiem

Label: Linn

Cat No: CKD651

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 5

Release Date: 13th November 2020

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This is the definitive collection of Charles Mackerras’s Mozart recordings for Linn, with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Comprising nine symphonies plus the Requiem, this box set exemplifies why Mackerras was acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest Mozartians and the SCO is internationally recognised as one of the world’s finest chamber orchestras.

Mackerras’s recording of Mozart’s four late symphonies (nos. 38-41) won multiple awards: the 2009 Classical BRITs Critics’ Award and the 2009 BBC Music Magazine Disc of the Year and Orchestral Awards, whilst his recording of Symphonies nos. 29, 31 (‘Paris’), 32, 35 (‘Haffner’) and 36 (‘Linz’) was named Symphonic Recording of the Year at the 2011 ECHO Klassik Awards.

Completing the collection is Mackerras’s recording of the Mozart Requiem, boasting stellar soloists led by soprano Susan Gritton and mezzo Catherine Wyn-Rogers. The score, prepared by the renowned American academic Robert Levin, aims for a more historically authentic performance of the choral masterpiece. It was named a benchmark recording by BBC Music Magazine amongst other accolades.

This is a wonderful celebration of the SCO’s Conductor Laureate on the tenth anniversary of his death.

Sir Charles Mackerras was Conductor Laureate of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra until his passing in 2010. In a recording career spanning nearly sixty years, Mackerras made numerous Mozart recordings with the SCO including symphonies, operas, piano concertos (eight with Alfred Brendel) and the Mozart Requiem. In 2011 BBC Music Magazine named Mackerras as one of ‘The 20 Greatest Conductors of All Time’. Mackerras received a CBE in 1974 and was knighted in 1979. In 2003 he was made a Companion of Honour.

The SCO is a world-renowned orchestra whose recordings with conductors such as Robin Ticciati, Sir Charles Mackerras and current Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev have resulted in multiple accolades and awards.

“Some of the best Mozart symphony recordings ever.”
 – Classic FM

“These are the finest versions of Mozart’s greatest symphonies to have appeared on disc in years.” – The Guardian

“Mackerras’s performance is as thrilling as one would expect from this great Mozart conductor.” – The Sunday Times

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