Credits:

All Lust Und Frewdt / Various

Description:

Minaj & Ensemble Resonanz Mozart’s Three Great Symphonies! Vivid contrasts! The Ensemble Resonanz, led by Minaj, presents a remarkable new recording of Mozart’s Three Great Symphonies. The ensemble’s performance of C.P.E. Bach (HMM 902331 / KKC 5913), which also includes Kellas’ solo concerto, and Haydn’s Last Seven Words on the Cross (HMM 902633), both of which are sharp and richly resonant, strike at the heart of the works. Here, too, he sticks to a modern instrumental approach and plays these three works, which have already been recorded in vast numbers and are often performed in concert, with a freshness that makes the scales fall from your eyes. The contrasts (chords and passages, intensity and weakness, etc.) in No. 39 are superb. The famous “sprinting” beginning of No. 40, which makes one’s hands sweat, is followed by an unexpected footstep. The tutti in No. 41 is a hear