Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!wjh12!foxvax1!brunix!jss From: jss@brunix.UUCP (Judith Schrier) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Recommendation Message-ID: <12237@brunix.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 13:50:33 EST Article-I.D.: brunix.12237 Posted: Thu Feb 21 13:50:33 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Mar-85 07:41:30 EST Lines: 20 The following is posted for Ted Flinn: --------- >I highly recommend the recordings of the Mozart Symphonies by >the Academy of Ancient Music under the direction of Christopher >Hogwood and Jaap Schroeder. The Academy plays on period >instruments from which they coax the most delightfully >transparent, yet very colorful, sound. I've only heard one of these - the Linz - and found the performance ham-fisted, perfunctory, and repulsive; almost as bad as the Karajan recordings of this symphony. Another case where the pre-war Walter recording is still the top choice. --------- Edward A Flinn Wed, 20 Feb 85 15:05:10 EST