The recording aims to recreate the playing style of Mozart's period, including using exact orchestra sizes from first performances, specific seating arrangements, and avoiding 20th-century vibrato.
Performer Biography
Roger Norrington, the conductor, founded the London Classical Players in 1978 to research performance practice on original instruments.
Recording & Production
The concerts had a 'workshop atmosphere' with the audience sitting in a close circle around the players, and each concert had only one rehearsal the evening before.
Performer Biography
The Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR, founded in 1946, merged with the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg in autumn 2016 to form the SWR Symphony Orchestra.
Performer Biography
Roger Norrington was the Chief Conductor of the Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR from 1998 to 2011, shaping its sound by combining historically informed practice with modern orchestral means.
Recording & Production
This album features over 20 Mozart symphonies, recorded in just two weeks at the European Music Festival Stuttgart in September 2006.
Interpretation
For the last four symphonies, the conductor Roger Norrington experimented with a 'double orchestra' of 24 violins and 16 woodwinds, playing piano sections with half the ensemble and forte sections with everyone.
