Duration
20 Min
Harnoncourt conducts Mozart: Symphony No. 31 "Paris"
Concert
Wiener Philharmoniker
Production Date: 10/22/1983
20 Min
When the young Mozart arrived in Paris, he was out to impress – and he reacted with delight when an audience of connoisseurs applauded his "Paris" symphony almost as soon as it began. Two centuries later, in Vienna's Musikverein, Nikolaus Harnoncourt captures that same sense of daring in this performance with the Wiener Philharmoniker. As a pioneering scholar of 18th-century performance practice, Harnoncourt saw Mozart's music as "dramatic, dynamic, often directly and highly emotional", and combined with the golden sound and effortless phrasing of this great Viennese orchestra, this is Mozart playing of unrivalled authority, freshness and style.
- Ensemble:
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Conductor:
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
