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Maag and Mozart

Peter G. Watchorn | Cambridge, MA USA | 09/17/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is as fine a Mozart release as you're ever likely to find. Coming late in his career, Peter Maag's work with the orchestra of Padua and Venice resulted in a truly great Beethoven symphony cycle as well as four cds devoted to Mozart's later symphonies, all available on the Arts label. Expert direction (highly musical and well-informed historically), a very fine, classically balanced orchestra and excellent digital recording add up to a cd which every Mozart lover should investigate. Peter Maag was one of the more important conductors of his day and he has left us a fine and unexpected legacy of recordings. His Mozart is unbeatable. Hear it for yourself. Strongly recommended."

Maag did it better 35 years ago

D. R. Schryer | 02/27/2002

(2 out of 5 stars)

"This recording isn't bad. But Maag's best outing with the
Prague Symphony was that classic London Blueback from the mid-1960s with the London Symphony. It is still the best Prague I've ever heard, and I wish to GOD someone would re-release it. It's fantastic. This current outing doesn't compare, alas.If you want a great Prague, try Charles Mackerras on Telarc. For stylish, unmannered modern-instrument performance, it's hard to beat. Until that classic Maag recording comes back."

Fine performances by a Mozart expert.

D. R. Schryer | Poquoson, VA United States | 09/05/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Peter Maag has been an outstanding Mozart conductor for four decades. He is quite possibly the finest Mozart conductor living today. The performances on this CD are consistent with Maag's long record of doing full justice to the music of one of music's greatest composers. No recording of these works by a "star" conductor with a big-name orchestra will contain finer performances of these two symphonies."