1.第一卷是交响曲(11CD)。和伯姆的柏林爱乐乐团版(DG,46首)和霍格伍德的古代音乐学院版(Decca,47首)相比,略去了莫扎特少年时代的一部分作品,共计41部,而《g小调第40交响曲》却收了2个版本,分别是加入单簧管编制的第二版和没有单簧管的原始版。演奏者是荷兰指挥家贾普·特·林登(Jaap ter Linden)和阿姆斯特丹莫扎特学院乐团,录制于2002年。和哈农库尔特一样,林登也是从大提琴手转为指挥,曾经和另一位著名的古乐权威考普曼(Ton Koopman)一起创立室内音乐演奏组(Musica da Camera),他也是大名鼎鼎的科隆古乐团(Musica Antiqua Koln )的成员;阿姆斯特丹莫扎特学院乐团是林登自创的,属于小编制的仿古乐团。笔者下意识地认为这样的乐团擅长演奏莫扎特中早期的交响曲(第25号以前),但令笔者吃惊的是他们在演奏《布拉格交响曲》乃至《朱比特交响曲》时依然保有较强的张力和应有的气势,当然和伯姆或克里普斯指挥的现代乐团相比,使用羊肠线乐器的古乐团在乐句衔接处有时会有“架空”的感觉(加德纳和哈农库尔特采用编制较大的古乐团以避免这种现象),但贾普对动态的良好控制以及很多段落舞蹈化的节奏处理,使得这卷全集依然具有说服力。录音并没有过多的加以修饰,平平实实,颇适合古乐器演奏的氛围。
9.规模最大的第九卷(歌剧,44CD)可以说是这套莫扎特全集中水准最高,阵容最强大的一卷。其中四部最著名的歌剧《唐璜》、《女人心》、《费加罗的婚礼》和《魔笛》,前三部均由古乐专家西吉斯瓦尔德·奎肯(Sigiswald Kuijken)指挥他的小乐队(La Petite Bande)现场录制,由比利时品牌Accent授权;《魔笛》则请来Telarc的马克拉斯指挥苏格兰室内乐团版,有巴巴拉·亨德里克丝、托马斯·阿伦等名角主演,同一组合录制的《后宫诱逃》也在这一卷之列。《伊多梅纽奥》选用了汉斯·施密特-伊瑟施塔德1972年的EMI录音室版本,可以听到尼古拉·盖达和彼得·施莱埃尔黄金年代的歌喉;早中期歌剧中指挥家堪贝林演绎的有两部,分别是《路乔·西拉》和《假园丁》,也是现场录音,但录制电平较低;《牧人王》和《阿斯卡尼奥在阿尔巴》等几部更冷门的歌剧则Brilliant自己录制,指挥是文茨(Wentz);Orfeo提供了哈格指挥萨尔兹堡莫扎特纪念馆乐团1983年版的《装疯卖傻》(La Finta Semplice),主唱者有贝尔冈扎、多纳特、霍尔等。当然也不能忘了莫扎特最短小的一部歌剧《巴斯蒂恩和巴斯蒂恩娜》,它和莫扎特的歌剧处女作《阿波罗和美少年》一起,选用了Edel提供的莱比锡广播乐团版本,其中的东德演唱家,虽然知名度不高,但演唱却是十分妥帖。
This set is so inexpensive (for 170 CDs) that you may be suspicious about the quality. I have now played about 25-30 of the 170 discs in this set. I have had fun exploring the lesser-known pieces, often just making a random blind grab from the box. I have found the music generally enjoyable, well-played and well-recorded.
I cannot claim that the performances are necessarily the equal of the very best recordings of inpidual works. For example, I generally prefer the Perahia piano concertos, the Uchida piano sonatas, the symphonies conducted by Mackeras, Szell, etc., to the versions included in this box. But that seems entirely beside the point when this 170 CD set costs so little. I can enjoy listening to a good performance of good music, even if I know that there might be a better performance out there. If your expectations are adjusted to the price point, as mine were, your reaction upon receiving the set may be similar to mine -- pleasant surprise that so much of the music is so well played and recorded. Some of the musicians -- many Dutch -- were unfamiliar to me, but sprinkled through you will find Sir Colin Davis, Gerd Seifert, and some other names that you may recognize.
I have discovered various obscure masses and chamber music that I had not previously collected but that I definitely would play again. So far, I have found only one disc that I would be unlikely to repeat, the single disc containing "Der Schauspieldirektor", a singspiel opera. (My complaint lay not with the performance, or the recording, but with the dated work itself, which has little appeal to me. Der Schauspieldirektor consists of a few short musical numbers embedded in about 40 minutes of tedious spoken German). But I listened (with a little fast forwarding) and, at least, I now know why it is not played today.
The majority of the recordings appear to be digital, with some of the operas being earlier analog recordings of the 1960s or 1970s. I thought the quality of the sound was generally fine.
Although the CDs in this set are inexpensively packaged in paper envelopes, with no jewel cases, there are some advantages to the packaging. The set is compact upon your shelf. The music is color-coded by category, and numbered and labeled within each category. The inside top cover of the attractive cardboard box that contains all of the CDs and envelopes provides a printed listing of the contents. Frankly, I found myself wishing that the rest of my collection was organized similarly.
There are no booklets or printed essays but there is a CD-ROM with essays on the works and artist bios. The detailed essays are more than I would have expected in a bargain set. However, they are not especially handy on a CD-ROM. Nevertheless, there was probably no other feasible alternative at this price, and it is better to have the essays in an inconvenient place than not to have them at all.
Many of the recent reviews here for this complete Mozart set concentrate mostly on price, specifically, where to find the best deal among the Amazon web sites in different countries. Those reviews are definitely worth reading although I believe the price advertised right here on the US Amazon.com site may have fallen since some of those reviews were posted.
Overall, a very pleasant surprise and a good value, in my opinion.
专辑曲目:
volume 1: symphonies
# CD 1 KV 16-19-19a-22-43-45
# CD 2 KV 48-73-74-110-112
# CD 3 KV 114-124-128-129
# CD 4 KV 133-134-162-181
# CD 5 KV 199-200-202
# CD 6 KV 111a-130-132-183
# CD 7 KV 182-184-196-201-318
# CD 8 KV 319-338-385 “Haffner”
# CD 9 KV 297 “Paris”-425 “Linz”-550
# CD 10 KV 504 “Prague”-543
# CD 11 KV 550, 551 “Jupiter”
volume 2: concertos
# CD 1 PIANO CONCERTOS KV 107
# CD 2 PIANO CONCERTOS KV 491 - KV 40 - KV 415
# CD 3 PIANO CONCERTOS KV 450 - KV 413 - KV 488
# CD 4 PIANO CONCERTOS KV 467 - KV 37 - KV 503
# CD 5 PIANO CONCERTOS KV 271 - KV 39 - KV 414
# CD 6 PIANO CONCERTOS KV 453 - KV 175 - KV 238
# CD 7 PIANO CONCERTOS KV 451 - KV 246 - KV 459
# CD 8 PIANO CONCERTOS KV 466 - KV 482
# CD 9 PIANO CONCERTOS KV 456 - KV 537
# CD 10 PIANO CONCERTOS KV 449 - KV 41 - KV 595
# CD 11 for 2 & 3 pianos, Concert Rondos
# CD 12 Clarinet Concerto KV 622 Concerto for Flute, Harp & Orchestra KV 299
# CD 13 Flute Concertos
# CD 14 Oboe Concerto KV 314 Bassoon Concerto KV 191 Sinfonia Concertante for Winds KV 297
# CD 15 Horn Concertos
# CD 16 Violin Concertos 1-2-3
# CD 17 Violin Concertos 4-5
# CD 18 Sinfonia Concertante for Violin,Viola & Orchestra KV 364 Concertone for 2 Violins &
Orchestra KV 190
volume 3: serenades, pertimenti, dances
# CD 1 Divertimenti KV 136-137-138-334
# CD 2 Eine kleine Nachtmusik KV 525 Ein musikalischer Spass KV 522 Notturno KV 286
# CD 3 Cassationen KV 63-99 Divertimento KV 251
# CD 4 Divertimenti KV 113-131-205
# CD 5 Serenades KV 100-204
# CD 6 Divertimenti KV 247-287
# CD 7 Serenata Notturna KV 239 Posthorn Serenade KV 320 Gallimathias Musicum KV 32
# CD 8 Haffner Serenade KV 250
# CD 9 Serenades KV 185-203
# CD 10 Marches
# CD 11 DIVERTIMENTI KV 439b(KV Anhang 229) Nos 1-3 for 2 Clarinets & Bassoon
# CD 12 DIVERTIMENTI KV 439b(KV Anhang 229) Nos. 4-6 for 2 Clarinets & Bassoon
# CD 13 SERENADES KV 375 & 388
# CD 14 DIVERTIMENT1 KV 166, 186, 226 & 227
# CD 15 DIVERTIMENTI For 2 Oboes, 2 Horns & 2 Bassoons
# CD 16 Adagios / Horn Duos
# CD 17 SERENADE “Gran Partita”
# CD 18 Dances KV 65a - 103 - 122 - 123
# CD 19 Dances KV 61h - 104 - 105 - 176
# CD 20 Dances KV 101 - 164 - 267 - 363 -461 - 462 - 463 - 509
# CD 21 Dances KV 534 - 535 - 536 - 567 - 568 - 571
# CD 22 Dances KV 585 - 586 - 603 - 606 - 609
# CD 23 Dances KV 300 - 587 - 600 - 601 - 602 - 604 - 605 - 610
volume 4: chamber music-violin sonatas-church sonatas
# CD 1 HORN QUINTET KV407 OBOE QUARTET KV 370 CLARINET QUINTET KV 581
# CD 2 PIANO QUINTET KV 452 CLARINET TRIO KV 498
# CD 3 PIANO TRIOS KV 254-496-502
# CD 4 PIANO TRIOS KV 542-548-564
# CD 5 PIANO QUARTETS KV 478-493
# CD 6 FLUTE QUARTETS
# CD 7 FLUTE SONATAS KV 10-15
# CD 8 VIOLIN SONATAS KV 6-9
# CD 9 VIOLIN SONATAS KV 26-31 VARIATIONS KV 359 & 360
# CD 10 VIOLIN SONATAS KV 376-377-372
# CD 11 VIOLIN SONATAS KV 379-380-547
# CD 12 VIOLIN SONATAS KV 296-305-526
# CD 13 VIOLIN SONATAS KV 301-303-481
# CD 14 VIOLIN SONATAS KV 302-304-378-403
# CD 15 VIOLIN SONATAS KV 306-454
# CD 16 CHURCH SONATAS
volume 5: string ensembles
# CD 1 string Quintets KV 174 & 406
# CD 2 string Quintets KV 515 & 593
# CD 3 string Quintets KV 516 & 614
# CD 4 string trio KV 563
# CD 5 duos kv 423-424 trio kv 266
# CD 6 preludes & fugues kv 404a
# CD 7 string quartets kv 155-160
# CD 8 string quartets kv 168-173
# CD 9 string quartets kv 387-421
# CD 10 string quartets kv 428-458
# CD 11 string quartets kv 464-465
# CD 12 string quartets kv 499-575
# CD 13 string quartets kv 589-590-80
volume 6: keyboard works
# CD 1 Piano Sonatas KV 279-280-281-282-283
# CD 2 Piano Sonatas KV 284-309-310
# CD 3 Piano Sonatas KV 311-330-331
# CD 4 Piano Sonatas KV 332-333-457
# CD 5 Piano Sonatas KV 533-545-570-576
# CD 6 Variations Vol. I
# CD 7 Variations Vol. II
# CD 8 Variations Vol. III
# CD 9 Klavierstьcke Vol. I
# CD 10 Klavierstьcke Vol. II
# CD 11 Klavierstьcke Vol. III
# CD 12 Keyboard Works 4-Hands, Vol. I
# CD 13 Keyboard Works 4-Hands, Vol. II
# CD 14 Keyboard Works 4-Hands & 2 Pianos
# CD 15 Organ Works
volume 7: Sacred works
# CD 1 requiem KV 626
# CD 2 litaniae kv 109-243
# CD 3 litaniae kv 125-195
# CD 4 Vesperae Solennes KV 321-339
# CD 5 Regina Coeli KV 108-127-276 Sancta Maria KV 273
# CD 6 Offertoria
# CD 7 Liturgical Chants
# CD 8 Great Mass KV 427
# CD 9 Missa Solemnis KV 337 Coronation Mass KV 317 Kyrie KV 341
# CD 10 Missa Brevis KV 275 Missa Longa KV 262
# CD 11 Missa Brevis KV 259 Missa KV 258, 257
# CD 12 Missa Brevis KV 220, 194, 192
# CD 13 Missa KV 167 Missa Brevis KV 140
# CD 14 Missa Solemnis KV 139 Missa Brevis KV 65
# CD 15 Missa KV 66 Missa Brevis KV 49 Kyrie KV 33
# CD 16/17 LA BETULIA LIBERATA
# CD 18/19 Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots
# CD 20 Freemason Music
# CD 21 GRABMUSIK DAVIDDE PENITENTE
volume 8: concert arias-songs-canons
# CD 1 canons
# CD 2 concert arias I
# CD 3 concert arias II
# CD 4 concert arias III
# CD 5 concert arias IV
# CD 6 concert arias V
# CD 7 concert arias VI
# CD 8 songs I
# CD 9 songs II
volume 9: operas
# CD 1/2 APOLLO ET HYACINTHUS
# CD 3 Bastien und Bastienne
# CD 4/6 LA FINTA SEMPLICE
# CD 7/9 Mitridate, rи di Ponto
# CD 10/12 ASCANIO IN ALB
# CD 13/14 IL SOGNO DI SCIPIONE
# CD 15/17 LUCIO SILLA
# CD 18/20 LA FINTA GIARDINIERA
# CD 21/22 IL Rи PASTORE
# CD 23/24 ZAIDE
# CD 25 THAMOS, KЦNIG IN ДGYPTEN
# CD 26/28 IDOMENEO
# CD 29/30 Die Entfьhrung aus dem Serail
# CD 31 Der Schauspieldirektor
# CD 32/34 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
# CD 35/37 DON GIOVANNI
# CD 38/40 Cosм Fan Tutte
# CD 41/42 DIE ZAUBERFLЦTE
# CD 43/44 LA CLEMENZA DI TITO