Mozart's Symphony no.40 in G minor, in Building a Library with Nicholas Kenyon & Andrew McGregor
Nicholas Kenyon selects his favourite version of Mozart's Symphony no.40 in G minor K.550, and Lucy Parham shares her choices of the latest classical releases.
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Lucy Parham shares her choices of the latest classical releases.
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Building a Library
Mozart's Symphony no.40 in G minor K.550 with Nicholas Kenyon
Mozart's G minor Symphony is one of his most powerful and popular works. He worked on the symphony in 1788 when during a period of just a few weeks he also finished the mighty 39th and 41st symphonies. The work has taken people in very different ways. The composer, Robert Schumann, for instance thought it possessed "Grecian lightness and grace", others have seen it as a work of passion, violence, and grief, and some people are struck by the the witty, conversational style also found in Mozart's great operas.
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