Gramophone's Top Choice: Mackerras's Mozart
Find out why Gramophone named Sir Charles Mackerras's recording of Symphony No. 40 as its top choice
The multi-award-winning team of Sir Charles Mackerras and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra are back together this week to record Symphonies 29, 31, 32, 35 and 36, due for release in early 2010.
Latest news from Glasgow's City Halls is that the sessions are all going smoothly and are currently ahead of schedule. Sir Charles is continuing to fire the Orchestra up with energy and panache - we can't wait to hear the finished results!
Last week "Mozart Symphonies 38-41" won another award, this time the 'Publisher's Choice Recording' Award from StereoMojo: "complete mastery...one can only say bravo".
The current buzz is that the second Mozart Symphonies disc could out-shine its predecessor! Watch this space...