Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic once again defy the inexorable progress of period performance in exhilarating accounts of Mozart using modern instruments, opined Gramophone. The new reissue of these recordings from the early 1990s includes several favorite symphonies, the Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola, the Masonic Funeral Music, a serenade and divertimento as well as the C minor Mass, of which Abbados performance is wide-ranging, delivering most satisfyingly on every aspect of this hugely varied score. He has an impressively unified team at his disposal, with a superb quartet of singers: in fact Bonney and Auger are as well matched as you could reasonably expect to find in the impossibly demanding Domine Deus duet (Music-Web International).

DISC 1 – CD1

March No. 1 in D Major, K. 335 (320a)

Serenade No. 9 in D Major, K. 320 “Posthorn”

2 I. Adagio maestoso – Allegro con spirito

3 II. Menuetto – Allegretto – Trio

4 III. Concertante – Andante grazioso

5 IV. Rondeau – Allegro ma non troppo

6 V. Andantino

7 VI. Menuetto – Trio I – Trio II

8 VII. Finale – Presto

9 March No. 2 in D Major, K. 335 (320a)

Divertimento No. 11 in D Major, K. 251, “Nannerl Septet”

10 I. Molto allegro

11 II. Menuetto – Trio

12 III. Andantino

13 IV. Menuetto – Tema con variazioni

14 V. Rondeau – Allegro assai

15 VI. Marcia alla francese

DISC 2 – CD Symphony No. 23 in D Major, K.181 (162b)

1 I. Allegro spiritoso

2 II. Andantino grazioso

3 III. Presto assai

Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E-Flat Major, K. 364 (320d)

4 I. Allegro maestoso

5 II. Andante

6 III. Presto

Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K.425 “Linz”

7 I. Adagio – Allegro spiritoso

8 II. Andante

9 III. Menuetto – Trio

10 IV. Presto

DISC 3 – CD Symphony No. 28 in C Major, K. 200 (189k)

1 I. Allegro spiritoso

2 II. Andante

3 III. Menuetto – Allegretto – Trio

4 IV. Presto

Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201 (186a)

5 I. Allegro moderato

6 II. Andante

7 III. Menuetto – Trio

8 IV. Allegro con spirito

Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385 “Haffner”

9 I. Allegro con spirito

10 II. Andante

11 III. Menuetto – Trio

12 IV. Finale – Presto

DISC 4 – CD Symphony No. 31 in D Major, K. 297 (300a) “Paris”

1 I. Allegro assai

2 II. Andante (Second Version)

3 III. Allegro

4 II. Andante (First Version)

5 Masonic Funeral Music, K. 477 (479a): Adagio

Symphony No. 25 in G Minor, K. 183 (173dB)

6 I. Allegro con brio

7 II. Andante

8 III. Menuetto – Trio

9 IV. Allegro

Symphony in D Major, K. 320 “The Posthorn”

10 I. Adagio maestoso – Allegro con spirito

11 II. Andantino

12 III. Presto

DISC 5 – CD Great Mass in C Minor, K. 427 (417a)

1 I. Kyrie – Andante Moderato

2 II. Gloria – Allegro vivace

3 II. Gloria – Laudamus te – Allegro aperto

4 II. Gloria – Gratias agimus tibe – Allegro

5 II. Gloria – Domine – Allegro moderato

6 II. Gloria – Qui tollis – Largo

7 II. Gloria – Quoniam – Allegro

8 II. Gloria – Jesu Christe – Adagio

9 III. Credo – Cum sancto spiritu

10 III. Credo – Allegro maestoso

11 III. Credo – Et incarnatus est

12 IV. Sanctus

13 V. Benedictus – Allegro comodo