Editadas originalmente numa caixa com todas as sinfonias de Mozart, estas gravações são geralmente consideradas as melhores que Karajan realizou destas obras, e apesar de ser obviamente Mozart, estas performances conseguem também combinar um som majestoso, belíssimo, com detalhe rítmico vigoroso, que os engenheiros da EMI souberam registar de forma soberba.

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Originally issued as a boxed set of all the late Mozart Symphonies (from No.35 to No.41, complete with rehearsal disc), these recordings are generally considered to be the most successful Karajan made of these works and although it is still very much Mozart in the Grand Manner, the performances manage to combine a richness and beauty of sound with vigorous rhythmic detail, superbly caught by the EMI engineers.

In the original September 1971 review Trevor Harvey of the GRAMOPHONE wrote:

There is surely no doubt about Karajan's quality as a Mozartian; if there is, these performances should dispel them... First of all, there is gusto in plenty ... this is no 'eighteenth-century drawing room' approach to Mozart; but since the orchestra is the Berlin Philharmonic there is never any exuberance conveyed at the expense of fine orchestral playing. At the same time, there is plenty of tender affection... No.40 is not as dark as some conductors make it and... beautifully... played. No.41 is splendid throughout, with really superb playing of the great finale.

Recorded on 21-25 September 1970 at Jesus Christus Kirche, Berlin. 
Produced by Michel Glotz, Engineered by Wolfgang Gülich.

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan

Lista de Faixas:

Lado A
Mozart: Symphony No.40 in G minor, K550
1. Molto allegro
2. Andante
3. Menuetto & Trio
4. Allegro assai

Lado B
Mozart: Symphony No.41 in C, K551 'Jupiter'
1. Allegro vivace
2. Andante cantabile
3. Menuetto (Allegretto) & Trio
4. Molto allegro