Thanks to the BBC I am really getting through these symphonies. I don't want to be too far ahead but 366 is going to take me well under a year at this rate. Still perhaps I need to build up a surplus of 15 before I take my holiday in May.
I have little to say about this symphony which was broadcast in a vintage and brilliant performance conducted by Georg Szell. Mozart wouldn't have been aware it was his last symphony, of course, but he produced a miraculous work; one of the greatest symphonies ever written and only a relatively few years after the symphony became "standardised" as a concert work. The fugue at the end remains simply breath-taking.

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