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摘要

Subtitled Lamentatione' this album download comes with a 54-page PDF booklet populated with relevant b/w Magnum photographs - a classy affair. It's the sixth volume in a period instrument cycle shared with Antonini's II Giardino Armonico [see HFN Sep '16, p92 for Decca's similar project under Ottavio Dantone]. Symphony No 26 in D-minor, the 'Lamentatione', is thought to contain an imagined conversation between Cod and a sinner for the Adagio (whereas Haydn mostly thought in terms of pure music). It contrasts with the C major 'Alleluia', while No 79 unusually boasts five movements. Symphony No 3 (c.1762) boasts a fugal finale alia breve. The playing is throughout superb and the sound beautifully balanced with an appreciable ambience from a hall within the city's Landgasthof Riehen. There's a 180g vinyl option too.