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"These are typical of the Klemperer approach to Mozart: serious performances, emphasising the power of the music ... Personally I find these performances most satisfying, ones that I want to hear again and again ... My own reaction was to find Klemperer's performances both of tremendous insight and completely compelling." - The Gramophone, 1957

Sometimes you just can't beat a well turned-out Mozart symphony, or perhaps three. And what better way to mark the 135th birthday this month of conductor Otto Klemperer than to offer just that - three fine symphony recordings of three fine Mozart symphonies?

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"The fierce music [of the Fifth], it need hardly be said, receives a fierce performance ... The Pastoral ... has many virtues indeed. The brook may seem to some listeners to be flowing rather fast in the second movement; but if this is so it is surely preferable to stagnation ... The Seventh symphony suffers from a generally poor quality of sound, becoming harsh and distorted at the more powerful moments...because of the undoubtedly Olympian qualities of the performance..." - The Gramophone, 1958

In these new XR remasters sound quality has been dramatically improved throughout the studio and live NBC recordings that made up RCA's definitive Toscanini Beethoven Symphony releases of the 1950s. Essential!

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"I think I shall recommend for a beginning the Second in E minor to be followed by the First in F, and lastly by the Third in C rnajor. I recommend the Léner versions of all three published by Columbia" - The Gramophone, July 1927

The Léner Quartet, drawn from the Budapest Opera Orchestra after the Great War, was arguably the greatest of the inter-war string quartets, and the first to record the complete Beethoven String Quartets, which this new series will bring you across three volumes. With their highly Romantic style, this is a very different Beethoven to modern ears - and quite a magical one. We begin with the six early quartets, in superb new transfers by Mark Obert-Thorn.