The maturity and wisdom harvested from a lifetime of making music on the highest levels ennobles Claudio Abbado’s leadership of the superb Orchestra Mozart. The sublime simplicity of their performance of the Brandenburg Concertos illuminates the complexities of Bach’s incomparable demonstration of the unity of Logic and Love.

Harpsichordist Ottavio Dantone, recorder player Michala Petri, trumpeter Reinhold Friedrich, supreme Baroque violinist Giuliano Carmignola and their colleagues demonstrate the mastery that makes them among Abbado’s favorite soloists.

Playing on period instruments, Orchestra Mozart liberates all the vitality embedded in Bach’s notes “…as if you’re hearing [the music] for the first time” (Classical Source).