Symphony No 40

📖 About this album

Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor is among his most emotionally intense and introspective works. Written in 1788, it balances drama, elegance and melancholy with refined orchestration. Alongside Symphony No. 41, it represents the peak of his symphonic output.

📝 Our review

Symphony No. 40 in G minor is Mozart at his most tense and restless. Written in 1788, it belongs to his group of three last symphonies composed in that extraordinary summer. The first movement—with its opening that begins without introduction, almost impatient—anticipates Romanticism even as Mozart remained a classicist. The orchestration is austere and focused; the emotion, genuine. One of the most performed works in the classical repertoire for very concrete reasons: it speaks directly.

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