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Mozart Symphony No. 37 In G Major, K.444 (Wrongly Attributed To Mozart) is not recorded.

It's good to welcome this trim, 6-CD budget box of Mozart's (mostly) mature symphonies, recorded in the early 1970s. But with today's ears shaped by a new generation of conductors who favor smaller ensembles, transparent textures, fleet tempos, exaggerated contrasts, and what they believe to be period sonorities, this set can seem anachronistic, a throwback to an older era when tradition ruled with an often heavy hand. As such, many listeners will label Krips an "old fashioned" representative of the German-Austrian school. But tastes do change, and yesterday's orthodoxy can return as tomorrow's. Perhaps it's best to think of this set as a "period" relic, an example of how Mozart was played in mid-century and therefore a source of historical interest, and for those with open minds and ears a source of musical pleasures often preferable to the ferocity to which these scores are sometimes subjected today.