Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 4

Klasyczna Muzyka Symfoniczna
premiera polska: 2023-01-18
kontynent: Europa
opakowanie: Digipackowe etui
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Editor's info:
After a period-instrument reading of the Symphony no.1 that received unanimous acclaim from the critics, François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles return to Mahler.
Joined by the luminous voice of Sabine Devieilhe for the famous finale, they offer us their vision of the Fourth Symphony, which in its own way marks the composer’s transition to modernity, and reveal unsuspected colours and instrumental balances.
We still have much to learn about the polyphonic transparency possible within Mahler’s big orchestra.

BBC Music Magazine * * * * *
What is remarkable about hearing Mahler’s most classicallyorientated symphony performed on instruments of the period when it was written is that the music’s strongly Expressionist subtext comes across so vividly...Altogether, this very well recorded disc is fascinating in the way it sheds new light on a familiar masterpiece.

Gramophone Magazine
I absolutely adored this performance...What registers immediately in Roth’s reading – and the deliciously honest playing of his band Les Siècles – is an open-faced, playful nature.

Sunday Times * * * * *
Clarity, balance, transparency and differentiation are everything on this superlative Mahler Four...The massed orchestral ranks Mahler called on in his symphonies can, with a modern-instrument band, threaten to bludgeon subtlety. Roth and his orchestra, deprived of — and liberated from — this option, audibly relish the opportunity to let the light in.

The Guardian
Roth’s strait-laced performance suits the symphony’s pared down textures and classical proportions well, though one suspects that later instalments of his Mahler series, if it continues, will be more revealing.

International Classical Music Awards 2023 - Nominated - Symphonic Music

muzycy:
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)

Les Siècles
François-Xavier Roth: conductor

utwory:
I. Mahler: Symphony No. 4 - Bedächtig, nicht eilen 15:42
II. Mahler: Symphony No. 4 - In gemächlicher Bewegung, ohne Hast 9:37
III. Mahler: Symphony No. 4 - Ruhevoll, poco adagio 20:56
IV. Mahler: Symphony No. 4 - Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden. Sehr behaglich 8:30

total time - 54:45
wydano: 26th Aug 2022
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