Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' & Strauss: Metamorphosen

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The Strauss, to open, shimmers with deconstructed clarity, its intertwining lines following their own course and yet largely in the pursuit of these whole – there is no over-egged intensity here.... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 13th Sep 2019
Catalogue No: ALPHA544
Label: Alpha
Length: 75 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2019

Nominee - Symphonic Music

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Strauss, R: Metamorphosen

Work length28:43

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Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sinfonia Grange au Lac

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 'Eroica'

Work length46:32

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Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sinfonia Grange au Lac

I. Allegro con brio

Track length13:15

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II. Marcia funebre (Allegro assai)

Track length15:48

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III. Scherzo (Allegro vivace) - Trio

Track length5:39

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IV. Finale (Allegro molto)

Track length11:50

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This live recording of Strauss’s Metamorphosen and Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony marks the birth on record of the ‘Sinfonia Grange au Lac’, an orchestra created in July 2018 on the occasion of the Rencontres Musicales d’Évian, the prestigious festival created by Mstislav Rostropovich in 1985 and revived since 2014. A musical ambassador intended to promote the excellence of its parent festival worldwide, the Sinfonia Grange au Lac consists of musicians from leading European orchestras (in Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt, Leipzig, London, Lucerne, Munich, Paris, Salzburg, Valencia and Vienna) as well as existing groups such as the Trio Karénine and the Quatuor Ébène. And it was a stroke of genius to manage to secure the services of Esa-Pekka Salonen.

The brilliant Finn became a passionate supporter of the project, checking the list of members one by one. He told Diapason magazine: ‘Our work together made me understand what guided Claudio Abbado when he created the Lucerne Festival Orchestra: the pleasure of working with handpicked musicians and making music with great freshness.

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December 2019

The Strauss, to open, shimmers with deconstructed clarity, its intertwining lines following their own course and yet largely in the pursuit of these whole – there is no over-egged intensity here. But whilst there are instrumental and artistic strengths in the Eroica…There are moments where its disparate parts remains so, and the works lacks that final overall thrill.

March/April 2020

[Strauss] The throbbing ache of most performances is absent, yet in its place is a luminous beauty one cannot help but appreciate. The recorded sound for the new reading is vivid and clear; the string playing is lovely, its focus being on ensemble rather than overlapping soloists.

Awards Issue 2019

Salonen’s pairing of these obliquely connected works shrewdly suggests a spirit of regeneration born of the elements…Salonen and his young players are punchy and vital [in the Eroica] – bags of sinew and an unvarnished tone throughout…in a sense this disc is its own ‘occasion’ with its own atmosphere, and that has to count for something.

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