Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5

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Manacorda and his spruce Potsdam band (modern instruments played with historical awareness) offer a…lithe, up-tempo performance, with vivid wind detailing and clearly etched textures, not least... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2017 More…

Release Date: 2nd Jun 2017
Catalogue No: 88985433222
Label: Sony
Length: 70 minutes

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 'Scottish'

Work length39:50

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Kammerakademie Potsdam
Antonello Manacorda

I. Andante con moto - Allegro un poco agitato

Track length16:02

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II. Vivace non troppo

Track length4:19

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III. Adagio

Track length9:42

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IV. Allegro vivacissimo - Allegro maestoso assai

Track length9:47

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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D major, Op. 107 'Reformation'

Work length30:17

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Kammerakademie Potsdam
Antonello Manacorda

I. Andante - Allegro con fuoco

Track length11:19

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II. Allegro vivace

Track length4:42

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III. Andante

Track length5:31

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IV. Choral "Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott". Andante con moto - Allegro vivace - Allegro maestoso

Track length8:45

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The Kammerakademie Potsdam, headed by Antonello Manacorda, received an Echo Klassik Award as the year's best orchestra for its complete recording of the Schubert symphonies. Now it is turning to a Mendelssohn cycle and has already received high praise for its recording of Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4: “sparkling and vivacious”, wrote the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, “a sentient being with heartbeat that breathes and never stops moving”. Now these works are followed by Symphonies Nos. 3 and 5, which occupy a special place in Mendelssohn's oeuvre. The atmospheric and popular “Scottish” Symphony (No. 3) has an autobiographical aspect in the form of the composer’s 1829 journey to Scotland, a place of longing much frequented by Central Europeans for its rugged landscapes, fog-bound seacoasts and legends of witches and sorcerers, all of which find their way into the music. Symphony No. 5, often called the “Reformation” Symphony, was written in 1830 for the 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession. In the event, its performance had to be postponed owing to the pan-European revolutions of 1830, and the work did not receive its première until two years later. An x8 trk piece of work.

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August 2017

Manacorda and his spruce Potsdam band (modern instruments played with historical awareness) offer a…lithe, up-tempo performance, with vivid wind detailing and clearly etched textures, not least in the finale’s strenuous fugal bouts. Of stiffness and pomposity there is ne’er a trace…the performance of the Scottish is in similar vein, and very enjoyable it is.

Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5

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