Antonio Pappano conducts Rachmaninov & Liadov

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I'm not sure when I last enjoyed a reading of the Rachmaninov Second Symphony so much...they play here as if possessed; the brass are on especially magnificent form...by heaven, Antonio Pappano... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 7th Mar 2011
Catalogue No: 9494622
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 66 minutes

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Liadov: The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62

Work length6:25

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Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2009-10-03
Recording Venue: 3rd October 2009, Sala Santa Cecilia, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Roma

Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

Work length1:00:09

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Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2009-12-01
Recording Venue: 17, 19, 21 & 22 December 2009, Sala Santa Cecilia, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Roma

I. Largo - Allegro moderato

Track length19:16

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II. Allegro molto - Meno Mosso - Tempo I

Track length10:30

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III. Adagio

Track length15:48

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IV. Allegro vivace

Track length14:35

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Recording of the Week, Rachmaninov's Second Symphony

28th March 2011

Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia bring unrivaled passion and commitment to the 1907 symphony in this live recording made in Rome in 2009.

Conductor Antonio Pappano leads Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia on this recording of one of the 20th century’s most thrilling and emotive symphonies, Sergej Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2. This is coupled with Anatoly Liadov’s beautiful tone poem The Enchanted Lake.

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April 2011

I'm not sure when I last enjoyed a reading of the Rachmaninov Second Symphony so much...they play here as if possessed; the brass are on especially magnificent form...by heaven, Antonio Pappano invests the piece with a passionate sense of belief...Principal clarinetist Alessandro Carbonare is exemplary on the long and haunting solo in the slow movement.

May 2011

Pappano and his Rome-based orchestra cultivate a feeling of deliberate understatement throughout this live performance which gives Rachmaninov's Second Symphony a light, almost ethereal feeling...Although lacking in full-on power, this performance is no less intense with elegant, sophisticated playing from the orchestra, and there's still plenty of drama when required.

May 2011

Pappano is revelatory. It is rare indeed to hear the Second Symphony executed with such clarity and with such a faithful, balanced spectrum of instrumental colour but the performance goes much further than that. Pappano has passion, too, and he knows when to unleash it and when to keep it quietly in reserve.

April 2011

Pappano has a wonderfully acute ear for orchestral detail. He draws playing of remarkable alertness, polish and warmth from his Italian orchestra...when I say that his new recording is very nearly a match for Previn's classic account, I can pay it no higher compliment. Pappano is also a little more rhythmically sharp...The Enchanted Lake, played with great detail, drawing out all the delicate colours of [the] exquisitely orchestrated miniature tone-poem.

11th March 2011

This is a superb performance, faithful to the score, intelligently balanced, organically conceived and infused with passion.

19th March 2011

Pappano, master conductor of opera, revels in the long lyrical lines of Rachmaninov’s second symphony, in which the tender orchestral songs never end, even when the “Dies Irae” plainchant breaks in...he gets velvet delicacy from Rome’s Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. They also excel in the pianissimo textures of Liadov’s The Enchanted Lake.

28th May 2011

I like the sound of Pappano’s Rome orchestra; there’s a satisfying richness to the lower string sonority which gives the glowering introduction a brooding intensity. The tiny touches of rubato, of ebb and flow, are unobtrusively applied; the first movement’s lyrical second theme emerges haltingly, hesitantly...This is a really good performance.

Antonio Pappano conducts Rachmaninov & Liadov

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