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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Dohnányi - Variations on a Nursery Song
Ernó´ von Dohnányi had a long career as an important composer, pianist and teacher. Deeply indebted to the Germanic Romantic tradition, the works on this disc showcase his love of scintillating orchestral tone-colour – notably of brass, wind and percussion – and his fascination with Classical forms such as the variation. His Variations on a Nursery Song traverses several musical styles in a tour de force of good-humoured virtuosity, while the Symphonic Minutes and the Suite in F sharp minor cultivate a lush, romantic mood with characteristic dashes of suavity. “Falletta clearly loves this score and really appreciates the composer's unfailing imagination: her orchestra is waith her all the way in this happy and brilliant music...This music, and these performances, are a real tonic.” International Record Review, October 2010 | | | (also available to download from $6.25) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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The Saint-Louis Symphony Orchestra is the second-oldest symphony orchestra in the United States. 15 years in the making, these recordings were made in Powell Symphony Hall in 1992 and 1993. Lost in time, the master tapes were located by AAM Recordings and we are now honoured to present these remarkable performances for the first time. Features Leonard Slatkin, the dynamic American conductor who is now the musical director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. | | | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. |
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“Dohnányi's penchant for quality musical entertainment bore popular fruit with his perennially fresh Variations on a Nursery Theme.
Howard Shelley's performance is a model of wit and style, blending in with the orchestra whenever the moment seems right and employing an ideal brand of rubato. Bamert's conducting is properly portentous in the Introduction and charming elsewhere, whether in the musicbox delights of the fifth variation, the animated bustle of the sixth or the seventh's novel scoring (plenty for the bassoons and bass drum).
Kocsis and Fischer's is still marginally the best version overall, but Shelley and Bamert are no less musical.
Lovely, too, is the F sharp minor Suite, especially the opening Andante con variazioni which seems to straddle the worlds of Dvorák and Elgar (try the serene string choirs from 9'35").
The stamping Scherzo brings to mind the Scherzo from Bruckner's Ninth Symphony, and the tuneful Rondo finale has a striking resemblance to a key passage in the Rondo-burleske in Mahler's Ninth.
Also included is the very first recording of TheVeil of Pierrette, four scenes from a mimed entertainment dating from 1908-9. The best movement is the exuberant 'Wedding Waltz' (track 21), rumbustious music, carefree and beautifully scored. Chandos has come up with a dazzlingly realistic recording. A peach of a disc.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | (also available to download from $11.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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