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“The budget choice. The modern instruments use the neat phrasing and articulation of period-instrument practitioners and are partnered by similarly sensitive soloists.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2008 | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Agnes Giebel (soprano), Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Kieth Engen (bass) Chöre des Hessisichen und des Süddeutchen Rundfunks & Radio-Sinfinieorchester Stuttgart, Hans Müller-Kray This is the first release of this 1959 recording from the Schwetzingen Festival. In addition to Wunderlich, the vocal artistry of Agnes Giebel and Kieth Engen bring Haydn’s secular oratorio to life. In this 60th anniversary year of the festival, six additional recordings are planned for release. | | | (also available to download from $21.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Haydn: The SeasonsSung in GermanSlimline double case and 36pp book
DSD recording, live at the Barbican 26–27 June 2010 In 2009 LSO Live released an acclaimed recording of Haydn’s Creation conducted by Sir Colin Davis. For his next release Sir Colin returns to the music of Haydn with a superb cast of young singers for his later oratorio The Seasons. Following the success of Die Schöpfung (The Creation), which had swiftly gained popularity throughout Europe, Haydn’s librettist Baron Gottfried van Swieten suggested another project, based on James Thomson’s pastoral epic, The Seasons. One of Haydn’s last major works, Die Jahreszeiten depicts the yearly cycle of life in the countryside through the eyes of three peasants, providing us with music of thrilling vitality and creativity. Sir Colin’s recent LSO Live releases have included Nielsen’s Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 (Editor’s Choice Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine Choice, Disc of the Month Hi-Fi News) and a disc featuring Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast and Symphony No 1. CONCERT REVIEW: “The sun had been shining all Sunday, but the LSO and Chorus had their own fount of light and life on hand; Colin Davis, injecting even more joy into Haydn’s last oratorio. It was happiness that above all characterised Davis’s ruddy-cheeked, rhythmically precise performance. In this monument to the Enlightenment, enlightenment began with the choice of soloists. Miah Persson, Jeremy Ovenden and Andrew Foster-Williams each had their own timbre, but stayed united in expressive clarity. The crowning glory was the London Symphony Chorus. With secure pitch, continuous glee and warmth they pounced upon everything that Haydn bequeathed” The Times “In The Seasons, as Robbins Landon says, old Haydn is “describing things — the first glow of dawn on the horizon, the hazy heat of midsummer, the ripe fields of autumn — which will soon retreat beyond his grasp”. Yet he does so with undiminished energy.” Sunday Telegraph, 29th May 2011 *** “Davis’s affection is palpable at every turn of this handsomely balanced reading. The London Symphony Orchestra plays beautifully for him, supplying colorful detail for the music’s frequent descriptive effects...The soloists are also strong, especially the pure-voiced soprano Miah Persson...The London Symphony Chorus, 100-plus strong, musters ample sound for the big outbursts and also handles contrapuntal numbers with precision.” Classical Review, 30th May 2011 “For the unmistakable mark of Sir Colin Davis alone, and a performance under his direction of Haydn's extensive oratorio The Seasons that oozes operatic exuberance and nature-fed optimism at its broadest level, this latest LSO Live disc is genuinely attractive” The Scotsman, 8th June 2011 “From cheeky surface details to the underlying sense of optimism, Colin Davis is alive to every nuance of Haydn's late masterpiece. The conductor's lightness of touch allows the music to flow like quicksilver, albeit without undermining the work's long-range architecture...The soloists are also on beguiling form.” Classic FM Magazine, August 2011 ***** “Sir Colin Davis's live account is founded on purposive modern-instrument playing and the conductor's own irrepressible dynamism; in this early eighties, he continues to show a sharp-eared appreciation of the characteristic detail of Haydn's writing...the performance displays clarity and precision: the sound articulates the complex texutres neatly, allowing Haydn's remarkable scoring and and highly effective vocal writing to register to delightful effect.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2011 **** “he is as responsive as ever to both the zest and humour of this most joyous of oratorios...Fugues always unfold with cumulative power...[The LSO chorus] sing with spirit, crisp diction and plenty of punch at climaxes - impressive agility, too......All three soloists are well-chosen...this exhilarating and affectionate LSO performance can be recommended to anyone wanting The Seasons in German, performed with modern instruments” Gramophone Magazine, September 2011 “how the LSO so instinctively finds the right kind of scale for playing Haydn is miraculous!...Miah Persson as Jane is all innocence and freshness, without the least diminution of tonal fullness; Jeremy Ovenden as Lucas reminds one with his flexibility and lovely open sound of Philip Langridge occasionally (there can be no higher praise); and Andrew Foster-Williams as Simon is a real bass, excelling as ploughman or huntsman and never turning cavernous.” International Record Review, July/August 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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The highly anticipated new release in the critically acclaimed Haydn ARS series once again features the Cappella Coloniesis under the direction of Bruno Weil. Bruno Weil is considered as one of the world’s leading interpreter of Haydn’s music. Haydn is represented in many of his 22 recordings released on the Sony Classical label. His recording with the Canadian ensemble Tafelmusik of the “Paris” Symphonies by Haydn won the MIDEM Cannes Classical award in 1996. Weil and Tafelmusik have also been awarded the German Echo Klassik Award as Orchestra of the Year in 1996 for their recording of Haydn’s Missa Sancti Bernardi (Heiligmesse), and in 1997 Weil himself won the Echo Klassik Award as Conductor of the Year. Cappella Coloniensis, founded in 1954, was the first orchestra in the world to make music according to historical performance practices. Amongst the important conductors that have stood in front of the orchestra are Ferdinand Leitner, William Christie and John Eliot Gardiner, to name only a few. In 2003 the musicians of Cappella Coloniensis chose Bruno Weil as their artistic director. The present recording of Haydn’s Seasons arises out of a concert performance given in the Philharmonie Essen in 2010. “Haydn is not regularly listed among the great orchestrators, but listen to the vivid playing of the innumerable characterful touches in this depiction of rural life and the natural world here and you might have to revise that view. Such famous scenes as the storm, the hunt and the rollicking harvesters are wonderfully realised and stunningly conveyed in the multi-dimensional sound” BBC Music Magazine, August 2011 *** | | | (also available to download from $21.00) | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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Fritz Wunderlich, Agnes Giebel & Keith Engen Sinfonie-Orchester des Suddeutschen Rundfunks, Hans Muller-Kray Wunderlich is the well known artist on this recording of Haydn’s Oratorio. The performance was recorded in Schwetzingen in 1959. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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