New Release Round-up,
New Release Round-up - 16th June 2017
This week's highlights include a complete Mendelssohn symphony cycle from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Prokofiev piano concertos from Simon Trpčeski and Vasily Petrenko, plus a new work by Jonathan Dove, Telemann concertos for multiple instruments and a box set celebrating André Cluytens orchestral recordings.
Deutsche Grammophon presents a new interpretation of the complete Mendelssohn symphonies, recorded in February 2016 during a celebrated Mendelssohn festival at the Philharmonie de Paris - all under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
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Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Simon Trpčeski (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Prokofiev was just 21 when he first performed his First Piano Concerto in Moscow, on 25 July 1912, with his teacher Nikolay Tcherepnin conducting. The Third Concerto has the kind of grace and economy that one might almost call Classical; it has become one of the twentieth century’s most popular concertos.
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The music included here not only features every kind of weird and wonderful instrumental combination (four trumpets, three horns, two flutes and calchedon, and even mandolin, harp and dulcimer), they also display the most amazing variety of styles, from Vivaldian exuberance to elegant Ancien Régime dances by way of learned German counterpoint.
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Left unfinished at the time of the composer’s death in 1896, Bruckner's Ninth Symphony is an immense work that continuously unfolds with its stirring climaxes, daring chromaticism and harmonic richness. Muti brings remarkable lyricism to this dramatic work in a performance embodying the exceptional synergy between him and the CSO.
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Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor and Dvořák: Symphony No. 9
Münchner Philharmoniker, Sergiu Celibidache
Recordings from the Münchner Philharmoniker archive: Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 ”Unfinished“ (recorded 30 September 1988, Philharmonie im Gasteig) and Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 ”From the New World“ (recorded 16 June 1985, Herkulessaal der Residenz).
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In January 2016 the famous Harrison & Harrison organ in King’s College Chapel was removed for the most significant restoration since the 1960s. Just nine months later, the project was completed. Recorded a few months later, this album celebrates its voice reborn, in a programme that shows off this magnificent instrument at its very best.
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Jonathan Dove's new work, In Damascus, reflects aspects of the conflict in Syria; as an expression of empathy, sorrow, even outrage at those terrible events, with text taken from prose-poems by Ali Safar, translated by Anne-Marie McManus. It is presented alongside Dove's string quartet, Out of Time, and his Piano Quintet.
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