Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen - Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 ‘Scottish’ & 4 ‘Italian’ (2013)
BAND/ARTIST: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen
- Title: Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 ‘Scottish’ & 4 ‘Italian’
- Year Of Release: 2013
- Label: Glossa
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless
- Total Time: 01:17:51
- Total Size: 344 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, MWV N16, "Italian": I. Allegro vivace
02. Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, MWV N16, "Italian": II. Andante con moto
03. Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, MWV N16, "Italian": III. Con moto moderato
04. Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, MWV N16, "Italian": IV. Saltarello. Presto
05. Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, MWV N19, "Scottish": I. Andante con moto - Allegro un poco agitato - Assai animato
06. Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, MWV N19, "Scottish": II. Vivace non troppo
07. Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, MWV N19, "Scottish": III. Adagio
08. Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, MWV N19, "Scottish": IV. Allegro vivacissimo - Allegro maestoso assai
09. Was willst du dich betrüben, BWV 107: Chorale. Herr, gib, dass ich dein Ehre (arr. for orchestra)
Witnessing Frans Brüggen in any form of music-making is always a satisfying experience (the pleasure is doubly so this month with Glossa re-issuing the 1993 Sour Cream sessions featuring Brüggen as recorder player), so the opportunity to hear his interpretations of Mendelssohn’s Italian and Scottish Symphonies with his Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century is indeed an enticing one. Conductor and orchestra are both strongly in harmony with the evolving nature of the Romantic spirit of the 19th century; recent Glossa releases from them have included the much-praised Beethoven Symphonies and the Chopin Piano Concertos sets.
Here, Felix Mendelssohn is a composer who has long fascinated Brüggen – Glossa’s Cabinet series contains his 1997 recording of 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' – and on this new recording he marvellously captures the emotional torrents experienced by Mendelssohn when reflecting on his own Grand Tour, which took in both the blazing sun of Rome and also the mists of the Scottish Highlands.
Opting to perform the original 1833 version of the Italian Symphony (as at its first performance in London), Brüggen sets out to paint a stronger contrast with the later completed Symphony No 3, brilliantly reflecting the composer’s wildly fluctuating moods at the time; a view of Mendelssohn eloquently covered by Roeland Hazendonk in his accompanying essay.
These new readings from Frans Brüggen – taken, as ever, from live performances, on Glossa's Grand Tour series, here from Utrecht in The Netherlands – are rounded off with a moving orchestral transcription of music by a composer as close to Brüggen’s heart as he was to Mendelssohn’s: the closing chorale of Bach’s Cantata No 107, 'Was willst du dich betrüben'.
01. Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, MWV N16, "Italian": I. Allegro vivace
02. Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, MWV N16, "Italian": II. Andante con moto
03. Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, MWV N16, "Italian": III. Con moto moderato
04. Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, MWV N16, "Italian": IV. Saltarello. Presto
05. Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, MWV N19, "Scottish": I. Andante con moto - Allegro un poco agitato - Assai animato
06. Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, MWV N19, "Scottish": II. Vivace non troppo
07. Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, MWV N19, "Scottish": III. Adagio
08. Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, MWV N19, "Scottish": IV. Allegro vivacissimo - Allegro maestoso assai
09. Was willst du dich betrüben, BWV 107: Chorale. Herr, gib, dass ich dein Ehre (arr. for orchestra)
Witnessing Frans Brüggen in any form of music-making is always a satisfying experience (the pleasure is doubly so this month with Glossa re-issuing the 1993 Sour Cream sessions featuring Brüggen as recorder player), so the opportunity to hear his interpretations of Mendelssohn’s Italian and Scottish Symphonies with his Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century is indeed an enticing one. Conductor and orchestra are both strongly in harmony with the evolving nature of the Romantic spirit of the 19th century; recent Glossa releases from them have included the much-praised Beethoven Symphonies and the Chopin Piano Concertos sets.
Here, Felix Mendelssohn is a composer who has long fascinated Brüggen – Glossa’s Cabinet series contains his 1997 recording of 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' – and on this new recording he marvellously captures the emotional torrents experienced by Mendelssohn when reflecting on his own Grand Tour, which took in both the blazing sun of Rome and also the mists of the Scottish Highlands.
Opting to perform the original 1833 version of the Italian Symphony (as at its first performance in London), Brüggen sets out to paint a stronger contrast with the later completed Symphony No 3, brilliantly reflecting the composer’s wildly fluctuating moods at the time; a view of Mendelssohn eloquently covered by Roeland Hazendonk in his accompanying essay.
These new readings from Frans Brüggen – taken, as ever, from live performances, on Glossa's Grand Tour series, here from Utrecht in The Netherlands – are rounded off with a moving orchestral transcription of music by a composer as close to Brüggen’s heart as he was to Mendelssohn’s: the closing chorale of Bach’s Cantata No 107, 'Was willst du dich betrüben'.
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