Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra - Symphony No. 7 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra were linked by a long and intensive artistic collaboration, brought to an abrupt end by his death in October 2021. BR-KLASSIK now presents outstanding and as yet unreleased live recordings of concerts from the past years. This recording of Mahler's Seventh Symphony documents concerts from February 2011 in Munich's Philharmonie i'm Gasteig. Haitink first conducted a Munich subscription concert in 1958, and from then on he repeatedly stood on the podium of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra - either in the Herkulessaal of the Residenz or in the Philharmonie i'm Gasteig. This congenial collaboration lasted more than six decades. The orchestral musicians and singers enjoyed working with him just as much as the BR sound engineers. As an interpreter of the symphonic repertoire, and especially that of the German-Austrian late Romantic period, Haitink was held in high esteem worldwide. With him, the symphonies of Gustav Mahler were always in the best of hands. His driving principle was to take the sound architecture of a musical composition with it's many-layered interweavings and render it transparently audible; extreme sensitivity of sound was paired with a clearly structured interpretation of the score. A valid recording of Mahler's Seventh Symphony places the highest demands on the skills of the conductor as well as on the virtuosity of each individual orchestral musician. Only under such circumstances can the highly complex individual voices merge to form a magnificent whole - an undertaking that achieves breathtaking effects time and again. A conductor is required here who unites the ensemble of individual, soloist-level musicians with an overarching musical concept. With it's two grotesque Inchnight musicsInch, it's sounds of nature, naïve folk motifs and intoxicating orchestral tutti, the

The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra enjoyed a long andintensive artistic collaboration, which came to an abrupt end with Haitink's death in October 2021. BRKLASSIK now presents outstanding and previously unreleased live recordings of their concerts from pastyears. This recording of Dvorak's Seventh Symphony documents a concert given in March 1981 in theHerkulessaal of the Munich Residenz. The InchScherzo capricciosoInch is a studio recording, also from March1981.Following the success of Antonin Dvorak's first visit to London in 1884, the London Philharmonic Societyasked him to return the following year and to compose a new symphony for the occasion. It was anhonourable request - after all, the London Philharmonic Society had commissioned Beethoven's NinthSymphony six decades earlier! When Dvorak began sketching out the symphony on December 13, 1884, hewas well aware of the high expectations involved - both his own and those of others. Most music criticsand Dvorak biographers, however, have struggled with the interpretation of this exceptional piece. Forexample, it has been interpreted InchpoliticallyInch against the background of the growing German-Czechtensions of those years. But the existential power of the D minor Symphony - it's anger, it's expansivepessimism, i.e. it's confessional character - may also derive from the biography and personality of it'scomposer, which were probably far more complex, painful and problematic than any InchBohemian idyllInch wemight assume. Even in Dvorak's Eighth Symphony, which is considered to be more cheerful, and in his lastsymphony, InchFrom the New WorldInch, one can still detect a more or less latent tendency towards tragiclonging. The world premiere of the Seventh Symphony took place on April 22, 1885 in London, with thecomposer conducting. It became one of Dvorak's greatest successes

Details 1. Allergro Moderato 2. Adagio 3. Scherszo 4. Finale