Sinfonieorchester Aachen - Symphony No. 4 - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

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?After acclaimed recordings of the Third ('Dausgaard... makes the music sound vital and even revolutionary', Fanfare) and Sixth ('This persuasively played work could be no better served', MusicWeb International), Thomas Dausgaard and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra now present Anton Bruckner's Fourth Symphony, 'Romantic' in it's second version (1878-1880), the one with which this work has become widely known. InchNothing like this has been written since BeethovenInch conductor Hans Richter is said to have declared after the successful premiere of Bruckner's Fourth Symphony in Vienna in 1881. This success finally gave the 56-year-old composer the attention and recognition he sorely needed and one can affirm that it was from this day onwards that Bruckner was actually cultivated in Vienna after years of public humiliation. Despite it's nickname given by the composer himself, this symphony in no way expresses existential pain. Rather, the romanticism refers to the experience of nature - from sublime forest magic to hunting scenes - emphasized by the horn, the quintessential romantic instrument, which is given a prominent role.

Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.4 portrays another side of the composer, one hitherto unseen by the general public. No major battles are fought in this symphony; rather it is a childlike vision of life and a better world in the Hereafter. On this new Pentatone , Marc Albrecht, it's chief conductor, leads the Netherlands Philharmonic in performance of this work. The soprano Elizabeth Watts, whose voice was described by Int'l Record Review as Inchone of the most beautiful Britain has produced in a generationInch, is the touching last movement's featured soloist.