W. Boyce - Symphony (8) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

One of the popularly cherished notions about musical genius is that it's products spring sui generis from the minds of composers. Originality is, to be sure, an important quality in nearly any compositional masterpiece. But as the accumulated trove of Western art music has grown over time, it's substance and traditions have provided rich stimulus to composers' imaginations. Each of the three compositions recorded here entails, among other things, an ingenious transformation of pre-existing musical material or styles. The eight-voice, Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth joins the Seattle Symphony and Ludovic Morlot in an exhilarating live performance of Luciano Berio's Sinfonia. Morlot paired Berio's Sinfonia with Boulez's Notations and Ravel's La valse, creating a sonic spectrum unlike any other. Hear every stunning detail of this recording in an immaculate 5.1 digital surround sound version engineered by 2017 Grammy winner for Best Surround Sound, Dmitriy Lipay.

Dvorak's 9th symphony paints the town red, for sure. But that's not all! The strings of Andras Keller are able to blossom like flowers. They don't play uniformly but with a seemingly congenital naturalness as if it were easy for 14 violins to sound as homogenously and at the same time as individually as a single violin. Also for the wind it is not the high performance that counts but the sensitivity and the flowing of the music, e. g. The English horn solo in the second movement. The brass no power play but rich and gentle, always sensitive chords. - The tempi, the transitions, everything flows organically and invites you to go along. That is the great art of legato. Old-fashioned to some people, in fact timeless beautiful. No surprise that one role model for Andras Keller is Wilhelm Furtwangler. After that and without any showing off the loved by many cellist Miklos Perenyi gently carries you off into the mysterious world of the rondo op 68/8 and InchKlidInch (silent wood) op. 95. Three slavonic dances from op. 46 round off the program. The (InchKlassik-heuteInch) recommendation of Guido Krawinkel in the latest review of another TACET recording was Inch... Keep your eyes and listen.Inch That's what we suggest here also.

Boyce / Academy Of St Martin In The Fields - William Boyce 8 Symphonies [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/06/2017