Symphonic Poems, Volume 3 (Incls Mazeppa)
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Symphonic Poems, Volume 3 (Incls Mazeppa)
BBC Philharmonic / Gianandrea Noseda (cond)
[ Chandos / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 20 August 2009
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"Mazeppa is the most familiar of these works, and Noseda gives it a rousing performance… Noseda deals well with the often episodic nature of this music… He does this by an acute sense of pacing, so that each section seems to inhabit its natural tempo, and move smoothly into the next one." BBC Music Magazine
"Here, once more, is one dramatic gesture after another to startle and provoke Liszt's contemporaries who, indifferent to such generosity, quibbled over the length of the massive Héroïde funèbre and dismissed Mazeppa as vulgar and meretricious. …the BBC Philharmonic under Gianandrea Noseda... achieve a special sense of exultance rather than bombast in Festklänge, written to celebrate Liszt's planned marriage to the Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein. And they are no less successful in the vast spans of the Héroïde funèbre, a still desolating tribute to those who suffered "throughout the whole spectrum of human carnage" (Liszt). Fluent and eloquent as ever, Noseda and his orchestra have once more been superbly recorded." Gramophone Magazine, July 2007
"Mazeppa is the most familiar of these works, and Noseda gives it a rousing performance… Noseda deals well with the often episodic nature of this music… He does this by an acute sense of pacing, so that each section seems to inhabit its natural tempo, and move smoothly into the next one." BBC Music Magazine, July 2007 ****
Tracks:
Prometheus, symphonic poem No. 5, S99
Mazeppa, symphonic poem No. 6, S100
Festklänge, symphonic poem No. 7, S101
Héroide funèbre, symphonic poem No. 8, S102
