Fantasias / The Crazed Moon / The Discovery of Heaven
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Fantasias / The Crazed Moon / The Discovery of Heaven
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski & Ryan Wigglesworth
[ LPO Live / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 20 August 2014
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LPO Principal Guest Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin has a great affinity with the German Romantic repertoire. His previous LPO Label disc, Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem, received great critical acclaim and is one of the most popular discs on the label.
In Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), Mahler married together for the first time the lyricism of the song-cycle and the formal ambition of the symphony, describing it as 'probably the most personal composition I have created thus far'.
This live 2011 concert recording from Royal Festival Hall features two of Britain's finest soloists: tenor Toby Spence and mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, who is particularly renowned for her Mahler interpretations.
GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014
"[The Discovery of Heaven] combines the spacious and the frenetic, timelessness and urgency, within an overall sense of luminosity. Fantasias (2009) is a magnificent showpiece for 21st-century orchestra, especially in this terrific performance...This is stunning music, played superbly and captured in good sound." (Five Stars BBC Music)
"The players sounds as if they are enjoying what is, at the very least, a glittering workout...Neither effete nor vulgar, this might just be the new music you've been waiting for, its wow-factor surface fluency only part of the story. Strongly recommended."
Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, January 2014
