Verklärte Nacht / Chamber Symphony No. 2 [with Webern - Langsamer Satz, (slow movement)]

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Verklärte Nacht / Chamber Symphony No. 2 [with Webern - Langsamer Satz, (slow movement)]
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Heinz Holliger

[ Zig-Zag Territoires / CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 20 August 2014

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First collaboration of Zig-Zag Territoires with the great conductor, composer and oboist Heinz Holliger, and with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, this disc brings together pivotal works of the two Viennese composers, works written prior to abandoning tonality and still strongly linked to what went before but already offering glimpses of what the atonal adventure would be.

Heinz Holliger is a very great master for whom many composers have written. Also boasting a rich catalogue as a composer, he has played and conducted all over the world. With this very fine disc, he gives us particularly moving, committed interpretations of works that are sometimes enclosed in useless carapaces, backed up in that by a Lausanne Chamber Orchestra at the top of its form.

GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014

"the superb accounts of both the earlier Verklärte Nacht, which is starkly, sometimes almost expressionistically dramatic, and Webern's gorgeous single-movement Langsamer Satz, composed in 1905 while he was a pupil of Schoenberg, make the disc thoroughly worthwhile." (Guardian)

"Holliger, who has made a speciality of the Second Viennese School, provides an object lesson in refined yet powerfully intense interpretation...The strings of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra...make a well-integrated ensemble and the excellent recording keeps even the most turbulent textures lucidly balanced." (Gramophone)

Tracks:

Schoenberg:
Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4
Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 38b

Webern:
Langsamer Satz, (slow movement), Op. post. (1905)