Pictures at an Exhibition (with Ravel - Ma Mere L'Oye)
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MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition (with Ravel - Ma Mere L'Oye)
Anima Eterna Brugge, Jos Van Immerseel
[ Zig-Zag Territories / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 10 February 2015
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The relation of Anima Eterna Bruges and Jos van Immerseel with French music is as strong as it is fruitful. The fantastic recent recording Debussy's La Mer (ZZT313) - henceforth recognized as a reference - stands as proof.
The singular colours and timbres of the period instruments of the Anima Eterna musicians also have their share in this amazing osmosis.
In this new recording where Ravel the orchestrator of Mussorgsky rubs shoulders with Ravel the orchestrator of his own piano work, the force of the interpretation perhaps relies even more on the astonishing richness of the Anima Eterna sound palette to serve works that make the orchestra sound in a way that very few have achieved.
"It's very interesting but not entirely successful. As always with Immerseel and his band, attention to detail is faultless, and it's good to hear more portamento in their phrasing than we're used to." (Guardian)
"Immerseel does not caricature the images that Mussorgsky evokes through his music and Ravel through his scoring. By sensitively deploying Anima Eterna's quality of sound, and by shaping the music with such pertinent phrasing, detail of instrumental colour and astute shading of dynamics, he throws new lights on some familiar pictures." (Daily Telegraph)
"Harshness is left to the Musorgsky, in which the characterisation is as sharp as a needle, with terrifying catacombs and spookily surrealist huts on chickens' legs...Immerseel tailors the trumpet's promenade theme with a final dimuendo, personalising what in some hands sounds merely robotic." (BBC Music Five Stars)
"the overall balance, blend and breath of fresh air that Jos van Immerseel brings to his interpretations...lend the performances lucidity, polish and individuality...Even those who prefer Mussorgsky's original piano version might be swayed by Anima Eterna's subtlety and mix of graphic discretion and immediacy." (Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice July 2014)
Tracks:
Six Sonatas for solo violin Op. 27
Sonata in A minor for Two Violins, Op. posth.
with Svetlin Roussev (violin)
