Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 1-7, Kullervo, Pohjola's Daughter, The Oceanides
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Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 1-7, Kullervo, Pohjola's Daughter, The Oceanides
Monica Groop (mezzo), Peter Mattei (baritone) / London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
[ LSO Live SACD + Blu-ray audio / 6 CD/Blu-ray Disc ]
Release Date: Friday 14 October 2016
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Recorded live in DSD at the Barbican Hall, between 2002 and 2008
5 SACD Hybrid + 1 Pure Audio Blu-ray, Audio 2.0 stereo and multi-channel 5.1
Sir Colin Davis was instrumental in the development and success of LSO Live, including the label's first Grammy award. He also played a huge part in the pre-eminence of the LSO across the globe for more than 50 years. A 'master Sibelian' his landmark cycle of the complete symphonies on LSO Live has been described as possibly "the finest Sibelius cycle on disc" by The Observer.
The original SACD Hybrid albums and accompanying CD boxed set are among the most successful and popular recordings on the label and they're now presented as one complete SACD Hybrid and Pure Audio Blu-ray collection, bringing together 'Kullervo' with 'Pohjola's Daughter', not available onthe original CD boxed set, and 'The Oceanides', previously only available as part of the limited edition 'Sir Colin Davis Anthology'.
Sibelius was one of the 20th century's greatest and most innovative symphonists, reworking the traditional symphonic structure as radically as Beethoven did in his day. His music is characterised by beauty, mystery, colour and light, together with his strong love for his native Finnish homeland. Praised for their sound quality as well as the music-making, this digibox set of classic LSO Live recordings also features a Pure Audio Blu-ray, containing HD master audio, allowing listeners to experience this award-winning cycle in a whole new way.
"The First is archetypal latter-day Davis, vehemently alive and unafraid to slam on the brakes in the interests of heightened expressivity. The Fourth is even more impressive in its muscular directness, contemplating barren wastelands without the sugar-coating of Romanticism." Gramophone on 1 & 4
"What Sir Colin Davis has to say about Sibelius's Second Symphony hasn't changed in substance since his first recording with the Boston Symphony, but the paragraphs now flow with ever more assured, Wordsworthian cadences… The life-and-death struggle of the second movement is underlined by two alternating tempi which Davis has not contrasted so dramatically before, not even in the quicker concert performance in Dresden." Gramophone on No 2 & Pohjola's Daughter
"a blistering performance … Groop was heart-rending in her description of her abandonment as a child, and Sibelius's orchestration was fabulously imaginative, with a passage of shimmering woodwind trills depicting the sounds of the forest. Mattei's horrified response was equally powerful, accompanied by shattering dissonances in the orchestra." The Guardian on Kullervo
Tracks:
Symphonies Nos. 1-7 (complete)
Kullervo, Op. 7
Monica Groop (mezzo), Peter Mattei (baritone)
The Oceanides, Op. 73
Pohjola's Daughter, Op. 49
