The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra / Jan Willem de Vriend
Complete Symphonies vol. 2: Symphony nos.1 & 3
- Type SACD
- Label Challenge Classics
- UPC 0608917264128
- Catalog number CC 72641
- Release date 20 June 2014
About the album
What is particularly amazing about the Mendelssohn symphonies is the fact that he is both harking back to old masters like Bach, and, as a child of his time, looking ahead. Especially his Italian and Scottish symphonies are pointing at the future, since Mendelssohn lived in the era of discovery, of der Wanderer. Goethe came up with his jungen Werther, a guy who went away to discover the world and upon returning nothing looked the same. And that is exactly what you can hear in his music: astonishment, translated into music using harmonies we maybe already knew but which in his hands sounded completely fresh and new. Having said that, you can also hear an old-school musical approach. Mendelssohn sometimes uses fugues or chorales we know from older styles. He was the first to bring back those trustworthy techniques – and that, in itself, was also new.
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11Symphony no. 1 Op. 11 in C minor Allegro di molto
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12Symphony no. 1 Op. 11 in C minor Andante
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13Symphony no. 1 Op. 11 in C minor Menuetto: allegro molto
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14Symphony no. 1 Op. 11 in C minor Allegro con fuoco
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15Symphony no. 3 Op. 56 (Scottish) in A minor Introduction und Allegro agitato
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16Symphony no. 3 Op. 56 (Scottish) in A minor Scherzo assai vivace
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17Symphony no. 3 Op. 56 (Scottish) in A minor Adagio cantabile
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18Symphony no. 3 Op. 56 (Scottish) in A minor Allegro guerriero und Finale maestoso
10:20
Hannes Minnaar plays Beethoven's Five Pianoconcertos
02-06-2017
Over a period of three years, pianist Hannes Minnaar recorded all five of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano concertos together with The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra led by Jan Willem de Vriend. So far, two single volumes had been issued: one including Concertos Nos. 4 & 5, which was acclaimed by Gramophone as: "beginning a Beethoven cycle with the Fourth and Fifth Concertos is a bold move but one that pays off ...
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