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Label Challenge Classics |
UPC 0608917273229 |
Catalogue number CC 72732 |
Release date 07 April 2017 |
"The sound reproduction by Challenge Classics is excellent and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra plays at or nearly at world class level for the conductor."
Classical.net, 29-6-2018The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (RFO), founded in 1945, is an essential link in the Dutch music life. The RFO performs symphonic concerts and operas in concert, as well as many world- and Netherlands premieres. Most concerts take place in the context of concert series NTR ZaterdagMatinee (the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam), the AVROTROS Vrijdagconcert series (TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht), broadcasted live on NPO Radio 4 and regularly televised.
Markus Stenz was appointed chief conductor in 2012, after predecessor as Bernard Haitink, Jean Fournet, Willem van Otterloo, Hans Vonk, Edo de Waart and Jaap van Zweden. The RFO has worked with internationally highly regarded conductors such as Leopold Stokowski, Kirill Kondrashin, Antal Doráti, Charles Dutoit, Michael Tilson Thomas, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Mariss Jansons, Peter Eötvös, Vladimir Jurowski and Valery Gergiev. The American conductor James Gaffigan is principal guest conductor since the season 2011-2012. Bernard Haitink has connected his name to the RFO as patron.
The RFO has build an extensive CD catalogue, with works by contemporary composers such as Jonathan Harvey, Klas Torstensson, James MacMillan and Jan van Vlijmen, the registration of Wagner’s Parsifal, Lohengrin, die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Complete symphonies of Bruckner, Rachmaninow, Shostakovich and Hartmann have been released in recent years. The release of Simplicius Simplicissimus (K.A. Hartmann) has especially received the highest international critical acclaim. The RFO has been awarded the Edison Classical Oeuvre Award 2014 for its longstanding essential contribution to Dutch musical life.
The sound reproduction by Challenge Classics is excellent and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra plays at or nearly at world class level for the conductor.
Classical.net, 29-6-2018
this is a top-notch performance and a state of the art recording which will not disappoint.
Music Web International, 13-10-2017
Gaffigan was astute to concentrate on the wonderful variety of Prokofiev’s orchestral imagination. That and the joyous spirit of these two readings warrant a warm recommendation.
Fanfare Magazine, 08-9-2017
The Radio Philharmonic Orchestra is in excellent shape under the guidance of regular guest conductor James Gaffigan
Klassieke Zaken, 04-8-2017
Even if you already own the First and Fifth Symphony, this album (third in the serie) is worth buying. This is definetly on the same level as its competitors.
Luister Magazine, 01-7-2017
Beautiful, interesting works that Challenge Classics closely links to this CD.
Kerk en leven, 28-6-2017
An exciting adventure with Prokofiev
Trouw, 12-5-2017
The sound. Over the past decade I have been reviewing discs with varying sound quality. It is rare to get such a consistently high sound quality as with those released by Challenge Classics.
HRAudio, 28-4-2017
If Fauré's piano music has eluded you until now, these performances may provide the key.
Gramophone, 01-2-2017