Release Date: 10 March 2017
Label: Cobra
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8713897904017
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
The practice of arranging orchestral works for smaller ensembles is as old as music history itself. From the baroque composers in the 1600's who wrote not for a specific set of instruments but for roles or functions, through composers as Mozart and Beethoven who used chamber arrangements of their bigger works as ways to promote and tour with their own music, to the almost forensic approach of Schönberg and his students in Vienna at the beginning of the XX century when they, within their selected group, dissected some major symphonic works which were very influential and relevant at the time.
On this CD Natalia Ensemble is paying a homage to the genius of Gustav Mahler by approaching his colossal 5th symphony in an original arrangement for 17 players and performed without a conductor. This novel version of Mahler's 5th gives a new perspective on the piece, it is both much clearer and transparent, showing every little detail that
Mahler hid in the piece as if looked through a magnifying glass, but at the same time, the chamber music nature of this arrangement and of Natalia Ensemble gives this performance a unique force, energy and depth which are the essence of the works of Mahler.
Natalia Ensemble is a project created by a group of young musicians with a similar musical background who after meeting and playing together in the GMJO (Gustav Mahler Jugend-Orchester), felt the need to prolong the experience of making music together. Their idea is to approach (without a conductor) big symphonic repertoire arranged for a soloists ensemble by studying and performing the score, thus taking
the full responsibility and control of the outcome. Orchestral works interpreted as chamber music pieces. United by a common view of
how music is made and spurred on by their friendship, they work to perpetuate this project, complementing the musical quality offered by the major symphonic musical formations.
Tracklisting
Folke Nauta, Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer, Prisma String Trio
Shuann Chai
Pauline Oostenrijk; Enno Voorhorst
Folke Nauta, Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer, Prisma String Trio
Enno Voorhorst
Izhar Elias
Nuala McKenna, Robert Kulek
Trevor Grahl, Francesca Ajossa
Josef Krips; Various Orchestras
Josef Krips
Atalanta Fugiens Orchestra; Vanni Moretto
The Orchestra Now; Leon Botstein
Yannick Nezet-Seguin; Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal
Brussels Philharmonic, Kazushi Ono
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonie, Friedrich Kleinhapl, Robert Kruzik
Sibylle Mahni; Andreas Spering; Brandenburger Symphoniker
