Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Gordan Nikolic, Thomas Wolfe
Release Date: 12 June 2020
Label: Tacet
Packaging Type: Super Jewel Case (SACD)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4009850023647
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
Violinist and conductor Gordon Nikolic says of this recording: The first time I heard "the" G Minor Symphony as "on-hold" music on the telephone, I thought, "Oh dear, another piece spoilt forever."
You're wanting to complain to your telephone provider about your last bill and you hear this racket!
But there is a remedy. You just need to listen a little further than the clip from the on-hold music. There are so many different moods: melancholy, grief, rage, consolation. And everything is woven together with such ingenuity and originality!
It may seem strange at first to combine this with the blissful togetherness of the Sinfonia Concertante, but on reflection it makes sense. Whilst the slow movement of the G Minor Symphony (in the same key as the Sinfonia Concertante) brightens the mood of the other movements, the melancholic slow movement of the Sinfonia Concertante casts a shade over the lightness of the outer movements."
Gordon Nikolic (musical director and solo violin), Richard Wolfe (solo viola) and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra take on this fragile co-existence with impeccable assurance, presented in Tacet's amazing Super Audio surround sound.
Tracklisting
Concerto Budapest, Andras Keller
Christoph Ullrich
Ensemble Peregrina, Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett
Concerto Budapest, Andras Keller
Concerto Budapest, Andras Keller
Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski
Dirk Altmann, Kei Shirai, Masato Suzuki & Ludwig Chamber Players
Concerto Budapest & Andras Keller
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
