Artist: Kurt Masur / Cyprien Katsaris / Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Title Of Album: Mendelssohn: The Symphonies; The Piano Concertos
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: Warner Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (*image+.cue, log, covers)
Time: 5CDs, 04:52:16 min
Full Size: 1,16 Gb
Kurt Masur led the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in two recordings of the complete symphonies of Felix Mendelssohn – the first for Eurodisc in the early '70s when he was a beardless young man and the second for Teldec in the late '80s and early '90s when he was a fully bearded mature man. Although the first set was only intermittently available outside of Europe, it was considered at the time one of the great Mendelssohn cycles: brilliantly colorful, ardently lyrical, powerfully dramatic, and completely controlled. Thanks to Teldec's distribution through Warner Classics, the second set was available all over world, but those who remembered the earlier cycle considered it a distinct disappointment. While no less completely controlled, its colors were darker and drabber, its lyricism was cooler and more reserved, and its drama was much less compelling. That didn't mean the performances weren't worth hearing. Masur knew the scores inside out and how to make every note count, plus the Gewandhaus, Mendelssohn's old orchestra, plays with consummate dedication. But it does mean that listeners coming fresh to the music should strongly consider coming to it through a different recording first, preferably Masur and the Gewandhaus' earlier one. The couplings of Masur's well-played but less than magical performance of the complete incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream plus Cyprien Katsaris' virtuosically flashy but interpretively empty performances of the three works for piano and orchestra adds two more discs but no more excitement to the set. Teldec's smoothed-over digital sound is no improvement over the Eurodisc's lush stereo sound.
CDs:
CD1: Symphonies 1 & 5
CD2: Lobgesang (Symphony No.2)
CD3: Symphonies 3 & 4
CD4: Piano Concertos 1 & 2, Capriccio Brillant
CD5: Ein Sommernachtstraum
Tracklist:
CD1: Symphonies 1 & 5
Symphony No.1, op.11
01. Allegro molto
02. Andante
03. Menuetto: Allegro molto
04. Allegro con fuoco
Symphony No.5, op.107 'Reformation'
05. Andante - Allegro con fuoco
06. Allegro vivace
07. Andante
08. Choral: Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott! / Andante con moto - Allegro vivace - Allegro maestoso
CD2: Lobgesang (Symphony No.2)
Lobgesang (Symphony No.2), op.52,
симфоническая кантата на слова Библии
01. Maestoso con moto - Allegro - Maestoso con moto -
02. Scherzo: Allegretto un poco agitato -
03. Adagio religioso
04. Chor: Alles, was Odem hat, lobe den Herrn!
05. Arie und Frauenchor: Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele
06. Recitativo: Saget es, die ihr erloest seid
07. Arie: Er zaehlet unsere Traenen
08. Chor: Saget es, die ihr erloeset seid
09. Duett und Chor: Ich harrete des Herrn
10. Arie: Stricke des Todes hatten uns umfangen
11. Chor: Die Nacht ist vergangen
12. Choral: Nun danket alle Gott
13. Arie: Drum sing' ich mit meinem Liede
14. Schlusschor: Ihr Voelker, bringet her dem Herrn Ehre und Macht!
Barbara Bonney, soprano
Edith Wiens, soprano
Peter Schreier, tenor
Michael Schoenheit, organ
Rundfunkchor Leipzig
CD3: Symphonies 3 & 4
Symphony No.3, op.56 'Scottish'
01. Andante con moto - Allegro un poco agitato - Assai animato -
02. Vivace non troppo -
03. Adagio -
04. Allegro vivacissimo · Allegro maestoso assai
Symphony No.4, op.90 'Italian'
05. Allegro vivace
06. Andante con moto
07. Con moto moderato
08. Saltarello: Presto
CD4: Piano Concertos 1 & 2, Capriccio Brillant
Piano Concerto No.1, op.25
01. Molto allegro con fuoco
02. Andante
03. Presto
Capriccio brillant for piano and orchestra, op.22
04. Andante - Allegro con fuoco
Piano Concerto No.2, op.40
05. Allegro appassionato
06. Adagio
07. Finale: Presto scherzando
Cyprien Katsaris, piano
CD5: Ein Sommernachtstraum
Ein Sommernachtstraum, op.61
01. Ouverture
02. Text: Hier ist das Blatt
03. Nr.1: Scherzo
04. Nr.2: Melodram: Ueber Taeler und Hoeh'n
05. Elfenmarsch
06. Nr.3: Lied mit Chor: Kommt! Einen Ringel-, einen Feengesang!
07. Nr.4: Melodram: Was du wirst erwachend sehn
08. Nr.5: Intermezzo
09. Nr.6: Melodram: Welch hausgebackenes Volk
10. Nr.7: Notturno
11. Text: Nun, toller Geist! / Nr. 8: Melodram: Sei, als waere nichts geschehn!
12. Nr.9: Hochzeitsmarsch
13. Text: Nun kommt! / Nr.10: Melodram: Was dies bedeuten soll
14. Text: Beliebt es Euer Hoheit
15. Nr.11: Ein Tanz von Ruepeln
16. Text: Zu Bett, geliebte Freunde
17. Nr.12: Melodram: Jetzt beheult der Wolf den Mond
18. Nr.13: Finale: Bei des Feuers matten Flimmern
Edith Wiens, soprano
Christiane Oertel, mazzo-soprano
Friedhelm Eberle, speaker
Rundfunkchor Leipzig
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