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Type
Cd (musik)
Format
1 cd, 1 kommentarbilag
Sprog
engelsk
Genre
klassiske symfonier
Emneord
Emnetal
78.411
Bidragsydere
Indhold
Symfoni nr. 3Symfoni nr. 4, f-molHelen
Beskrivelse
Indspillet i Watford, England 2018
Forlag
Hyperion Records
Målgruppe
voksenmaterialer
Anmeldelser
The gramophone, 2020 January
"Editor's choice: One immediately feels Brabbins's special affinity for this music in the numinous pacing of the first movement of the Pastoral Symphony ... Brabbins and the Hyperion recording team bring a thrilling clarity to the heavier timbres of the Scherzo and the diaphanous, mercurial (even Holst-like) coda ... Brabbins's reading of the first movement of the Fourth Symphony has much of the familiar violence and ferocity that we know from this work ... Saraband 'Helen' ... is a heart-warming gem"
AllMusic, 2020
"Brabbins has reached a point where the BBC Symphony Orchestra responds readily to his merest gesture, and as a bonus, listeners get a hitherto unknown work, the Saraband "Helen" for tenor, chorus, and orchestra, a 1913 setting of text by Christopher Marlowe, realized by Brabbins himself from a voice-and-piano score. Essential listening for Vaughan Williams fans"
AllMusic, 2020
Classics today, 2019
"A bit more than half of this recording is excellent. The rest, not so much. We'll start there. Martyn Brabbins simply lacks the fire that the Fourth Symphony requires ... The performance of A Pastoral Symphony, on the other hand, is beautiful"
Classics today, 2019
Diapason, 2020 février
Vurdering: 5/5
BBC music magazine, 2020 March
"Orchestral choice: This is a really good performance of the Pastoral. On one level Martyn Brabbins is superbly alert to the intricacies of the musical texture. After on hearing I got the score and listened again - so many details I'd hardly noticed before, but there they were. On another level I've rarely, if ever, been so aware of this symphony as a subtle but sustained emotional narrative ... Brabbins's Fourth has many of the same virtues, plus an edgy, uncomfortable intensity of its own"
The observer, 2020-01-12
"Vaughan Williams's Symphony No 3, 'Pastoral' and Symphony No 4 ... two works that could hardly differ more, the quiet and contemplative Pastoral contrasting completely with the ferocious Fourth ... and Brabbins ... perfectly capturing the mystical, impressionist nature inherent in the linear counterpoint of the music, which rarely rouses itself above mezzo forte ... In the Fourth Symphony (1934) ... there is some great playing in the urgent, doomy opening of the first movement and in the strenuous polyphony of the frenetic finale, coolly directed by Brabbins in this much recommended landmark recording"
The observer, 2020-01-12