MYASKOVSKY. Symphonies 4 & 11. SVETLANOV. OLYMPIA. OOP
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May 22, 2006
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May 15, 2006
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NIKOLAI MYASKOVSKY (1881-1950) SYMPHONY No.4 IN E MINOR, Op.17 SYMPHONY No.11 IN B FLAT MINOR, Op.34 RUSSIAN FEDERATION ACADEMIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA YEVGENY SVETLANOV, conductor OLYMPIA. OCD 734. p.2002. Stereo DDD OUT OF PRINT! TOTAL PLAYING TIME = 76:46 FROM MY PRIVATE COLLECTION
...The companion disc pairs two symphonies selfconsciously worked from limited thematic means. The generally grim and resentful Fourth‚ unsurprisingly neglected on disc until now‚ was written back to back with the Fifth. Its dour atmosphere must have something to do with the recent horrors of the composer’s military career. The shades of Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique‚ Rachmaninov’s Second and Mahler’s Sixth are pressed into service‚ yet also remind one that there are less turgid ways to convey negative emotion. Symphony No 11 (1931) is generally lighter in texture‚ and‚ like the Fifth‚ will repay repeated listening. At its heart is an austere‚ deeply felt slow movement‚ at times curiously reminiscent of Sibelius‚ while wholly characteristic in its embrace of ‘elevated’ melodic ideas and an idiosyncratic fugato treatment for solo woodwind. The finale is a set of variationscumsonata movement. One idea anticipates the first of Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances (can such resemblances be purely coincidental or is there a common source?); another variant is positively Brucknerian. Variable‚ sometimes sketchy playing‚ but decent recording and detailed notes make this a series well worth following. (Gramophone, May 2002).
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