Symphony No. 6 Rusalka Fantasy [Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra , Mangfred Honeck

Description: Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Add The Pom Shop to your Favorites and receive our email newsletters about new items and special promotions. General Interest Symphony No. 6 & Rusalka Fantasy [Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra , Mangfred Honeck] [Reference: FR720] Review Honeck and his Pittsburgh players provide a highly distinguished performance of Tchaikovsky's Pathtique that competes with the finest. --MusicWeb, May'16 Any new disc from this particular team is usually an event, and this one keeps up the trend. It's unusual to find a leading conductor (Ivan Fischer is another) who doesn't seem set on setting down complete cycles of everything. Manfred Honeck's discography is highly selective, and all the better for it. His lucid sleeve note warns against exaggeration, excessiveness and impatience in Tchaikovsky, though this performance is among the most exciting and emotionally charged I've heard. Honeck's careful handling of Tchaikovsky's dynamic markings pays enormous dividends. Some passages exist on the very edge of audibility (like the descending bassoon line in the first movement, here played on bass clarinet) and the ffff explosions will rattle your sash windows. There's a roaring bass trombone pedal at the close of the first movement's collapse which is as good as that on Mravinsky's old Soviet LP, and this is the only recording I know where you can really clearly hear the rasping stopped horns at the Finale's climax. But the excellence of the playing and sound engineering never draws undue attention to itself what's compelling is the intelligence and musicality of the performance. The first movement's lyrical second theme really sings, and the development section rises to terrifying heights. The middle movements aren't underplayed, and the march's stealthy build up is truly electrifying. Tchaikovsky's pitch-black ending is overwhelming. Light relief of sorts comes in the form of a single-movement Rusalka Fantasy based on Dvork s opera, assembled by Honeck and the Czech composer Toms Ille. It works beautifully: the Song to the Moon transcribed idiomatically for solo violin, but this is more through-composed tone poem than pithy greatest hits selection. The opera's very distinctive Wagnerian flavour is undiluted. An outstanding disc, and not just for audiophiles. --ArtsDesk, 11/6/16 A beautifully shaped and phrased Pathetique. The Dvorak Rusalka Fantasy oozes drama. *** BBC Music Magazine, Oct'16 /// An impressive new Tchaikovsky 6, with a most intriguing coupling. --MusicWeb,Nov'16 Shipping Shipping is free for all customers in Australia. Your package will be safely taken care of & posted from England by means of Priority Airmail, which is air freighted to your nearest Australia Post Distribution Center (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, or Perth), from where they are delivered to your address by Australia Post. Returns and refunds We operate a 30 day money back guarantee. If you are unhappy with the product for whatever reason, please contact us to arrange a return and refund. As shipping costs are not retrievable, we are unable to refund shipping costs. Feedback We use an automated eBay feedback response system. If you are happy with the product, please leave positive feedback and we will automatically leave positive feedback for you. If you are unhappy with the transaction for any reason, please contact us first to resolve. If you do leave negative or neutral feedback you waive your rights for support regarding any problems with us and open yourself up for possible retaliatory negative feedback. Please avoid making negative feedback remarks, contact us first if you have any problems! We are here to help! Contact Us Please contact us via eBay messages if you have any questions and our Customer Service team will be happy to assist you with any queries. Thank you. Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Copyright © 2017 - 2024 The Pom Shop. All rights reserved.

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