Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra reviews

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra reviews

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Mariss Jansons
 (BR Klassik)
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Suk: Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Asrael' (Hrůša)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Jakub Hrůša (BR Klassik)
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Richard Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder

Diana Damrau (soprano); Helmut Deutsch (piano); Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Mariss Jansons (Erato)
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Schubert: Symphony No. 9

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Mariss Jansons (BR Klassik)
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Mozart: Symphonies Nos 40 & 41

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Herbert Blomstedt (BR Klassik)
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Widmann's 'bold and brilliant' new viola concerto

The cover is eye-catching: viola player Antoine Tamestit caught mid-scream, mouth wide open. There is a musical point to the image too. In Jörg Widmann’s 2015 Viola Concerto, written for Tamestit, the soloist becomes a theatrical figure who roams around the orchestra, leaving the usual spot near the conductor. And Widmann, actually a clarinettist by training, fully exploits the viola’s capabilities. Extended techniques – waving the bow through the air, tapping the wood, and yes, even shouting – turn the viola into a one-man-band.

 

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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 (Bavarian/Jansons)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Mariss Jansons (BR Klassik)
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Conductor Mariss Jansons’s stunning parting gift of Shostakovich

‘If you want a testimony to what it was we lost when Mariss Jansons died, listen to this disc’, writes Stephen Johnson. ‘It’s a stunningly shaped interpretation. At every level this performance feels lived-in. If you want a suitable monument to a great conductor then look no further.’

 

Shostakovich
Symphony No. 10
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Mariss Jansons
BR Klassik 900185   53:48 mins

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Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor 'From the New World'

 

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Dvorak • Smetana

Berlin PO, Bavarian RSO, Boston SO/Rafael Kubelík (DG)
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