Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra reviews
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8
Suk: Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Asrael' (Hrůša)
Richard Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder
Schubert: Symphony No. 9
Mozart: Symphonies Nos 40 & 41
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.
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 (Bavarian/Jansons)
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
Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor 'From the New World'