Special offer. Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski
Janowski plays them instead for creamy tonal beauty and perfection of balance, for refined textures and limpid transparency, where instruments subtly peek in and out of the texture, and where...
Special offer. Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski
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Janowski plays them instead for creamy tonal beauty and perfection of balance, for refined textures and limpid transparency, where instruments subtly peek in and out of the texture, and where...
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I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings upon Arrival in the Country. Allegro ma non troppo
Track length11:35
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March/April 2020
Janowski plays them instead for creamy tonal beauty and perfection of balance, for refined textures and limpid transparency, where instruments subtly peek in and out of the texture, and where everyone is dancing. Nothing ever blares, not even the trumpets. The WDR musicians play with first-rate concentration and lovely sonority.
January 2020
In a crowded field this must be among the most literal-minded readings on record – a compliment, so far as I’m concerned, to the musicians of the Cologne orchestra and their ability to play what’s in front of them without a ghost of what Mahler meant when he dismissed tradition as laziness.
9th February 2020
An exceptional disc: I don’t think I’ve heard a more powerful, inexorable Fifth. It renews the work. The woodwind is wonderfully vivid (beautiful playing by the important first bassoon). The Pastoral is hardly less fine.
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