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Mendelssohn: Symphonies
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd March 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
This new release of Mendelssohn’s complete symphonies confirms the symbiotic relationship Järvi has forged with the orchestra, and is jam-packed with exciting, at times electrifying, music-making...Many...
Mendelssohn: Symphonies
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd March 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
This new release of Mendelssohn’s complete symphonies confirms the symbiotic relationship Järvi has forged with the orchestra, and is jam-packed with exciting, at times electrifying, music-making...Many...
About
"I don't think Mendelssohn gets the attention he deserves," said Paavo Järvi at the start of the 2020 -2021 season. Faced with this observation, he undertook to record a complete cycle of Mendelssohn's orchestral works with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra for his second season as Music Director. On the programme are the composer's five symphonies, including the second, known as 'Lobgesang', half-symphony, half-cantata, with the participation of the Zürcher Sing-Akademie, tenor Patrick Grahl and sopranos Chen Reiss and Marie Henriette Reinhold. Finally, A Midsummer Night's Dream , based on Shakespeare's play, the overture to which Mendelssohn composed when he was just 17, concludes this very fine cycle.
Contents and tracklist
- Katharina Konradi, Sophia Burgos
- Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
- Paavo Järvi
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Paavo Järvi conducts Mendelssohn symphonies
22nd Mar 2024
The Estonian conductor and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich present stylish, propulsive accounts of Mendelssohn's five symphonies, plus the incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week22nd March 2024
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Gramophone MagazineMay 2024Editor's Choice
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BBC Music MagazineJune 2024Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the YearWinners 2024
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International Classical Music Awards2025Nominated - Symphonic Music
June 2024
This new release of Mendelssohn’s complete symphonies confirms the symbiotic relationship Järvi has forged with the orchestra, and is jam-packed with exciting, at times electrifying, music-making...Many rival versions of this music exist, but it's difficult to think of any which surpass Järvi's for insight, immediacy and sheer enjoyment.
May 2024
Tonal warmth and, where needed, weight go hand in hand with that essential Mendelssohnian quality of airy lightness.
22nd March 2024
One of the most successful aspects of these performances is their rhythmic vitality. It can be easy particularly in the earlier symphonies to become too stodgy, but Järvi avoids this trap altogether. Another strength can be found in the slow movements, not least the rich, warm tone from the strings in the Adagio religioso section of the first part of Symphony No. 2, or the powerful intensity of the third movement of the Scottish.
