Goldmark: Symphonic Poems, Vol. 2

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[Im Frühling] sets the tone for an album packed with colourful, melodious Romantic orchestral music by (to paraphrase Richard Strauss) a really first-class second-rate composer...I enjoyed the... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2021 More…

Release Date: 30th Oct 2020
Catalogue No: 555251-2
Label: CPO
Length: 76 minutes

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Goldmark: Overture: Im Fruhling (In the Spring), Op. 36

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Bamberger Symphoniker
Fabrice Bollon

Goldmark: Zrinyi

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Bamberger Symphoniker
Fabrice Bollon

Goldmark: Overture: In Italien, Op. 49

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Bamberger Symphoniker
Fabrice Bollon

Goldmark: Götz von Berlichingen: Vorspiel

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Bamberger Symphoniker
Fabrice Bollon

Goldmark: Aus Jugendtagen

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Bamberger Symphoniker
Fabrice Bollon

Goldmark: Wintermärchen: Vorpsiel

Work length12:52

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Fabrice Bollon

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Carl Goldmark was not a symphonist – and that is no secret. His few attempts in this field – an early work, in part lost, and his second symphony, his op. 35, did not add up to much, and the Ländliche Hochzeit, to which the generic label 'symphony' was assigned, does nothing more than confirm that this master of orchestral colors was above all good at atmospheric and character pictures. Goldmark very evidently needed a programmatic or dramatic 'pretext' in order to rise up to his creative best, which is why he was able to gain the greatest fame and to score his most important successes with his stage works (tops here: Die Königin von Saba) as well as with his concert overtures. As he himself said, a change of milieu was good for his powers of inspiration, and so he repeatedly sought out extremes while selecting his materials and subjects. Accordingly, this new album with the Bamberg Symphony and the conductor Fabrice Bollon is also a 'composite': it complements Vol. 1 (555 160-2) with a program including the three mirthful overtures Im Frühling (In the Spring), In Italien (In Italy), and Aus Jugendtagen (From the Days of Youth), the preludes to his last two operas, Götz von Berlichingen and Ein Wintermärchen (A Winter’s Tale), and a special rarity in the form of the symphonic tone picture Zrinyi – a musical monument to this Hungarian-Croatian national hero and a work with which Goldmark wanted to express his gratitude to his home Magyar territory.

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February 2021

[Im Frühling] sets the tone for an album packed with colourful, melodious Romantic orchestral music by (to paraphrase Richard Strauss) a really first-class second-rate composer...I enjoyed the previous album in this series and praised Bollon’s taut, energised readings and the ‘enthusiasm, understanding and collective virtuosity’ of the Bambergers. I’m glad to say that the same applies here, and that the quality of the music might be even higher.

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