Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 4 "Italian" & 5 "Reformation"
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Composer: Felix MendelssohnConductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Performer: Wiener Philharmoniker
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-03-09
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
- Allegro vivace
- Andante con moto
- Con modo moderato
- Saltarello, Presto
- Andante - Allegro con fuoco
- Allegro vivace
- Andante
- Ein' veste Burg ist unser Gott - Andante con moto - Allegro vivace - Allegro maestoso - Vivace
- Movements 2 (Andante con moto), 3 (Menuetto. Con moto grazioso), 4 (Sa
- Movements 2 (Andante con moto), 3 (Menuetto. Con moto grazioso), 4 (Sa
- Movements 2 (Andante con moto), 3 (Menuetto. Con moto grazioso), 4 (Sa
Music reviews of Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 4 "Italian" & 5 "Reformation"
Music Review: Instructive musicology, second-rate music-making
Rating: 3 Stars
In every respect John Eliot Gardiner has proven himself a trustworthy, dedicated musicologist, but for the brief period that DG allowed him to conduct a non-period orchestra, his musicianship as a conductor flagged. I've heard him live with the London Sym., and my imression was the same as hearing him on CD with the Vienna Phil. Gardiner beats time and makes a few large expressive gestures, but on the whole the great Romantic classics are beyond him. Hene this briks, uneventful "Italian" and faceless, bland "Reformation." The audience at Amazon takes all bad reviews as moral failings, not realizing that it's instructive to know when music-making falls short of high quality. On the surfae the Vienna Phil. plays gorgeously, but Gardiner doesn't touch the heart and soul of these works.
Description of Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 4 "Italian" & 5 "Reformation"
Mendelssohn was not like Beethoven or Verdi--his second thoughts were not always better than his first. In fact, not one of the changes he made in his 1834 revision to the Italian Symphony--recorded here for the first time, alongside the original version of 1833--strikes me as an improvement; indeed, the later effort sounds more like a first draft, thinner, more repetitive, melodically less engaging. Nonetheless, it's good to have the composer's refashioning of the score on disc, especially when it's performed as confidently as here, if only to give us a renewed appreciation of what he achieved the first time around. For the familiar version of the Italian Symphony is certainly a masterpiece. And the performance it receives here from the Vienna Philharmonic and John Eliot Gardiner is one of the best currently available: polished and energetic, with plenty of the elegance one expects in Mendelssohn, even when he's at his most animated. The account of the Reformation Symphony, recorded live, is marginally less successful as an interpretation, though the orchestra's playing leaves little to be desired. --Ted LibbeyGeneral CDs
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