Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic' (with works by Stravinsky and Webern)
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic' (with works by Stravinsky and Webern)
Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
[ Accentus Music / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 25 August 2011
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The LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY was founded in 2004 by Pierre Boulez in conjunction with the Festival's executive director Michael Haefliger. Since then, some 130 highly gifted young musicians from all corners of the globe have gathered together every summer in Lucerne. Working together in daily rehearsals, workshops, and lessons, the participants are trained in basic skills for performing contemporary music. The teaching staff is made up of members of the Parisian Ensemble intercontemporain, one of the most celebrated ensembles in the field of modern music.
The 2010 Academy repertoire was recorded live during rehearsals and concerts of the Academy in summer 2010. The double CD is the only audio recording of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Orchestra under the baton of renowned maestro Pierre Boulez - available worldwide.
In the sense of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY's tradition to study contemporary scores and modern masterpieces of the early 20th century this audio recording offers Anton Webern's Passacaglia for Orchestra, Op. 1 and Variations for Orchestra, Op. 30, Igor Stravinsky's Le Chant du Rossignol and is rounded off by Gustav Mahler's Sixth Symphony in A minor.
"The Nightingale (wrongly titled in the sleeve notes) receives a glittering account - not sumptuous exactly, but dashingly dramatic and vividly coloured." (The Guardian)
"Tender and affectionate, with wonderful gradations of truly soft playing leading to a genuinely moving climax that never becomes overwrought, this manifests a glowing tribute to the subtlety and concentration of these gifted musicians. Much more needs to be heard from them, especially given the superb recording." (International Record Review)
"[The Mahler] all starts trenchantly enough, allowing the nightmare of the first movement development and its gracious idyll [to] take wing..The first disc is gorgeously brilliantly programmed and gorgeously played" (BBC Music Magazine)
Tracks:
Mahler:
Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic'
Stravinsky:
Le Chant du Rossignol
Webern:
Passacaglia for Orchestra, Op. 1
Variations for Orchestra, Op. 30
