Brahms - Symphony no.4, Alto Rhapsody etc
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Label: Phi
Cat No: LPH025
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 21st April 2017
Contents
Artists
Ann Hallenberg (mezzo)Collegium Vocale Gent
Orchestre des Champs-Elysees
Conductor
Philippe HerrewegheWorks
Alto Rhapsody, op.53Schicksalslied, op.54
Symphony no.4 in E minor, op.98
Artists
Ann Hallenberg (mezzo)Collegium Vocale Gent
Orchestre des Champs-Elysees
Conductor
Philippe HerrewegheAbout
Johannes Brahms was at heart a singer. His entire oeuvre is underpinned by poetry and text, indeed even by rhetoric, following on in organic succession from ‘early’ music, notably the music of Schütz and Bach, of which he had a profound knowledge and whose tradition he was bent on continuing, to the horror of the modernists of his day. In the twentieth century, the world of the orchestra and that of the voice often followed different paths. But, contrary to this tendency, the trajectories of the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées and Collegium Vocale Gent have always been closely linked.
In the first place, this musical complementarity has enabled us to mount and record a considerable number of masterpieces of the repertoire with a deep-rooted shared aesthetic. But above all, thanks to an assiduous process of collaboration, the choir of Collegium Vocale has applied itself to the task of incorporating into its approach vertical, rhythmic precision and true, non-tempered intonation, two of the qualities to which the orchestra aspires, while the preponderance of text and vocal phrasing and articulation, indeed even pronunciation, has profoundly influenced the discourse of the orchestra, permeating to the very core of its instrumental technique. These are the bases of a task we dream of continuing for the next half-century."
Philippe Herreweghe
This disc, recorded on period instruments under the masterly direction of Philippe Herreweghe, is released to coincide with a double anniversary: as a prelude to the Flemish conductor’s seventieth birthday, it also celebrates the twenty-fifth year of existence of one of his favourite ensembles: the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées.
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