Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 5 Choir Orchestral & Concertos Chandos

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“This is a worthy conclusion to an unquestionably significant and timely project. Beyond its appeal to Lisztians and students of Romanticism, Volume 5 of the Symphonic Poems will afford tremendous pleasure to lovers of fine orchestral playing. Most highly recommended. Patrick Rucker

International Record Review - July/August 2009

“ …… I cannot praise his [Noseda) Dante Symphony highly enough, and both orchestra and choir really do themselves proud-as do the Chandos engineers”

American Record Guide - September/October 2009

“Liszt’s mastery at musical depictions of dramatic fury is borne out by this arresting performance of this two-part but multifaceted symphony inspired by Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio, which comes as the fifth volume of Chando’s survey of his symphonic poems. There are intimations of Paradiso, too, in the passages of more cosseting, spiritual aspiration, Gianandrea Noseda drawing his sizeable forces into a tableau that is full of incident, whether serenely contemplative or buffeted by the whirlwinds of eternal damnation.”

The Telegraph - May 2009

The fifth volume in Gianandrea Noseda’s authoritative cycle with the BBC Philharmonic, this is also the most technically and interpretively exacting programme. Textural precision is foremost in ‘Deux Légendes’, with an exhilarating wash of low brass, low woodwind and frenzied strings in ‘St Francois de paule marchant sur les flots’. Most impressive, however, is Nodesda’s navigation of the bombastic colourations of ‘Eine symphonie zu dantes Divina Comdedia.

The Independent - May 2009

Once again Chandos has done the orchestra and conductor proud in a recorded sound of a special brilliance and transparency. Bryce Morrison

Gramophone - August 2009

This is volume 5 of the series, which has been a real voyage of discovery for me.

Liverpool Evening News

In its 24/96 download guise, this is outstanding - thrilling dynamic range, precise but atmospheric three-dimensional imagery, and a real acoustic presence. The orchestra seems to 'breathe' in a palpable reverberant space. The wide dynamic and a suitably demonic response from the orchestra in the more pictorial sections of the Inferno make for an ear-opening experience - I found myself trawling the web peering at Dore's Dante engravings! One realises too just how much Hollywood film composers learnt from these and other 19th century symphonic poems. (It's not Liszt's fault that some of his 'horrors of hell' effects sound a little cliched now; you can even find 'haunted house' effects in Schubert's d887 String Quartet). No, it's probably not 'great music' but superbly executed here, and including a wonderful bonus in 'St Francois de Paule Walks upon the Waves' effectively an 8-minute crescendo based on a repeated 8-note phrase, climaxing splendidly!

J Wilson

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