Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie Orchestral & Concertos LSO Live

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Classics Today (France)

’The mountain looming through the murk at the beginning, and its splendour as the sun hits the peak, are both peerlessly handled by Haitink’

BBC Music Magazine

’Mastery is the word. This depiction of a mountain climb achieves the peak of orchestral expertise it has immense grandeur.’

The Times

‘While the splendour of the LSO’s playing these days is no surprise, it’s a remarkable phenomenon even so. Haitink’s interpretation allows full scope for grand effects while keeping a tight rein on the works unfolding progress’

Classic FM Magazine

Editor’s Choice ’Another of those superb LSO Live recordings gloriously atmospheric 5.1-channel DSD sound The finest detail, colour and texture is apparent among the massed forces the big, rich bass is just as thrilling as the scintillating resolution in the upper frequencies. The brass, in particular, sounds quite amazing’

‘no one has quite Haitink’s sense of the piece as a rational symphonic argument Admirers should not hesitate to acquire an archetypal example of Haitink’s unobtrusive podium manner’

Gramophone

CD of the Week
‘Even among some of the finest and classic recordings this new one has something special about it. Haitink and the LSO offer us a reading that unfolds with an almost effortless logic … a fine recording’

BBC Radio 3 - CD Review

No 2 in Top10 CD’s of 2010

Ionarts

***** ’He [Haitink] penetrates to the core of the musical substance and views the Alpine Symphony as a coherent structure rather than a random sequence The orchestra rises magnificently to the challenge of this climax, but the impact is all the more thrilling and awe-inspiring through having been so shrewdly approached via the pastures, undergrowth and glaciers of the preceding scenes. Haitink draws out lucid instrumental detail from Strauss’s complex combinations of timbres, establishing apt colours in the summoning of atmosphere, dramatically so in the storm and with subtle perception throughout. Equally, his natural feel for the music’s fluctuating pulse lends this momentous journey an ineluctable sense of purpose, direction and exhilaration.’

Geoffrey Norris

The Telegraph - March 2010

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