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Mahler - Symphony No.4 | Linn CKD438

Mahler - Symphony No.4

Label: Linn

Cat No: CKD438

Barcode: 0691062043823

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 8th July 2013

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Contents

Artists

Sonia Grane (soprano)
Royal Academy of Music Ensemble

Conductor

Trevor Pinnock

Works

Debussy, Claude

Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un faune (arr. chamber ensemble)

Mahler, Gustav

Symphony no.4 in G major (arr. E Stein)

Artists

Sonia Grane (soprano)
Royal Academy of Music Ensemble

Conductor

Trevor Pinnock

About

Historical performance pioneer, Trevor Pinnock, conducts the Royal Academy of Music Ensemble in revealing chamber arrangements of Mahler's most frequently performed symphony and Debussy's Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, on its debut recording for Linn.

Arranged for Schoenberg's 1918 Society for Private Musical Performances, these reductions were designed to highlight the fresh perspective a stripped-back orchestration could offer the listener.

With this recording, Trevor and the Academy launch a series of performances and recordings which are retrospectively reigniting Schoenberg's vision of performing chamber reductions of symphonic repertoire, including newly commissioned arrangements for this series.

Erwin Stein's visionary transformation of Mahler's neo-classicist symphony is for fifteen players and soprano (Sonia Grane). A Mahler symphony of more modest proportions, it lends itself perfectly to a chamber arrangement.

Benno Sachs' re-orchestration of Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune retains many of the sounds of Debussy's original, using the span of the piano to fill out gaps in the texture, and the harmonium to sustain missing parts in the winds, additions which add much interest and afford a new coherence and sensuality to the melodic line.

Trevor Pinnock is known worldwide as a harpsichordist and conductor who pioneered performance on historical instruments with his own orchestra, The English Concert.

Trevor Pinnock communicated energy, enthusiasm and natural phrasing to the RAM students. He brought a beauty to the Mahler.’ - BachTrack.com

Pinnock’s long experience as a chamber music performer informed his every interpretative choice, from the seamless way in which urgency melted into momentary repose, to the great adrenaline rush of the finale, with its hair-trigger attacks.’ - Chicago Tribune

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