- Audio CD (19 Aug 2003)
- SPARS Code: DDD
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Live, Import
- Label: Naxos
- ASIN: B0000AVHC0
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 581,517 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Spoken Introduction By Georg Tintner |
| 2. Adagio - Allegro Vivace |
| 3. Adagio |
| 4. Allegro Vivace |
| 5. Finale: Allegro Con Spirito |
| 6. Spoken Introduction By Georg Tintner |
| 7. Sostenuto Assai |
| 8. Scherzo: Allegro Vivace |
| 9. Adagio Espressivo |
| 10. Allegro Molto Vivace |
Product Description
CD Composer: Beethoven/Schumann
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Thoroughly Interesting Performances
10 Sep 2004
By Patrick A Daley
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Format:Audio CD
These recordings hold my attention. It's as simple as that. Beethoven and Schumann composed great music. It doesn't require a big, famous orchestra to perform great music, and make great music. Symphony Nova Scotia has what it takes to bring out the composer's intentions.
These performances are clearly well rehearsed. Unlike many conductors, Maestro Tintner does not smooth everything over but keeps the notes distinct and brings out the musical accents, particularly in the Beethoven. This gives life and movement to his interpretation. His tempos and phrasing always seem perfect, and as always, Tintner has a supreme sense of the architecture of the music.
The Beethoven Fourth stands up well with recordings by Ansermet, Leibowitz, Karajan, and Steinberg. Oh yes! I like a big orchestra for Beethoven symphonies, but a smaller orchestra such as Symphony Nova Scotia can bring a clarity to the performance without loss of atmosphere. The romping rhythms of the Third Movement Allegro Vivace are as lively as with any recording I have ever heard.
The Schumann Second Symphony is again well performed and interesting. The famous third movement, the Adagio Espessivo, has a sense of longing even the wonderful recording with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra doesn't surpass. It is achingly beautiful. I would not want to give up "big band" recordings of the Schumann symphonies such as Haitink on Philips or Antoni Wit on Naxos, but Tintner's smaller scale version brings out rather different aspects of this symphony.
The recordings are really very good, well balanced and neither too clear nor over reverberant.
These performances are clearly well rehearsed. Unlike many conductors, Maestro Tintner does not smooth everything over but keeps the notes distinct and brings out the musical accents, particularly in the Beethoven. This gives life and movement to his interpretation. His tempos and phrasing always seem perfect, and as always, Tintner has a supreme sense of the architecture of the music.
The Beethoven Fourth stands up well with recordings by Ansermet, Leibowitz, Karajan, and Steinberg. Oh yes! I like a big orchestra for Beethoven symphonies, but a smaller orchestra such as Symphony Nova Scotia can bring a clarity to the performance without loss of atmosphere. The romping rhythms of the Third Movement Allegro Vivace are as lively as with any recording I have ever heard.
The Schumann Second Symphony is again well performed and interesting. The famous third movement, the Adagio Espessivo, has a sense of longing even the wonderful recording with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra doesn't surpass. It is achingly beautiful. I would not want to give up "big band" recordings of the Schumann symphonies such as Haitink on Philips or Antoni Wit on Naxos, but Tintner's smaller scale version brings out rather different aspects of this symphony.
The recordings are really very good, well balanced and neither too clear nor over reverberant.
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Atrocious Schumann and out of tune Beethoven...
3 Jun 2004
By A Customer
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
Surely the vaults could have been sifted through for more secure and adept interpretations with this conductor. Somehow the finale of the Schumann never gets into high gear, with the french horns blasting out with weird balances...these may be the fualt of the the recording team as well. On top the Scherzo is quite dull and the second section seems to get faster...most Austro -German schooled conductors will tend to let the tempi let up to create some release. There is another flaw in that the sound is occassionally coarse and unrefined with a dullness in the middle low register...
The Beethoven is really quite bad with some flat clarinet..and to top it off some of the textures are again bleak and dull....rather monochorome and ponderous ....once again tempi are a bit slow in the outer movements...
there are defintely better intepretations in this price range..go to Schumann with Berlin and Rafael Kubelik(passion is spades) from the 60s on DG.
Buy a super one with Vienna and Karl Bohm)(cheap)...unless of course you dislike Viennes oboes then go over to the Berlin Phil with Karajan or even Abbaddo....
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