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Happy #NewReleaseFriday! Get some #FridayFeeling with Franz Welser-Möst and friends. Usually I just watch the Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert on TV, but 2023's was such fun that I'm galloping, waltzing and marching on my #NewReleases playlist too!
Plus a Frenchman conducts Franck in Frankfurt, Poulenc's delightful Sinfonietta and more.
I've cleared out my playlist ready for my 2023 choices. My 2022 Records Of The Week now have a new home.
@classicalmusic @symphonies
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Haydn: Complete Symphonies Vol. 27
Banish New Year blues with high-spirited Haydn! This Heidelberg cycle is as perky, punchy and playful as ever in irrepressible early symphonies by the father of the genre.
Rapier-sharp strings and boisterous brass blow post-Christmas cobwebs away. Expressive andantes really let the music breathe and minuets are delightfully danceable.
Get invigorated by my #RecordOfTheWeek playlist. https://spoti.fi/3GS0cNq
Also on this week's playlist: the latest instalment of the always-invigorating Heidelberg Haydn symphony cycle, Malcolm Arnold from my wonderul local orchestra the BBC Philharmonic, and music by Norwegian Romantic Ole Hjellemo (1873-1938) who will be a new discovery for me.
Happy #NewReleaseFriday! I've long wished for someone to record the four #symphonies by Grażyna Bacewicz. At last my wish is coming true thanks to CPO, whose catalogue is a treasure trove of rediscovered repertoire. Check out Vol. 1 on my playlist of the week's #symphony and #orchestral #NewReleases, updated every Friday https://spoti.fi/3GJ8V4o
#DiscoveryOfTheWeek W. H. Reed is best-known as Elgar's biographer but this lovely recording reveals an excellent composer in his own right. These quartets are gorgeous - passionately expressive, harmonically imaginative and full of fine tunes. A revelation!
#SymphonistsChoice2022 #1
#RecordOfTheYear
After a life devoted to early music Jordi Savall turned his hands to Mozart and Beethoven symphonies. Now here's Schubert that stirs my senses and rouses my emotions like no other recording I know.
His orchestra also sound unlike any other, adding menace to the darkness and pain of the Unfinished and so much rustic brio to the Great that I wanted it to go on forever.
Great music making from a great musician.
Frédérique Reibell