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Verklärte Nacht
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Reviews (6)
The guardian
d. 7. Jan. 2021
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Erica Jeal
d. 7. Jan. 2021
"[The Schoenberg] in its orchestral version, is the pivotal piece on this recording, and it finds Edward Gardner drawing playing of sumptuous intensity but also ravishing delicacy from the strings of the BBC Symphony Orchestra ... But it's the rest of the repertoire that makes this disc especially interesting ... Gardner always seems to bring out the best in Skelton ... A disc of discoveries that put Schoenberg's work in intriguing context".
MusicWeb international
2021 January
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Roy Westbrook
2021 January
"Recommended: Here is an intriguing piece of programme-building around a key work of fin-de-siècle Vienna. Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht, in its full string orchestra version, is the departure point and the only well-known work here ... This is a most recommendable disc, and one with a unique programme ... The value of the disc lies in the context it gives to the best-known work ... Stuart Skelton is in very good voice ... bringing real feeling, even identification, to these pieces. Gardner here continues to demonstrate his mastery of the musical style of the period, as shown before in his Chandos discs of early Schoenberg with his Bergen forces".
Presto classical
d. 1. Jan. 2021
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Katherine Cooper
d. 1. Jan. 2021
"Recording of the week: As his recent recording of Peter Grimes with Gardner attested, Skelton does anguished delirium very well, though if anything he sounds in healthier voice here ... Gardner's pacing of the big climaxes is once again absolutely spot-on, and the Chandos engineers work their usual wonders in providing ample space for the sound to glow or blaze as required".
BBC music magazine
2021 February
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Paul Riley (musikanmelder)
2021 February
"Across the programme Edward Gardner is preternaturally attentive, nailing the volatile blend of schmaltz and suffering that underpins the Lehár; and cloaking the moonbathing opening of the Fried with a velvety sumptuousness that prefigures the ensuing vocal refulgence ... Adventurously conceived, and with the BBC Symphony Orchestra on top form, this is a stimulating disc from first note to last".
Fono Forum
2021 April
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Götz Thieme
2021 April
"Über Schönbergs gleichnamiges Streichsextett und die berühmtere, hier vorliegende spätere Fassung für Streichorchester ist alles gesagt - Edward Gardner und die Streicher des BBC Symphony Orchestra fächern die vorhaltsüchtige Fin-de-siècle-Partitur mit luzidem Zugriff auf, da gehen keine Nebenstimmen durch romantische Trunkenheit verloren ... Nicht minder beglückend ein Nebenwerk von Franz Lehár, die Tondichtung 'Fieber" für Tenor und grosses Orchester, entstanden 1915. Der Operettenkönig komponiert den Fiebertraum eines Soldaten auf dem Sterbelager mit der bitteren Härte eines Zemlinsky".
The gramophone
2021 February
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Peter Quantrill
2021 February
"Schoenberg's tone poem is a model of discretion, especially in a performance such as this one that seems so tied to the details and contours of Dehmel's text. The woman's vulnerability is caught by Bergen's solo strings as touchingly as the man's broad reassurances are underplayed, and the naturalistic touches of their moonlit rapture come over with a delicacy missed by deeper-piled orchestral recordings".