This release, available digitally, on CD, and on a ten-inch LP, comes with reflections from Cleveland Orchestra conductor Franz Welser-Möst and others on the COVID-19 pandemic, at the beginning of which it was recorded. These are important documents of the time, and the situation had direct musical ramifications: the music was recorded before an audience of some 60 donors, imparting to Cleveland's Severance Hall a uniquely warm, lively acoustic. Noteworthy, too, is that the release and two companions mark the return to ...
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This release, available digitally, on CD, and on a ten-inch LP, comes with reflections from Cleveland Orchestra conductor Franz Welser-Möst and others on the COVID-19 pandemic, at the beginning of which it was recorded. These are important documents of the time, and the situation had direct musical ramifications: the music was recorded before an audience of some 60 donors, imparting to Cleveland's Severance Hall a uniquely warm, lively acoustic. Noteworthy, too, is that the release and two companions mark the return to recordings of the Cleveland Orchestra after a long hiatus. Such considerations aside, however, the album is simply an excellent example of Welser-Möst's distinctive style and, perhaps, of why his tenure in Cleveland has been a contentious one, with detractors answered by equally fervent defenders. His reading of the Schubert Symphony No. 9 in C major, D. 944 ("The Great"), resolutely avoids peroration, with every sharp accent filed down and dynamics kept quite strictly in check. One may...
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Add this copy of Schubert: Symphony in C Major ("the Great"); Krenek: to cart. $20.00, new condition, Sold by SmarterRat Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chagrin Falls, OH, UNITED STATES, published 2020 by The Cleveland Orchestra and Musical Arts Association.
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New/New. 2020 Audio CD. Recorded live at Severance Hall, March 2020. One disc. New in original oversized cardstock case. In original shrink wrap. 16 tracks. Hybrid SACD. Packed in an oversized (7.5" x 7.5") digipak; includes a 34-page insert with liner notes in English. Schubert: Symphony In C Major, 4 tracks, playing time, 57: 35. Krenek: Static And Ecstatic, 10 tracks, playing time 19: 30.
Add this copy of Schubert: Symphony in C Major, ('the Great')/... to cart. $48.84, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2020 by Cleveland Orchestra.
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