Mendelssohn - Complete String Symphonies
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Label: Orfeo
Cat No: C763093
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 3
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 11th January 2010
Contents
Artists
Stuttgarter KammerorchesterConductor
Michael HofstetterAbout
This new complete recording of these works features the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. Founded more than 50 years ago, the SCO has gradually built up a repertory that extends from the Baroque to the present day, thereby guaranteeing a flexible and keenly differentiated kind of playing, due not least to the ensemble's principal conductor, Michael Hofstetter, who is likewise at home in a wide variety of styles.
The verve of the first symphony's opening Allegro is maintained throughout all the fast movements, while the slow movements are characterised by their gently flowing cantabile lines, which extend to the quotations of folksongs found in the two 'Swiss' symphonies. The last two symphonies are notable for their contrapuntal procedures and polyphonic accomplishment. Here the composer and his interpreters have found an appropriately playful approach to complex fugal subjects and developments. In this way this set of youthful works is brought to a suitably masterly conclusion.
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