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Sony has found performers who are both able and willing: Tafelmusik’s playing is predictably immaculate, and the Tölz Boys Choir (with fresh-voiced tenors and basses) is radically more accomplished than many all-male groups. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The big, set-piece choruses are very exciting, though some may find Weil’s speeds shockingly fast, and the impact would have been greater had the balance favoured the choir just a touch more. 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Like the composer's own performances, Walter's are swift and light, which works wonderfully well in Don Juan, a bit less so in Death and Transfiguration, which could use more sheer intensity at the climaxes. Throughout, the playing is lively and comfortably at home in the music. The Dvorák encore is nice to have, but hardly necessary, and it's sonically inferior to the otherwise perfectly fine mono engineering in evidence elsewhere. Now available \"on demand\" from Arkivmusic.com, this is a disc of genuine historical significance for both Strauss and Barber collectors. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e --David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sony Masterworks","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46030095155434,"sku":"074646446621","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"beethoven-piano-concerto-no-5-violin-concerto-262156","title":"Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5, Violin Concerto \/ Beths, Etc","description":"BEETHOVEN: PIANO CONCERTO NO 5","brand":"Sony Masterworks","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46030103347434,"sku":"074646336526","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"haydn-symphonies-50-64-65-bruno-weil-262000","title":"Haydn: Symphonies 50, 64 \u0026 65 \/ Bruno Weil, Tafelmusik","description":"\u003cp\u003eSelections recorded March 27-29 and April 1-3, 1993.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sony Masterworks","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46030123892970,"sku":"074645398525","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/4318052-3139720.jpg?v=1778207292"},{"product_id":"haydn-symphonies-nos-88-89-90-weil-262201","title":"Haydn: Symphonies Nos 88, 89 \u0026 90 \/ Weil, Tafelmusik","description":"HAYDN: SYMPHONIES NOS 88, 89 \u0026amp;","brand":"Sony Masterworks","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46030385119466,"sku":"074646625323","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"bruno-walter-edition-schumann-symphony-no-3-262193","title":"Bruno Walter Edition - Schumann: Symphony No 3;  Beethoven","description":"SCHUMANN: SYMPHONY NO. 3 RHENI","brand":"Sony Masterworks","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46034140856554,"sku":"074646448823","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"haydn-missa-sancti-bernardi-de-offida-weil-262204","title":"Haydn: Missa Sancti Bernardi De Offida \/ Weil, Tafelmusik","description":"\u003cb\u003eUnder Bruno Weil’s spirited direction both the Tolz Boys’ Choir, with their bright-edged, slightly breathy tone, and the crack period orchestra, Tafelmusik, are in first-rate form. These works receive energetic, uplifting readings, with brisk tempos, fresh, incisive choral work.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A special attraction for Haydn lovers here is the first-ever recording of the unfinished ode Mare Clausum, commissioned in 1794 by Haydn’s colourful English friend Lord Abingdon, and evidently abandoned when the nobleman was imprisoned for libel. The gauche, crudely chauvinistic verses, trumpeting England’s sovereignty of the sea, should make the most hardened Europhobe blush. But the two numbers Haydn completed are worthy of his ripest style: a noble F major bass aria with rich, inventive writing for woodwind, authoritatively sung by Harry van der Kamp (despite a hint of rawness on the top notes), and a D major chorus whose verve and contrapuntal power presage the late Masses and oratorios.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Under Bruno Weil’s spirited direction both the Tolz Boys’ Choir, with their bright-edged, slightly breathy tone, and the crack period orchestra, Tafelmusik, are on first-rate form here and throughout this enterprisingly planned disc. It includes the thrilling, majestic late Te Deum and the motet Insanae et vanae curae, adapted from a ‘storm’ chorus in the oratorio Il ritorno di Tobia and foreshadowing in its D minor apocalyptic grandeur the Mozart of Don Giovanni and the Requiem. Weil’s reading is eagerly responsive to the music’s drama, with taut rhythms, sharp dynamic contrasts and keen instrumental detailing; and he maintains the initial pulse through the tranquil D major sections, where most conductors I’ve heard slow up markedly, to the detriment of structural cohesion. Between these masterpieces the four little Motetti de Venerabili from the 1750s (another recorded first) inevitably sound tame, for all their easy tunefulness and skilful marshalling of rococo cliche.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The largest work on the disc is, of course, the so-called Heiligmesse, first of the six magnificent Mass settings of Haydn’s old age. Like the shorter pieces, this receives an energetic, uplifting reading, with brisk tempos, fresh, incisive choral work (real exhilaration in, say, the closing fugue of the Gloria) and strongly etched orchestral colours (clarinets, trumpets and timpani well in the picture). In one or two sections Weil can drive too hard – the gravely contrapuntal “Gratias”, for instance, which has an inappropriate restlessness (and where Harry van der Kamp sometimes overwhelms the excellent boy soloists). And I would have liked more tender, graceful shaping in the exquisite canonic “Et incarnatus est” (which follows the opening section of the Credo after too short a pause – something I noticed elsewhere in these performances), and the Benedictus, where Weil plays up the march background rather at the expense of the music’s mystery and spirituality. But there is no doubting the vigour and joyfulness of Weil’s reading, nor the skill and commitment of his forces. Quite apart from its pioneering value, this is an inspiriting Haydn collection whose appeal is enhanced by vivid sound and a typically enthusiastic, informative note from the composer’s alter ego, H. C. 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The orchestra sounds notably fine and Walter’s direction retains a grand seigniorial approach, one that will perhaps disappoint those who might have missed the spirit of his fiery wartime performances with this orchestra, a time when he seemed on occasion hell bent on recreating Toscanini’s sweeping dynamism. 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To have Walter's accounts of the An der schönen, blauen Donau, the G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald and the Kaiser waltzes is treasure indeed, especially as the readings are so idiomatic. However, the conductor reserves his special affection for Wiener Blut, the introduction coaxed with loving care, the violins ravishing. In addition there are volatile performances of the Fledermaus and Zigenunerbaron Overtures. These Strauss items are coupled with four of Brahms's Hungarian Dances (Nos. 1, 3, 10 and 17). They are given a Viennese air and are filled out with charming detail. The concert ends with Walter's 1941 version of Smetana's \"Vltava\" (Ma vlast). This opens delicately and the moonlight sequence is also quite lovely. Unfortunately the restricted range of the recording prevents the St John's rapids episode from providing any sense of dynamic expansion, although the work's closing section comes off well.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e -- Gramophone [8\/1995]\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sony Masterworks","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46039897735402,"sku":"074646446720","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"bruno-walter-edition-brahms-symphony-4-tragic-262182","title":"Bruno Walter Edition - Brahms Symphony 4, Tragic Overture, Schicksalslied","description":"The Columbia Symphony may not have been a first-class orchestra, but Bruno Walter trained to do the right things, and it responded with first-class accounts of the Brahms symphonies. While there are instances of less-than-crack ensemble, there is also some very fine first-desk playing, and the performances as a whole are marked by a natural feeling of movement, phrasing, and expression. Walter’s approach to the music is kindly, caring, wonderfully whole – sunny but not overly brilliant, warm but not overly heated, sincere but not overly impassioned. Anyone who thinks that means the conductor was slow, shapeless, or indulgent should listen. There is thrust here, and plenty of momentum. 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