Sándor Végh Conducts the Camerata Salzburg

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Label
Capriccio
Release Date
July 1, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Bela Bartok, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Joseph Haydn, Arnold Schonberg, Franz Schubert
    • PERFORMER
      Camerata Academica Des Mozarteums Salzburg, Soloists Of International Musicians Seminar
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 01, 2022
    • UPC
      845221074221
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      C7422
    • LABEL
      Capriccio
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      6
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131 (arr. for string orchestra)

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg

      Conductor: Sándor Végh

    2. Grosse Fuge in B-Flat Major, Op. 133 (arr. for string orchestra)

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg

      Conductor: Sándor Végh

    3. The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross, Op. 51, Hob.III:50-56 (version for string orchestra)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg

      Conductor: Sándor Végh

    4. Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg

      Conductor: Sándor Végh

    5. Symphony No. 6 in C Major, D. 589

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg

      Conductor: Sándor Végh

    6. Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759, "Unfinished"

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg

      Conductor: Sándor Végh

    7. Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944, "Great"

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg

      Conductor: Sándor Végh

    8. String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 111 (arr. for string orchestra)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg

      Conductor: Sándor Végh

    9. Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4 (version for string orchestra)

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg

      Conductor: Sándor Végh

    10. Divertimento, BB 118

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg

      Conductor: Sándor Végh

    11. 3 Sätze aus der Lyrischen Suite (3 Pieces from the Lyric Suite) (version for string orchestra)

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg

      Conductor: Sándor Végh

    12. Apollon musagète, "Apollo"

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg

      Conductor: Sándor Végh


Sándor Végh, the “arch musician”, was one of those few conductors who possessed that musical je ne sais quoi. Whatever he touched – especially with his Salzburg Camerata – it was always musical, light, exciting. Showing that in music the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that phrasing and sparkle go a long way, he made even the least of Mozart’s Gebrauchsmusik sound like works of flaming genius. This box proves, if it needed proving, that these skills applied to other music, too, from the rest of the First Viennese School to the Second Viennese School and beyond. His Schubert Symphonies are pure classical joy, his Transfigured Night late-Romantic gorgeousness-become-manifest, his Bartók an idiomatically simpatico dreamboat.

REVIEWS:

It is twenty-five years since Sándor Végh’s death and this commemorative box set forms a fitting tribute to him, ranging across music from the Classical era to the mid-20C. Capriccio here presents eight composers on six discs providing six and a half hours of music as testimony to his versatility and artistry.

-- MusicWeb International

Even with such frequently recorded works as those compiled in this edition—they are reissues, of course—one cannot help but be interested in these interpretations, which show a variety of works that Sándor Végh enjoyed conducting.

The Schubert symphonies are particularly well performed, with Végh conducting them in a spiritedly upbeat manner and with incisive rhythm.

Also noteworthy are the recordings of Haydn’s Seven Last Words, Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night, and the works by Bartok and Stravinsky. This begins with a convincing choice of tempo, the ideal breath impulse, the emphasis and is furthered by the care of the tone, the spontaneous way in which the music is played together and an exemplary transparency.

-- Pizzicato