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R. Strauss & Copland / Stamp, Academy of London, Royal Northern Sinfonia
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R. Strauss & Copland / Stamp, Academy of London, Royal Northern Sinfonia

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Details

Composer
COPLAND STRAUSS
Artist
Ottensamer, Turnovsky, Academy Of London, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Stamp
Format
CD
Label
Signum Classics
Released
Jan 01, 2021
Catalog #
SIGCD654
UPC
635212065426

About

The four works on this release, all composed in the 1940s, embrace the lingering end of one musical tradition and the vigorous upsurge of another. Mellifluous, retrospective and playful, the Duet Concertino and Prelude to Capriccio were works from Richard Strauss’s final phase – an old man’s refuge from the barbarism of war and its aftermath. What the public thought of them was incidental, even irrelevant. In the same decade, Aaron Copland and other younger American composers were reaching out, via radio, recordings and film, to a new mass audience. The European influence of Appalachian Spring and the Clarinet Concerto, though inescapable, was minimized in a populist, vernacular idiom that absorbed folk music and jazz.

Richard Stamp unites some of the finest instrumentalists from the UK and Europe in these performances – featuring celebrated orchestras the Academy of London and the Royal Northern Sinfonia with renowned Austrian soloists Ernst Ottensamer and Stepan Turnovsky. Stepan Turnovsky joined the Vienna State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in 1978 and has kept the position of Solo Bassoonist there since 1985, performing with conductors such as Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Karl Böhm, Carlos Kleiber amongst many others. The late Ernst Ottensamer was a former principal clarinettist at the Vienna Philharmonic and an avid performer of chamber music – founding numerous ensembles and collaborating with musicians such as Sir Simon Rattle, André Previn, Daniel Barenboim and Rudolf Buchbinder amongst others. In 2005 he found a clarinet trio with his sons Daniel and Andreas Ottensamer – themselves the Principal Clarinettists of the Vienna Philharmonic and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras. This present performance represents his last concerto recording.

REVIEW:

It is for the two Strauss performances that I can offer an enthusiastic thumbs up. Ernest Ottensamer died suddenly in 2017 at the age of 61, and the Copland was his last concerto recording. That, too, adds to the value of this release. Signum deserves gratitude for saving all four performances from being lost and forgotten.

– Fanfare

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro Moderato 06:36
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro Moderato
    Duration
    06:36
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Ernst Ottensamer, Stepan Turnovsky
    Ensemble
    Academy of London
    Conductor
    Richard Stamp
  2. 2 II. Andante 03:26
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    03:26
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Ernst Ottensamer, Stepan Turnovsky
    Ensemble
    Academy of London
    Conductor
    Richard Stamp
  3. 3 III. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo - Tempo Primo 09:27
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo - Tempo Primo
    Duration
    09:27
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Ernst Ottensamer, Stepan Turnovsky
    Ensemble
    Academy of London
    Conductor
    Richard Stamp
  4. 4 Capriccio: Prelude for String Sextet, TrV 279a (version for string orchestra) 11:13
    Track
    4
    Title
    Capriccio: Prelude for String Sextet, TrV 279a (version for string orchestra)
    Duration
    11:13
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Peter Manning, Pauline Lowbury, Peter Lale, Deborah Lander, Martin Loveday, Robert Bailey
  5. 5 I. Slowly and expressively - 09:27
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Slowly and expressively -
    Duration
    09:27
    Composer
    Aaron Copland
    Performer
    Ernst Ottensamer
    Ensemble
    Royal Northern Sinfonia
    Conductor
    Richard Stamp
  6. 6 II. Rather fast 08:32
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Rather fast
    Duration
    08:32
    Composer
    Aaron Copland
    Performer
    Ernst Ottensamer
    Ensemble
    Royal Northern Sinfonia
    Conductor
    Richard Stamp
  7. 7 I. Very Slowly 03:12
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Very Slowly
    Duration
    03:12
    Composer
    Aaron Copland
    Ensemble
    Royal Northern Sinfonia
    Conductor
    Richard Stamp
  8. 8 II. Allegro 02:57
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Allegro
    Duration
    02:57
    Composer
    Aaron Copland
    Ensemble
    Royal Northern Sinfonia
    Conductor
    Richard Stamp
  9. 9 III. Moderato 04:02
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Moderato
    Duration
    04:02
    Composer
    Aaron Copland
    Ensemble
    Royal Northern Sinfonia
    Conductor
    Richard Stamp
  10. 10 IV. Quite Fast 03:43
    Track
    10
    Title
    IV. Quite Fast
    Duration
    03:43
    Composer
    Aaron Copland
    Ensemble
    Royal Northern Sinfonia
    Conductor
    Richard Stamp
  11. 11 V. Still Faster 04:03
    Track
    11
    Title
    V. Still Faster
    Duration
    04:03
    Composer
    Aaron Copland
    Ensemble
    Royal Northern Sinfonia
    Conductor
    Richard Stamp
  12. 12 VI. Very Slowly (As at First) 01:19
    Track
    12
    Title
    VI. Very Slowly (As at First)
    Duration
    01:19
    Composer
    Aaron Copland
    Ensemble
    Royal Northern Sinfonia
    Conductor
    Richard Stamp
  13. 13 VII. Calm and Flowing 03:17
    Track
    13
    Title
    VII. Calm and Flowing
    Duration
    03:17
    Composer
    Aaron Copland
    Ensemble
    Royal Northern Sinfonia
    Conductor
    Richard Stamp
  14. 14 VIII. Moderate. Coda 03:51
    Track
    14
    Title
    VIII. Moderate. Coda
    Duration
    03:51
    Composer
    Aaron Copland
    Ensemble
    Royal Northern Sinfonia
    Conductor
    Richard Stamp