Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 / Dausgaard, Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Details
- Composer
- Mendelssohn, Felix
- Artist
- Dausgaard
- Format
- SACD
- Label
- BIS
- Released
- Dec 03, 2021
- Catalog #
- BIS-2469
- UPC
- 7318599924694
About
Having begun their collaboration in 1997, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and its conductor laureate Thomas Dausgaard have developed an unusually tight partnership. Nowhere is this demonstrated more clearly than in their cycles of the symphonies of Schumann, Schubert and, most recently, Brahms – performances which have been characterized by reviewers as variously ‘fresh’, ‘vivid’, ‘transparent’ and ‘invigorating’. Of Mendelssohn the team has previously recorded the incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a release described as ‘capturing Mendelssohn’s inimitable spirit’ on the website Crescendo. The same disc included The Hebrides, and now the SCO and Dausgaard return to Scotland, with Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ Symphony. This was begun in 1829, after a stay in London during which the composer conducted his Symphony No. 1, also included on this disc. Mendelssohn’s imagination was often fired by impressions from nature, and Scotland was the Romantic landscape par excellence, celebrated for its rugged Highland scenery and melancholy tunes. ‘I think that today I found the beginning of my ‘Scottish’ Symphony’, he wrote to his parents after a visit to the ruined chapel at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. It took more than a decade for him to complete the symphony – but ever since its first performance, in 1842, it has been a staple of the symphonic repertoire.
REVIEW:
With the 38-member Swedish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Thomas Dausgaard here offers an ensemble probably quite similar in size to that which played Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56. The size fits Dausgaard well, for his readings are crisp and restrained, without a lot of vibrato (as is his trademark with this group) or big emotional climaxes. Dausgaard's quick, high-tension approach works well here. BIS contributes fine engineering from the Örebro Concert House in this fresh Mendelssohn release.
-- AllMusic.com (James Manheim)
Tracklist 8 tracks
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1 I. Allegro di molto 09:31
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Allegro di molto
- Duration
- 09:31
- Composer
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Ensemble
- Svenska Kammarorkestern
- Conductor
- Thomas Dausgaard
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2 II. Andante 05:53
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Andante
- Duration
- 05:53
- Composer
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Ensemble
- Svenska Kammarorkestern
- Conductor
- Thomas Dausgaard
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3 III. Menuetto: Allegro molto 05:57
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Menuetto: Allegro molto
- Duration
- 05:57
- Composer
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Ensemble
- Svenska Kammarorkestern
- Conductor
- Thomas Dausgaard
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4 IV. Allegro con fuoco 07:52
- Track
- 4
- Title
- IV. Allegro con fuoco
- Duration
- 07:52
- Composer
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Ensemble
- Svenska Kammarorkestern
- Conductor
- Thomas Dausgaard
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5 I. Andante con moto - Allegro un poco agitato - Assai animato - 14:26
- Track
- 5
- Title
- I. Andante con moto - Allegro un poco agitato - Assai animato -
- Duration
- 14:26
- Composer
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Ensemble
- Svenska Kammarorkestern
- Conductor
- Thomas Dausgaard
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6 II. Vivace non troppo - 04:21
- Track
- 6
- Title
- II. Vivace non troppo -
- Duration
- 04:21
- Composer
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Ensemble
- Svenska Kammarorkestern
- Conductor
- Thomas Dausgaard
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7 III. Adagio - 08:46
- Track
- 7
- Title
- III. Adagio -
- Duration
- 08:46
- Composer
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Ensemble
- Svenska Kammarorkestern
- Conductor
- Thomas Dausgaard
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8 IV. Allegro vivacissimo - Allegro maestoso assai 08:35
- Track
- 8
- Title
- IV. Allegro vivacissimo - Allegro maestoso assai
- Duration
- 08:35
- Composer
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Ensemble
- Svenska Kammarorkestern
- Conductor
- Thomas Dausgaard